David Gessner's Dangerous Idea? Modern monkeywrenching that won't be perceived as "terrorism."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Julia Mickenberg tells Steve that some of the best known children's book writers were longtime political radicals.
Lev Grossman tells Anne Strainchmps about his experiences working at one of the great repositories of rare books.
Joe Queenan is an American married to an Englishwoman, and the author of “Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile’s Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.”
Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay are the sons of the first men to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. Both men are climbers and have made a documentary film called “Surviving Everest” for National Geographic which details their own expedition up the mountain.
Richard Reynolds tells Anne Strainchamps about his adventures as a guerrilla gardener, that is, someone who tends someone else's land for harvest.
Sacks had a particular fascination with the ways our brains can play tricks on our vision. He also reveals his own lifelong struggle to recognize the faces of other people.
Paco Underhill tells Jim Fleming what malls do to get you to buy things.
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