Michael Gates Gill told us in his first book how Starbucks saved his life. He's back with "How to Save Your Own Life" – a series of life lessons.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Najla Said is many things: actress, playwright, author. She’s also a Palestinian-Lebanese-Christian-Arab-American who grew up on New York’s Jewish Upper West Side. And she’s the daughter of the late Edward Said –the famous Palestinian intellectual and activist.
Today we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Punk. For 40 years, punk has influenced not just music, but fashion, film, art… not to mention hairstyles. So what makes punk… punk? Music journalist Legs McNeil is the guy who named it. And chronicled it. Along with Gillian McCain wrote THEE book on the history of punk. It’s an oral history called “Please Kill Me.”
With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
Music journalist Rob Sheffield has a new book out remembering his fascination with Duran Duran.
Micki McGee says Americans' social and economic history predisposes us to embrace self-improvement as a way of staying competitive in a tight job market.
Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.
Patricia Smith is an African American who's the four-time champion of the National Poetry Slam.
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