Mary Sweeney was producer, editor and co-writer of “The Straight Story.” The film concerned an elderly man’s cross country journey on a riding mower and was directed by David Lynch.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending" won the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Barnes talks with Steve Paulson about the complications of memory, aging and moral reckoning.
In this UNCUT interview, M.E. Thomas talks with Anne about her book, "Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight."
Michael Streissguth met Johnny Cash and talks with Jim Fleming about the man and his music and what prompted him to compile his book.
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood talks with Steve Paulson about her dystopian science fiction book, “Oryx and Crake.”
Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
Lieutenant Shannon Kilkoyne talks about her experience as a female soldier in Iraq.
Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.
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