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Jane Scott, recently retired as the rock critic of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, talks about meeting Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney, and not meeting Elvis.
We meet the Surfing Rabbi. Nachum Shifren tells Anne Strainchamps about the connection between surfing and mysticism.
Jeffrey Eugenides won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “Middlesex.” He tells Steve Paulson why he chose to use a hermaphrodite as his narrator.
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.
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.
Phyllis Curott is a Wiccan high priestess or a practicing witch. She talks about what Wicca is all about and talks about casting spells for practical purposes.
Less than 30 percent of Americans have filled out an advanced directive for end-of-life care, but 90 percent of the people in La Crosse, Wisconsin have one. Rehman Tungekar reports on Gundersen Health's remarkable effort to get an entire city talking about death and dying.
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