Teacher Jane Katch tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the bizarre and violent games her students loved, and how she negotiated rules to make them safe and fun for everybody.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.
Margaret Atwood tells Steve Paulson that it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money.
British novelist Nick Hornby has written a funny book about suicide. It's called "A Long Way Down."
Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
Ernest Callenbach’s “Ecotopia” was the bible of a certain kind of environmental activist, back in the 70’s. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane was one of them. He tells us what it was like to try to live the dream.
Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement.
Steve Paulson introduces us to Mark Oliver Everett, better known as "E" - lead singer of the Eels, and son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds.
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