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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Many people don't know that the voice of Bart Simpson is really Nancy Cartwright. She started doing voices in her early teens, and credits Daws Butler with teaching her to be an actor with her voice.
Martin Norden tells Anne Strainchamps that the disabled have been in films from the beginning, but only as stereotypes: bad disabled people get killed off, while good disabled people get cured.
Australian Les Murray is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest living poet in English today.
We hear a conversation between Steve Paulson and German historian Jessica Gienow-Hecht. They discuss why the huge casualties among German civilians have been taboo for discussion.
Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that he found growing in a country churchyard.
Melissa Coleman spent the formative years of her chilldhood roaming the lands of her family's farn in rural Maine. Melissa, her sister Heidi, and their parents, Eliot and Sue Coleman, lived off the grid, and became media darlings when the Wall Street Journal ran an article about her father. Coleman writes about that time in her memoir "This Life is in Your Hands."
Nuala O’Faolain tells Jim Fleming one of her novels is based on an adulterous affair across class lines in Ireland during the potato famine.
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