Award-winning children's writer Geraldine McCaughrean tells Jim Fleming why she wrote a sequel to "Peter Pan" and why she's glad Peter's a brat.
Award-winning children's writer Geraldine McCaughrean tells Jim Fleming why she wrote a sequel to "Peter Pan" and why she's glad Peter's a brat.
Ann Marlow had a successful career on Wall Street – and simultaneously, a heroin habit. She never resorted to selling drugs or her body. She never hit rock bottom. After ten years, she decided to quit– and never went back. The antithesis of the junkie stereotype.
Composer and scholar Gunther Schuller talks with Steve Paulson about creativity and gives examples from both classical music and jazz.
Gayle Ross is a Cherokee storyteller whose great great great grandfather was chief of the Cherokee Nation during the infamous Trail of Tears.
Scottish Parliament member George Galloway turned the tables on the senate subcommittee who accused him of profiting from the Iraq food-for-oil scandal.
In this uncut interview, George Saunders talks to Steve Paulson about his critically-acclaimed short story collection, “Tenth of December.”
Henry Alford is the author of "How To Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)".
45 years ago, long-haired hippies and flower children from across the Midwest converged on a small Wisconsin farm for a weekend of peace, love and music including a band people were just beginning to talk about at the time - The Grateful Dead. Historian Michael Edmonds tells the story.