<p>9/11 REMEMBERED: Philippe Petit spent years planning his illegal 1974 performance at the World Trade Center where he tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers. Petit looks back at the event and talks about what the destruction of the Towers meant for him.</p>
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Journalist Ken Wiwa tells Steve Paulson about his father's protest against the influence of oil money in Nigeria, and what it was like to grow up in his dominating presence.
Phil Toledano was worried about the future. So he decided to look it in the face. He took a DNA test and hired a special effects makeup artist to help him become different versions of his future self. Then he staged photos. They're the subject of a new book, MAYBE, and a new film.
Public Radio veteran producer Jay Allison has a new venture - a website called Transom. He prepared this sound portrait on artists and rejection.
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
What do the three Abrahamic religions have in common about the concept of heaven?
Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
Michael Palma is the translator of the new Norton edition of Dante's "Inferno." He reads passages from it and talks with Jim Fleming about this literary classic.
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