Poet Frances Richey calls her latest collection "The Warrior – A Mother's Story of a Son at War."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The Silk Road was once the great meeting place between the East and the West - a network of ancient trading routes winding through China and India, across Central Asia and Iran to the Mediterranean.
Brenda Peterson talks with Jim Fleming and reads several selections from “The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World”.
David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
Film critic & scholar Emanuel Levy grew up on the movies. In Israel they had no television and so his parents would take him to the movies once or twice a week.
Charles Baxter and Richard Bausch are both successful American writers and good friends. They talk with Steve Paulson about the pitfalls and perils of doing book tours.
No one expected the latest inspiration: "Ed Gein: The Musical."
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."
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