Lesley Kagen was a Milwaukee girl. But she blew off Wisconsin for the bright lights of LA, where she lived for 10 years. But despite the lures of California, something about Milwaukee kept calling her home.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In his last few years, Sacks revealed more details about his own life. One of the most remarkable revelations was his extensive use of LSD and other hallucinogens in the ‘60s. He tells Steve Paulson that psychedelics nearly killed him, but they also opened his mind to new ways of seeing the world.
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
Richard Ranft says the oceans are teeming with noises and plays Jim Fleming a few examples from snapping shrimp to amorous haddock and walruses.
Novelist Jane Hamilton remembers her old piano teacher and their battles over practicing.
Joe Kelly runs a national organization called Dads and Daughters. He gives Steve Paulson some advice for fathers whose daughters are hitting puberty.
It's flu season. While you stock up on vitamin C, zinc and herbal tea, you might also want to pick up a copy of historian Erika Janik’s brand new book, “Marketplace of the Marvelous -- The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine.”
David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…
. . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.
Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”
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