Feminist Naomi Wolf tells Anne Strainchamps that common obstetrical practices make things easier for the hospital, not the mother and baby, and she explains why many post-feminist women are shocked by the demands of early motherhood.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Orhan Pamuk is Turkey’s most famous writer and a cultural ambassador for Turkey around the world.
Julia Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing.
Mitch Horowitz tells Anne Strainchamps that belief in the occult is as old as the colonies and that spiritualism was America's first great religious export.
Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking. She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.
Nicholson Baker talks about his new novel, "House of Holes: A Book of Raunch," which is set in a sexual theme park.
Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes" page on Simon and Schuster's website
Peter Doyle is the author of "Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960."
Paul Ekman tells Jim Fleming about different kinds of lies, and the physical signs that signal deceit.
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