Harvey Shapiro is the editor of a collection called “Poets of World War II.” He was a gunner himself during the war.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"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.
Film-maker George Ratliff took a crew to Hell House - a Halloween haunted house produced by the Trinity Assembly of God Church in Crawford, Texas. The church’s goal is to scare teenagers away from the behavior they believe leads to eternal damnation.
Gerard Jones tells Steve Paulson, a dad himself, that children need to be able to “destroy” the things that scare them.
Gus Russo tells Jim Fleming that organized crime has attempted to influence the presidential election on several occasions and finds it significant that Frank Sinatra acted as a gangster’s daughter’s prom date.
A deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards has been used by artists to create music and write book.
Holly Black tells Anne Strainchamps what she thinks children get out of reading about magic or alternative realities.
New York Times science writer George Johnson walks Steve Paulson through the weird world of quantum mechanics and speculates about building quantum computers.
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