Jonathan Nossiter directed a documentary film called "Mondovino" in which he talks with people all over the world who make and sell wine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Merge is a quartet that combines poetry with jazz music. Cassandra Cleghorn and Erik Lawrence talk with Jim Fleming about their art and how much they have in common with the Beats.
Anne Strainchamps talks with Robert Pinsky, 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, who reads several of the poems people have been sending him since the attacks.
Stand-up comic Marc Maron compiled a one-man show based on his 1998 trip to Israel. The companion book is called "The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah." Maron tells Steve Paulson about the trip and performs excerpts from the show.
Mark Helprin reads from his new book, “The Pacific and Other Stories,” and talks with Jim Fleming about what really matters in life: courage, integrity, compassion.
Jim Fleming reports how a new generation of American Buddhist teachers are adapting the Buddha's two thousand year old message for 21st century American audiences.
John Haught is a Roman Catholic theologian at Georgetown University, and the author of “God After Darwin” and “God and the New Atheism.”
Mitchell is a literary virtuoso, best known for his 2004 novel “Cloud Atlas.” He’s famous for the intricate structure of his novels - which weave together multiple narrators, interconnected stories and even different genres - all within the same book. He’s done it again with “The Bone Clocks."
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