Matthew Clark produced a compilation CD of Chinese rock and roll. He plays excerpts for Anne Strainchamps and tells her about the various bands and the Chinese rock scene.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lizzie Gottlieb has a younger brother with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. She made a film, "Today's Man," about his abortive efforts to get a job and move out of his parents' brownstone in New York.
Joseph Kanon is the author of “The Good German.” It’s a novel about the American occupation of Berlin after WWII when American soldiers faced many of the same problems they’re seeing now in Iraq.
Michael Gates Gill was born into privilege and handed a job at the country's most prestigious advertising firm. Much to his own surprise, he went to work behind the counter at Starbucks and has never been happier.
Psychologist Justin Barett thinks most children have a natural aptitude for religious belief. He says it's not surprising that so many people believe in spirits or supernatural beings.
“The Unraveling of Mercy Louis" tells the fascinating story of a community that’s nearly torn apart following the discovery of an abandoned baby in a dumpster. A witch hunt ensures and the girls at a local high school soon begin developing mysterious twitches and tics, which quickly intensify. Eventually, the girls in the town are acting as if they’re possessed, thrashing around on the floor or grunting like animals. As strange as it all sounds, Parssinen says the book was inspired by a real episode of mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York.
Civil rights historian Philip Dray discusses how the presence of TV cameras at the trial of the men who murdered Emmett Till changed the way the country viewed lynching.
Patricia Person confesses she is a procrastinator in this audio essay.
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