In 1999 writer Leif Ueland was invited to ride the Playboy bus as it cris-crossed America in search of “Miss Millennium.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Louis de Bernieres tells Jim Fleming about the climate of religious toleration that marked the Ottoman Empire.
Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
Rachel Cohen tells Steve Paulson that Ulysses S. Grant owed his publishing success to Mark Twain, and many other unlikely connection stories.
We meet the Surfing Rabbi. Nachum Shifren tells Anne Strainchamps about the connection between surfing and mysticism.
Karen Joy Fowler won the PEN/Faulkner Award for best fiction for her novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves." Based on a true story, it’s the remarkable tale of two girls raised as sisters, until one is removed from the family. The twist is that one sister is a chimpanzee.
Karen Armstrong is one of the world's best-known writers on religion, but her own spiritual path hasn't been easy. She tells us why she joined a convent and then left - and how she later came to appreciate religious texts.
Nicholas Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.
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