Max Decharne can tell you lots of things no one will understand any more. He's a "solid pigeon" and "a bit of a fly thing," as he tells Steve Paulson.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Keith recalls his nomadic life with his divorced, alcoholic father. He never had enough to eat, and got into trouble, but decided who he didn’t want to be.
Joshua Ferris talks about his novel, "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour," which made the longlist for The Man Booker Prize.
Mike Hoyt is Executive Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He encouraged his staff to question embedded reporters about the embed system and the war.
Laney Salisbury talks about the 1925 dogsled relay that brought diphtheria anti-serum to ice-bound Nome, Alaska which was facing an epidemic in the dead of winter. Dogsleds were the only way in and the whole nation followed their perilous journey by telegraph.
Rick Moranis has had a successful career as an actor, comedian and writer. He's appeared in the films "Ghostbusters," and "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." He was also a cast member of the long running sketch comedy television series "SCTV."
Australian Les Murray is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest living poet in English today.
Some of the country's leading neuro-biologists are collaborating with Buddhist monks in an effort to understand the effects of meditation on the mind and the brain.
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