Quaker writer, educator and activist Parker Palmer believes people need to listen to their inner voice in order to make the right life choices.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson talks with Jerry Huffman, a reporter and anchor for Wisconsin Public Television, about the best recent books that try to make sense of the Post Cold War World.
Larry Watson tells a story about beauty, art, obsession and betrayal in his novel “Orchard.”
Michael Ondaatje's new novel tells the tale of an eleven year old boy who traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylon to England in 1952. Michael Ondaatje traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylong to England in 1952, when he was eleven years old. In this uncut interview he tells Jim Fleming that while one story informs the other, they are not the same.
Music journalist Rob Sheffield has a new book out remembering his fascination with Duran Duran.
The question isn't "seen any good movies lately?" but instead "experienced any good paratexts lately?"
Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
Paul Stoller is an anthropologist who studied sorcery with the Songhay people in Niger. Years later he developed lymphoma and only then did he understand some of what his teacher had been trying to teach him.
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