Rachel Cohen tells Steve Paulson that Ulysses S. Grant owed his publishing success to Mark Twain, and many other unlikely connection stories.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder” was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years.
The Carthusian order of Monks believe in complete withdrawal from the world.
At the age of 28, Chinese pianist Lang Lang has already played with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic and all of the top American orchestras.
British journalist Jay Griffiths talks with Jim Fleming about the ways different cultures around the world think about time. Her book is “A Sideways Look at Time.”
Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.
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