Lola Pashalinski and Linda Chapman are actresses who wrote and perform a play called “Gertrude and Alice.” They tell Steve Paulson about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
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Ned Rorem tells Jim Fleming that the world of classical music is all about money today and that performers seem to matter even more than the music.
John Updike talks with Steve Paulson about the business of being interviewed. Updike is skittish about giving interviews, but often finds himself saying more than he’d planned once he gets going.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Roald Hoffmann won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but he’s also a poet. He thinks the two disciplines have a lot in common, and reads a couple of poems.
Kay Redfield Jamison tells Jim Fleming that suicide is epidemic in our society and usually associated with a major mental illness.
Matthew Johnson founded Far Possum Records to preserve the Delta and Hill Country blues he loves. Now he produces recordings which feature hip-hop and techno style re-mixes of his classic recordings.
Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Today, Maria is active with a group called "Free the Slaves."
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