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Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze

Are we ever good enough, or are we doomed to self-optimization for our entire lives?

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Michael Perry on Boutique Farming

Writer Michael Perry talks with Anne Strainchamps about his life combining writing with the new "back to the land" movement...

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Jane Hamilton on Satire & Writing

Jane Hamilton tells Anne Strainchamps the inspiration for her latest book came when she was teaching a writing workshop on a cruise ship.

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Kevin Dutton on "The Wisdom of Psychopaths"

Kevin Dutton talks about his book, "The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success."

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Merge on Jazz & Poetry

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.

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Jeanne Birdsall on "The Penderwicks on Gardam Street"

Jeanne Birdsall began writing at age 41. Her first novel became an instant classic.

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Orville Vernon Burton on "The Age of Lincoln"

Historian Orville Vernon Burton tells Jim Fleming about the parallels between Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.

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Modern Esoterica - Erik Davis

If traditional religion has lost its luster, where do you find sacred experiences?  Anthropologist Erik Davis goes looking around the edges of contemporary culture - from Burning Man and trance music to psychedelics.

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