Stephen Marche is the author of "How Shakespeare Changed Everything." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks Shakespeare is the most important figure in history who influenced everything from starlings to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Imagine living an entire year without money. And I mean no money. No cash. No credit cards. Nothing. Where do you live? What do you eat? How do you wash? What do you do?
Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that he found growing in a country churchyard.
Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton shares some of her favorite endings from modern literature with Steve Paulson.
Back in 1969, Marlantes was dropped in the middle of a jungle in Vietnam - at the age of 23, put in charge of the lives of 40 other young men. He was not psychologically or spiritually prepared for that or for what came after the war.
Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."
Joe Keenan is a novelist. He reads from his latest - "My Lucky Star" - and talks about the story with Steve Paulson.
Rob Walker talks with Steve Paulson about the Subservient-Chicken-dot-com web site and why it’s a new kind of advertising.
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