Harriet Brown reads an essay describing her experience discovering her daughter had anorexia.
Harriet Brown reads an essay describing her experience discovering her daughter had anorexia.
"Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini's got a new book out. "And the Mountains Echoed" is a tale of love that spans the globe, from Afghanistan to America to Greece. In this UNCUT interview he talks about the book and the nations through which its tale weaves.
Gioia Timpanelli uses her poetic sensibility to write prose novels.
Geneva Handy Southall tells Jim Fleming about Blind Tom, a nineteenth century American prodigy who could reproduce any sound he heard.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht states Immanuel Kant's concept of Beauty is useful when applied to the world of sports, and that such Beauty approaches the sacred.
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman talks about her book, "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking."