Indian film-maker Mira Nair talks with Jim Fleming about being a woman director, and combining stories from East and West.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Mark Salzman talks about his experience teaching creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a detention center for L.A.’s most serious young offenders.
In this EXTENDED interview, Adam Mansbach talks about his new novel, "Rage is Back."
Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
Kirsten Bakis first wrote her story of biomechanically-enhanced, hyper-intelligent dogs 20 years ago, and it’s been a cult favorite ever since. So why create a post-modern Frankenstein story with dogs at the heart of the tale?
In his last few years, Sacks revealed more details about his own life. One of the most remarkable revelations was his extensive use of LSD and other hallucinogens in the ‘60s. He tells Steve Paulson that psychedelics nearly killed him, but they also opened his mind to new ways of seeing the world.
John Haught believes these so called "new atheists" simply don't measure up to the old athiests like Nietzsche and Camus.
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