Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Singer/songwriter Lisa Germano played violin for rock artist John Mellencamp. Her own album, “Geek the Girl” contains a song, “The Psychopath,” based on her experiences with an obsessed fan.
As a child, Michael Ondaatje took a long ocean voyage from Sri Lanka to England. This is the seed of his novel "The Cat's Table." He talks with Jim Fleming about the fine line between fiction and memoir.
Norman George wrote and stars in “Poe Alone” - a play set during the writer’s last public lecture.
Lucy Kaylin tells Steve Paulson that the average age of American nuns is seventy, and that many orders are folding.
John Cage wrote some of the most controversial music of the 20th Century. Kenneth Silverman explores Cage's life in a groundbreaking biography called "Begin Again."
Janice VanCleave tells Jim Fleming some of the experiments from the "Weather" volume, including how to build a cloud, and why the sky looks blue.
In this UNCUT interview, Pico Iyer tells Jim Fleming about his obsession with novelist Graham Greene. That obsession is also the subject of Iyer's new book, "The Man Within My Head".
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