Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Fleming explores Wisconsin’s Cave of the Mounds with Marcia Bjornerud, author of “Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth.”
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
Lynn Garrett tells Steve Paulson that bookstores are selling out of books on Islam and terrorism, and that there’s strong interest in books that tackle fundamental moral questions.
Michael Ruhlman is the author of “Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard.” He says that wooden boats are alive and have souls.
Mark Kurlansky talks with Jim Fleming about the long and dramatic history of salt.
David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…
. . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.
Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”
Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."
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