What’s daily life like for the U.S. president? Journalist Michael Lewis says it’s “an absurd job.” Lewis recently spent six months with President Obama. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, he talks with Steve Paulson about shadowing POTUS.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Laila Lalami tells Jim Fleming that Muslim women are trapped between two competing world views, neither of which knows how to help them or asks them what they want for themselves.
Rachel Mason of Chicago’s Second City comedy toupe, tells the story of what happened when the group toured military bases for the USO right after September 11th.
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.
Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.
The 12 people who died during the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office are on our minds this week. Most of the victims were cartoonists for the French satirical weekly. Its reporters and editor received death threats for the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. A hit-list published in an Al Qaeda magazine in 2013 also named the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Steve Paulson talked with him a few years ago, while Westergaard was living in hiding in Denmark.
Russian classical pianist Lera Auerbach discuses her lifelong fear of time with Jim Fleming.
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