Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jane Juska was 67 when she placed a personal ad in the NY Review of Books looking for good sex with a man she liked.
Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."
Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests. She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.
Richard Marcinko is CEO of a private security firm which trains mercenaries and he candidly tells Steve Paulson about waging war and interrogating prisoners from a mercenary's point of view.
We meet Pete Daly, an engineer with recurrent melanoma who talks about living with cancer.
Singer/songwriter Lisa Germano played violin for rock artist John Mellencamp. Her own album, “Geek the Girl” contains a song, “The Psychopath,” based on her experiences with an obsessed fan.
Joe Queenan is an American married to an Englishwoman, and the author of “Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile’s Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.”
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