Australian Les Murray is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest living poet in English today.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Imagine living an entire year without money. And I mean no money. No cash. No credit cards. Nothing. Where do you live? What do you eat? How do you wash? What do you do?
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
A ghost story from listener Jonathan Blyth, called "You Are What You Eat."
Psychologist Robert Karen, author of “The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection,” tells Jim Fleming that forcing kids to apologize when they’re not really sorry is a bad idea.
Back in 1969, Marlantes was dropped in the middle of a jungle in Vietnam - at the age of 23, put in charge of the lives of 40 other young men. He was not psychologically or spiritually prepared for that or for what came after the war.
Rae Armantrout believes that there is one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
How will we react, the day we hear the news that scientists have found life on another planet? Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has dreamed up many first contact scenarios. His classic science fiction novel, "Ender's Game" is all about the consequences of a first contact gone badly wrong. He's just published a long-awaited sequel.
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