Nick Flynn is the author of a memoir of his complex relationship with his father, who showed up as a client at the homeless shelter where Nick was working.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nobody writes a dystopia quite the way Margaret Atwood does. In this EXTENDED conversation about MaddAddam - and a whole lot more - Atwood talks about utopia and dystopia, and the inherent optimism of all authors.
MD and best-selling novelist Michael Crichton talks with Jim Fleming about the ethical problems he envisions with permitting patents on human DNA.
John Callahan is a C5-6 quadriplegic. With only limited arm movement, he’s become a successful cartoonist. Callahan explains why he doesn’t shy away from outrageous cartoons.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Fleming talk about television in the novels of writers Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
Janet Cardiff - and her partner George Bures Miller - have created sound, video and installation works that have delighted, seduced, entranced and shaken audiences around the globe. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Cardiff talks with Anne Strainchamps about art and wonder.
Jorge Drexler is the first person from Uruguay to win an Academy Award, for the song "Al Otro Lado del Rio," which is featured in the film, "The Motorcycle Diaries."
Journalist Michael Wolfe tells Jim Fleming why Islam - Wolfe’s chosen religion - is entirely compatible with American values.
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