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Like you, we were shocked this week to hear about the death of Robin Williams. . His softer side shines through in a conversation he had with fellow comedian Marc Maron, a few years ago, on Maron’s WTF podcast.
Here is a link to Marc Maron's full conversation with Robin Williams.
Here is a link to our full conversation with Marc Moran about healing and comedy.
You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
The style of type used by the Obama campaign is called Gotham and was designed by the team of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
NPR Cultural Critic Neda Ulaby helps Jim Fleming unravel the complications of the 2006 film "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story."
What made Lincoln a great president? Was he a closet racist? We hear short interviews with Lincoln historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Orville Vernon Burton and John Stauffer.
John Matthews talks with Anne Strainchamps about the sacred pre-Christian origins of many of our secular Christmas traditions.
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