Joyce Johnson talks with Anne Strainchamps about her book and her relationship with Jack Kerouac.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Religious historian Karen Armstrong doesn’t like the either/or, good/evil dichotomy. She believes we are hard-wired to be both selfish and kind.
Nora Guthrie is folk singer Woody Guthrie’s daughter and runs the Woody Guthrie Archives. Elizabeth Partridge is the author of “This Land Was Made for You and Me,” Guthrie’s biography.
Mandaza Kandemwa is widely recognized in Southern Africa as a traditional healer.
Jeff Wiltse tells Anne Strainchamps how municipal pools have reflected the social tensions of American society, especially the racial tensions.
Pattie Boyd was a young model in London when she met and married George Harrison. Eric Clapton courted her while she was still married to Harrison, and both of them wrote songs for her.
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.
Kendall Taylor is the author of the most complete account yet of the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Taylor tells Steve Paulson that the marriage was volatile from the beginning.
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