John Portmann contributed to and edited the collection of essays, “In Defense of Sin.” He tells Steve Paulson why, as a child, he loved going to confession.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."
Author of "Farm City" faces a drawback to her urban farm dream in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
Paul Campos is the author of “The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health.”
Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.
Richard Fortey tells Anne Strainchamps why he’s been a life-long fan of trilobites, ancient water creatures who swarmed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
Jonathan Margolis talks with Jim Fleming about some of the innovations futurologists are predicting for us all, from ear stud cell phones to on-line vacations and cybersex.
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