Richard Price has a hit with his novel "Lush Life." It's a crime story, but Price says his book has nothing to do with detective fiction or any other genre.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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MiRi Park is the defending 2004 U.S. and World air guitar champion. She performs for us and tells Steve Paulson what made her the champ.
Jessica Queller tells Anne Strainchamps why she decided to have a double mastectomy after she tested positive for the breast cancer gene and her mother died of ovarian cancer.
Jody Lewen is the executive director of the Prison University Project, a degree-granting program for the inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California. She's seen first hand the transformative power of knowledge and education and thinks the most important feature of higher education should be accessibility.
Poet Lisa Russ Spaar tells Jim about her book “Acquainted with the Night” - an anthology of verse about insomnia, or written by insomniacs.
Novelist Peter Carey talks about the trip he describes in his book “Wrong about Japan: A Father’s Journey with His Son.” Carey took his then 12 year old son Charley to meet directors of Japanese anime films and creators of manga comics
John Nichols tells Jim Fleming that the new anti-terrorism laws are endangering civil liberties. He says Congress is depriving the country of the open policy discussion a democracy needs.
Lyle Victor Albert is a playwright who’s gotten the most attention for his one-man show “Scraping the Surface,” which recounts his experiences with cerebral palsy.
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