Mikita Brottman tells Anne Strainchamps about her own accident, the legends that grow up around celebrity car crashes, and the odd thrill we get from road wrecks.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hana was a little girl killed in the Holocaust. Her suitcase came into the possession of a Japanese school teacher some 60 years later.
Russian classical pianist Lera Auerbach discuses her lifelong fear of time with Jim Fleming.
Paul Auster is a director, screen-writer and novelist. He talks about dealing with moments of doubt while writing fiction.
John Cage wrote some of the most controversial music of the 20th Century. Kenneth Silverman explores Cage's life in a groundbreaking biography called "Begin Again."
Jonathan Kozol tells Jim Fleming about the children in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx and why he’s hopeful about them in spite of the terrible problems in their community.
Odessa Piper is the chef and proprietor of L’Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin and a champion of cuisine prepared from locally available food.
Mary Roach is the author of “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.” She reads from the book and talks about observing an anatomy class.
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