John Landis talks about his new book, "Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Mamak Khadem came to America from Iran to finish high school. She began to sing Persian music to stay connected to her homeland.
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."
Mikael Niemi is the author of “Popular Music from Vittula,” the single best-selling book in Swedish history.
Luis Alberto Urrea tells Jim Fleming about the business of smuggling illegal aliens across the Arizona desert and the tremendous mortality rate of this dangerous passage.
Kevin Powers has spent the last decade reflecting on his experiences as a machine gunner in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. He talks about his new poetry collection "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting."
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