James Frey is the author of “A Million Little Pieces,” a harrowing memoir of his time at an alcohol and drug treatment facility.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Adam Leith Gollner talks about his book, "The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever."
Jack Abramoff. He’s hardly a murderer. But to many in the Beltline, he’s the devil incarnate.
Historian James Tobin is the author of “To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight.” He says that the Wrights started with gliders and were competing with the Smithsonian to build the first motorized flying machine.
Ira Glass is the host of the public radio program This American Life. He tells Steve Paulson what makes a story work on the radio and plays several examples.
Writer (and gardener) Jamaica Kincaid tells Steve Paulson how she got into gardening, why she’s driven to collect certain species, and why she loves so many British plants.
Britain’s best-selling mystery writer, Ian Rankin, talks about his character, Inspector John Rebus. He explains what Edinburgh is really like, and how Scotland has been affected by world events like the air crash at Lockerbie.
Renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones stopped dancing in his 50s - and recently, did something radical. He created a dance based on John Cage's ideas about chance and randomness. He felt compelled to reinvent his career at this stage of his life.
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