Natasha Trethewey reads Pilgrimage.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Julian Rubinstein tells the story of Attila Ambrus, the man who escaped Romania for Hungary and became the Robin Hood of Eastern Europe.
In constructing his history of non-violence, Mark Kurlansky looks at history with a revisionist's eye and tells Steve Paulson that WWII might not have been necessary.
Peter Larson is a professional paleontologist and commercial fossil hunter. His book is “Rex Appeal: The Story of Sue, the Dinosaur that Changed Science, the Law and My Life.”
Nick Hitchon is one of the participants in Michael Apted's Seven Up series of documentaries that checks in on the lives of ordinary people every seven years.
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
Historian Jim Cullen talks with Jim Fleming about the various versions of the American Dream: freedom, equality, upward mobility, home ownership and the good life.
Captain John Dalby runs a company called Marine Risk Management that out-pirates the pirates and reclaims ships for their rightful owners.
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