Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Les Blank is a much admired documentary film-maker. His subjects have included Polka music, gap-toothed women, and bluesman Lightning Hopkins.
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
Novelist Mary Gordon used to bristle at the label "Catholic writer," but she's made peace with it now.
Redmond O’Hanlon is travel writer who’s braved the Congo, Borneo and the Amazon. This time around, he tries his luck on a trawler in the icy Atlantic in dangerous waters.
Peter French tells Anne Strainchamps the ancient Greeks thought revenge was a good thing, and analyzes the vengeance scenario of Clint Eastwood’s film “Unforgiven.”
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
Michael Benson is a film-maker who’s compiled an extraordinary book of still photographs. Lawrence Weschler wrote the book’s Afterward.
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