Former TTBOOK producer and interviewer Judith Strasser was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2005. Last summer, a tumor in her lungs attacked the nerve which controls the larynx, making it difficult, but not impossible, for her to speak.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Robert Fischell developed several implantable medical devices credited with saving tens of thousands of lives on Earth.
Novelist Mary Gordon used to bristle at the label "Catholic writer," but she's made peace with it now.
Michael Pollan tells Judith Strasser where the American front lawn came from, and what it has come to symbolize.
Michael Benson is a film-maker who’s compiled an extraordinary book of still photographs. Lawrence Weschler wrote the book’s Afterward.
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
Feminist film critic Molly Haskell talks about how Hollywood has treated the subject of writer’s block, and we hear clips from “Adaptation” and “Barton Fink.”
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