Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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So maybe you're not going to be the next Richard Pryor.
Even if you don't get many more laughs, you can laugh more. Katie West tells us how.
Lupe Fiasco is a devout Muslim whose album "Food and Liquor" went to number one of the rap album charts and won three Grammy Nominations.
Historian Jeremi Suri gives a new take on the sixties. Suri says national leaders began to cooperate with each other because none of them could communicate with the youth at home.
Rolling Stone India has called Karsh Kale one of "the high priests of electro." He's a pioneer of the Asian Underground and top DJ at clubs around the world, from Ibiza to New York. He tells Charles Monroe-Kane about his lifelong journey to blend his two cultures: Indian and American.
Poet Anja Sieger, who often writes under the pen name Notanja, is the current Narrator-in-Residence at the storied Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. Her writing implement of choice? A vintage typewriter.Hear the interview as well as the bonus reading of a poem that she wrote on-site for producer Seth Jovaag's daughter, Lydia.
Mark Haddon is the author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Haddon narrates the story from the point of view of his hero, who is a fifteen year old boy with Asperger Syndrome.
Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann's Dangerous Idea? To be better adjusted, change the way you think about thinking.
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