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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mark Helprin's got a new book out. "In Sunlight and in Shadow" lands on shelves this week. The novel is his first return to New York City since "Winter's Tale." In this UNCUT interview, Helprin talks with Jim Fleming about the story and the city.
Mary Karr's latest memoir is called "Lit" and chronicles her alcoholism and alcoholic family.
Orville Schell tells Jim Fleming that Westerners have always romanticized Tibet. He’s observed it for years and concedes that even under Chinese domination, Tibet remains a unique and entrancing place.
Massillon, Ohio is obsessed with the town’s high school team, the Tigers. Kenneth Carlson was a Tiger and made a documentary film called “Go Tigers!”
Writer and writing coach Natalie Goldberg tells Anne Strainchamps how two of the most important men in her life - her father and her Zen master – failed her.
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.
In his last few years, Sacks revealed more details about his own life. One of the most remarkable revelations was his extensive use of LSD and other hallucinogens in the ‘60s. He tells Steve Paulson that psychedelics nearly killed him, but they also opened his mind to new ways of seeing the world.
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