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Kathleen Norris on "Acedia and Me"

Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.

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Paul Lussier on the Real Founding Fathers

Paul Lussier is the author of “Last Refuge of Scoundrels,” a fictionalized re-telling of the American Revolution.  He tells Steve Paulson some of the dirt he dug up on the Founding Fathers.

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Michael Wood on his documentary, "Shangri-La"

Michael Wood's latest documentary film for PBS is called "Shangri-La." Wood tells Jim Fleming about his journey through the Himalayas.

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Jem Rolls on Spoken Word

Jem Rolls runs poetry cabarets and poetry slams in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Jim Cullen on the History of the American Dream

Historian Jim Cullen talks with Jim Fleming about the various versions of the American Dream: freedom, equality, upward mobility, home ownership and the good life.

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Powers of Two - Joshua Wolf Shenk

Joshua Wolf Shenk talks about his book, "Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs."

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Lone Scherfig on "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself"

Danish film director Lone Scherfig tells Steve Paulson about her new film “Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself.”

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Neda Ulaby unpacks the film "Tristram Shandy"

NPR Cultural Critic Neda Ulaby helps Jim Fleming unravel the complications of the 2006 film "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story."

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