Philosopher Judith Butler took a rigorous look at gender in her 1990 book, “Gender Trouble.” In this EXTENDED conversation, Steve asks her - with transexual and gender queer people more visible than ever - what can we say about the state of gender in North America?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We meet Pete Daly, an engineer with recurrent melanoma who talks about living with cancer.
Norman George wrote and stars in “Poe Alone” - a play set during the writer’s last public lecture.
Leonard Zwilling tells Jim Fleming about boxing’s impact on the English language. It’s yielded such words and phrases as fan, throw in the towel, and up to scratch.
Jay Parini talks with Jim Fleming about the power of poetry and how it especially empowers young people in troubled times.
Classical pianist Leon Fleisher was sidelined for many years by a medical condition that crippled his right hand.
Lorrie Moore has a new collection of short stories. She tells Steve Paulson that life is filled with absurdity; ghost stories are great fodder for fiction; and North America now owns the short story.
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.
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