Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Leonard Steinhorn tells Jim Fleming that Boomer Bashing is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and that it's nothing new.
Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.
Graphic war photos can be very powerful, but they often elicit complicated and unforeseen reactions among viewers.
British journalist Jay Griffiths talks with Jim Fleming about the ways different cultures around the world think about time. Her book is “A Sideways Look at Time.”
Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."
The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies. Risk takers. But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become the lens that lets us see the world. Here photojournalist Brendan Bannon talks about finding beauty in the midst of suffering and about a photo he took at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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