Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Correction: This interview refers to a survey finding that only 22% of Americans trust government at all levels. The actual survey was limited to trust in the federal government, and found that 22% of Americans trusted the government in Washington "almost always or most of the time".
We all know it's important to be involved in local government, but can political participation also be fun? Josh Lerner thinks so. He believes local governments could boost the fun factor in the political process by borrowing a few ideas from game design.
Neil Steinberg booked passage to Italy for both him and his father on his father’s old ship. He hoped it would bring them closer together. As he tells Anne Strainchamps, it didn’t.
Sometimes when musicians break the mold, they end up creating new genres. Richard Hell didn't study music as a kid, but he loved how rock and roll let him experiment with self-expression.
"The Passage" has been described as "an engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America." The author says the idea came out of a discussion with his nine-year-old daughter.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru. Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.
Linda Kauffman talks with Jim Fleming about artists who make deliberately provocative and sensational art. She feels it’s a good thing to challenge our beliefs about what can be seen.
Keith Donohue's novel is "The Stolen Child." He tells Jim Fleming the book's about a boy who's stolen by fairies and the boy who replaces him in the human world.
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