Louis Colaianni thinks anyone can be taught to speak Shakespeare. He gives Anne Strainchamps a lesson using the introduction to “Romeo and Juliet.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Joshua Ferris talks about his novel, "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour," which made the longlist for The Man Booker Prize.
Religious historian Karen Armstrong doesn’t like the either/or, good/evil dichotomy. She believes we are hard-wired to be both selfish and kind.
Martha Bayles talks with Anne Strainchamps about why we love war movies and what messages they send.
California surgeon Leonard Schlain tells Steve Paulson that ancestral women made the connection between sex and birth and the moon and discovered time.
Kendall Taylor is the author of the most complete account yet of the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Taylor tells Steve Paulson that the marriage was volatile from the beginning.
Stanford English professor Jay Fliegelman loves to collect books that have a history. He tells Jim Fleming why he loves the marginalia and battered pages of his books.
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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