Patricia Person confesses she is a procrastinator in this audio essay.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Josh Ritter is a folk-rocker who's being called the heir apparent to Dylan and Springsteen. He joins Steve Paulson in the TTBOOK studios in Madison, Wisconsin to perform a few songs and to talk about his music.
Philosopher Alva Noe has a theory about art. He says art is like philosophy, and the best art is disorienting and uncomfortable. It takes you into a space you didn't even know was there.
We've got theme parks on the brain so we're revisiting Steve's conversation with Karen Russell re. her novel, "Swamplandia!," which is set in a gator wrestling theme park.
Lorraine Johnson-Coleman tells Anne Strainchamps that cornbread is the ultimate Southern food and that Southerners can always recognize their loved ones’ fried chicken.
Journalist Peggy Orenstein tells Jim Fleming about the raw food movement. She explains why they think food should never be heated above 118 degrees.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American writing. His novel “The Feast of the Goat” deals with the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
Jim Fleming talks with Jim Wight, a vet himself, and the son of the man known to the world as James Herriot. Like his father, Jim Wight’s turned to writing.
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