An EXTENDED interview with linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on "assholes."
Harriet Brown reads an essay describing her experience discovering her daughter had anorexia.
Henry Alford is the author of "How To Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)".
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman talks about her book, "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking."
Have you ever had something happen to you that's SO embarrassing.... you wish could forget it? Well, listen to these truly humiliating stories.
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.