Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jonah Lehrer talks about his new book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works."
Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."
Michael Palma is the translator of the new Norton edition of Dante's "Inferno." He reads passages from it and talks with Jim Fleming about this literary classic.
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
Author of "Farm City" faces a drawback to her urban farm dream in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."
Jimmy Palmieri talks with Anne Strainchamps about living with intractable pain. Palmieri describes his life and explains how he became a chef in spite of his illness.
Joyce Carol Oates talks with Jim Fleming about some of the stories in her book “Faithless: Tales of Transgression.”
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