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Robert Coover on "A Child Again"

Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."

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Pete Best on being a Beatles Drummer

Steve Paulson talks with Pete Best who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr.

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Mike Magnuson on "Heft on Wheels"

Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.

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Linton Kwesi Johnson & Ted Kooser on Poetry

Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.

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Leonard Steinhorn on "The Greater Generation"

Leonard Steinhorn tells Jim Fleming that Boomer Bashing is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and that it's nothing new.

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Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag

Graphic war photos can be very powerful, but they often elicit complicated and unforeseen reactions among viewers.

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Norah Vincent on "Self-Made Man"

Norah Vincent spent eighteen months disguised as a man...

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Lucasta Miller on "The Bronte Myth"

Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.

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