Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."
Who was the real Henry David Thoreau? He wasn't exaclty an environmentalist, and "Walden" didn't simply describe his time living by the pond. Jeffrey Cramer looks at the man behind the myth.
Lauren Weedman was adopted. When she got curious about her birth parents, her adoptive mother organized a conspiracy to track them down.
Neil Innes wrote and sang the tunes for The Rutles, who were Eric Idle’s parody of The Beatles.
Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder” was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years.
Kathleen Parker believes that popular culture portrays men as incompetent fools and classrooms ignore material of interest to boys. She says intelligent women need someone else to talk to, much less to marry and raise children with, so it's in women's interest to fix this.
Jim Fleming talks with Mark Winegardner about his new book, “The Godfather Returns,” and what it was like to step into Mario Puzo’s shoes.
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