Julia Mickenberg tells Steve that some of the best known children's book writers were longtime political radicals.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and host of public radio and television travel shows.
Jon Ronson talks about the renaissance of public shaming that's happening online.
John Balaban performed alternative service in Vietnam during the war there. While helping children injured in the fighting, he grew to love the traditional sung poetry of rural Vietnam.
Rebecca A. Demarest brings us this story of flight in a remote island community.
Linda Greenlaw tells Anne Strainchamps that fishing for lobsters is mostly a matter of hard work and persistence, and that for the fishermen, lobster is cheap eating.
Novelist Jane Smiley tells Jim Fleming Dickens had extraordinary energy and vitality, and by writing sympathetically about the poor and working class, he changed English literature forever.
Laurie King has written a series of novels featuring Mary Russell, a young woman who becomes Sherlock Holmes' partner and later his wife.
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