Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s one of Manhattan's newest parks. In the summer, it's full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik LaFarge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Neil Innes wrote and sang the tunes for The Rutles, who were Eric Idle’s parody of The Beatles.
When President Obama took office, the Democratic Party was riding high, and the Republican Party, some thought, was on its way out. No one paid much attention to the Tea Party. Times have changed.
John Haught believes these so called "new atheists" simply don't measure up to the old athiests like Nietzsche and Camus.
Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale." It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder” was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years.
Steve Paulson presents a profile of the late writer Noel Perrin, best known for his essays on rural life.
Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, like many returning Iraq War veterans, struggled alone with his PTSD. Eventually he got help and made a film called "Now, After."
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