Journalist Marc Cooper tells Jim Fleming that Las Vegas has its own integrity in that all that matters there is money and the city is completely honest about that.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.
Novelist Mary Gordon used to bristle at the label "Catholic writer," but she's made peace with it now.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
How will we react, the day we hear the news that scientists have found life on another planet? Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has dreamed up many first contact scenarios. His classic science fiction novel, "Ender's Game" is all about the consequences of a first contact gone badly wrong. He's just published a long-awaited sequel.
Joe Keenan is a novelist. He reads from his latest - "My Lucky Star" - and talks about the story with Steve Paulson.
Michael Reilly recorded an extraordinary CD called "Como Now: The Voices of Panola County, Mississippi."
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