Novelist Jacqueline Mitchard was one of the judges for the 2002 National Book Awards. She talks about the experience.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Buddhist Chaplain Steve Spiro shares some resources for preparing to die consciously, and to help others do the same. It includes the Advance Directive for Conscious Dying and a guided meditation on death.
Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk says she's recently heard students demand trigger warnings before her lectures on rape, or ask that she not talk about the subject at all. She tells Steve Paulson that it’s more important than ever to teach students about rape law, because when it comes to sex, the line between what’s legal and what’s criminal is rapidly shifting.
Could the Islamic Jihad forge an alliance with the Aryan Nations? James Jones is an authority on religious terrorism; he says militant religious groups are beginning to collaborate.
Howie MIller uses humor to change the stereotypes of Native Americans.
Jack Vitek tells Anne Strainchamps that Generoso Pope was inspired by people's fascination with the gruesome.
Writer Leslie Jamison believes critics are too quick to dismiss sentimentality in fiction. She tells producer Sara Nics how even trashy movies can offer a route to better self-understanding.
James Gleick's biography of the man who invented gravity, calculus and celestial mechanics, also reveals that Newton was the pre-eminent alchemist of his age.
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