Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp tells Jim Fleming that sports are good for kids and that all kids need something to be passionate about.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kevin Murphy (formerly of “Mystery Science Fiction 3000") decided to see a movie a day for a year. He chronicles his experience in a book called “A Year at the Movies.”
Pattie Boyd was a young model in London when she met and married George Harrison. Eric Clapton courted her while she was still married to Harrison, and both of them wrote songs for her.
Can you learn to be more creative? You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable." In this EXTENDED interview, she tells Anne Strainchamps how to unleash our hidden muse.
Nora Guthrie is folk singer Woody Guthrie’s daughter and runs the Woody Guthrie Archives. Elizabeth Partridge is the author of “This Land Was Made for You and Me,” Guthrie’s biography.
Lewis Hyde is the author of the acclaimed "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art." He talks with Steve Paulson about the meaning of the word "trickster."
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun have been photographing life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 30 years. They talk about the conditions in the prison - nicknamed Angola, for the plantation that was formerly on the site - and how they've changed over time. When they see the inmates working in the fields, they say, it looks a lot like slavery.
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