Jerome Charyn tells Steve Paulson about some of the great ping-pong matches of the past and reflects on the worldwide popularity of the game.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.
Joyce Tenneson is a portrait photographer whose new book is a collection of flower photos. Her work celebrates flowers at every stage of their life cycle.
Jim Fleming explores Wisconsin’s Cave of the Mounds with Marcia Bjornerud, author of “Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth.”
Novelist Jane Hamilton remembers her old piano teacher and their battles over practicing.
Mark Kurlansky talks with Jim Fleming about the long and dramatic history of salt.
Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."
Lauren Weedman was adopted. When she got curious about her birth parents, her adoptive mother organized a conspiracy to track them down.
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