Hana was a little girl killed in the Holocaust. Her suitcase came into the possession of a Japanese school teacher some 60 years later.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Auster is a director, screen-writer and novelist. He talks about dealing with moments of doubt while writing fiction.
Novelist Michael Ondaatje met film editor Walter Murch during the filming of Ondaatje’s Booker Prize winning “The English Patient.” Their conversations matured into a book: “The Conversation: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film.”
Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig-Nobel Prizes, says who this years winners are and that the purpose of the awards is to make people laugh, and then think.
Dr. Norman Rosenthal and Anne Strainchamps discuss several examples of how our feelings influence our bodies, and what we can do about it.
Iraq war veteran John McCary offers his essay called "The Fallen," part of the National Endowment for the Arts project, Operation Homecoming.
John Cage wrote some of the most controversial music of the 20th Century. Kenneth Silverman explores Cage's life in a groundbreaking biography called "Begin Again."
Novelist Larry Baker followed up “The Flamingo Rising” with a story called “Athens, America.” He marketed it himself, starting in the mid-West, where the book is set, and ended up selling it in grocery stores.
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