Natasha Trethewey read Miscegenation.
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John Pollack collected well over a hundred thousand wine corks and used them to build a replica of a Viking ship which he then sailed in Portugal.
Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them.
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Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.
In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, co-produced “Beckett on Film.” He talks about the challenges of turning 19 of Samuel Beckett’s plays into films.