Listen to some of the voices from the Occupy Wall Street protest at 60 Wall Street in New York.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rebecca Goldstein explains how Spinoza envisioned God and why his conception appealed to later scientists like Einstein.
Jeanne Birdsall began writing at age 41. Her first novel became an instant classic.
Robert and Ellen Kaplan wrote “The Art of the Infinite.” They talk about it with Jim Fleming.
This week, we're remembering the British mystery writer P.D. James, who died recently at the age of 94. James wrote some of the most widely admired literary crime fiction of the last century, and was the creator of one of the most beloved fictional detectives, Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh. Steve Paulson spoke with P.D. James about her life of writing crime fiction in 2000.
Richard Halpern talks with Jim Fleming about the sexual sub-text in Norman Rockwell’s work
Jill Gusman is a chef and the author of “Vegetables from the Sea: Everyday Cooking with Sea Greens.” She gives Anne Strainchamps some of her favorite seaweed recipes.
Novelists have always mined their own lives for inspiration. But no ever's gone quite as far as Karl Ove Knausgaard. People call him the Norwegian Proust. He recently came out with the sixth volume of his autobiographical novel, "My Struggle." What's remarkable about Knausgaard is not just that he's telling the story of his life as a novel. It's the incredible level of detail.
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