Orville Schell tells Jim Fleming that Westerners have always romanticized Tibet. He’s observed it for years and concedes that even under Chinese domination, Tibet remains a unique and entrancing place.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jeanine Basinger tells Anne Strainchamps how the movie studios manufactured stars from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
Richard Ranft says the oceans are teeming with noises and plays Jim Fleming a few examples from snapping shrimp to amorous haddock and walruses.
Mary Karr's latest memoir is called "Lit" and chronicles her alcoholism and alcoholic family.
Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.
Jill Fredston and her husband spend months every year rowing in the Arctic. And she tells a whale of a fish story!
While coastal dialects are being lost, new American dialects are developing all the time as American English evolves.
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