George Saunders talks about his new short-story collection, "Tenth of December."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor talks with Steve Paulson about being a mid-Western writer and moving to New York City.
Naturalist Gretel Ehrlich tells Steve Paulson why she visited at length with Inuit people in Greenland.
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.
"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.
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman talks about her book, "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking."
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