Art Spiegelman's new book is “In the Shadow of No Towers” in which he recounts his very personal response to 9-11.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cecil Brown has researched the true story that gave rise to the Stagolee myth, and explains what the song has meant to various groups, especially within the African-American community.
Essayist Beverly Lapp explains what "The Star Spangled Banner" means to her as a Mennonite.
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."
Chris Hardman runs the Antenna Theater in San Francisco. He created a piece where he gave audience members headphones and told them to go for a walk on the beach.
Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark. Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.
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.
No one expected the latest inspiration: "Ed Gein: The Musical."
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