Michael Pollan tells Judith Strasser where the American front lawn came from, and what it has come to symbolize.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nicholson Baker's latest novel is called "The Anthologist." Baker tells Anne Strainchamps the book's about a writer who longs to be a poet.
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
April is National Poetry Month and we’re celebrating with a collection of interviews with major American poets. Today, Charles Monroe-Kane talks with Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rae Armantrout.
Feminist film critic Molly Haskell talks about how Hollywood has treated the subject of writer’s block, and we hear clips from “Adaptation” and “Barton Fink.”
Jedediah Purdy is the author of “For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today” and “Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World.”
Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.
Physicist Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams tell Steve Paulson how humanity has moved back into the center of our myth-making.
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