Jessica Queller tells Anne Strainchamps why she decided to have a double mastectomy after she tested positive for the breast cancer gene and her mother died of ovarian cancer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”
John Wenke traces the influence of “The Catcher in the Rye” on American culture from film to high profile crime.
Kaari Pitkin produces Radio Rookies, New York's Peabody Award winning radio project for teenagers. She and one of the Rookies, Jaimita Haskell, tell Jim Fleming about the project.
Every spring in Japan, people crowd under blooming cherry trees. They're signs of spring, and remembrances of life's transience.
Master gardener Sadafumi Uchiyama says the blossoms are the quintessential representation of the Japanese principle of mono no aware... beauty in the intertwining of life and death.
Ruth Ozeki's novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," is just out in paperback. Anne Strainchamps talks to Ozeki about her book, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and host of public radio and television travel shows.
Aerobatic pilot Josh Ramo is also a journalist and the author of “No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World’s Most Dangerous Sport.” He talks about the thrills and perils of pushing planes and pilots to the limits of their endurance.
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