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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As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read. But McNair is concerned that we're only reading a handful of the artists available to us, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making. In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to.
When you keep hearing bad news about the earth's rising temperatures, it's hard to hold onto any hope. But maybe we're telling the wrong story. Sustainability pioneer Frances Moore Lappe says there are plenty of positive stories that offer hope.
Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.
Clayton Eshleman is a poet who’s turned his poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux in France. He talks about these drawings represent shamanic spirit journeys and rituals.
Brother Satyananda and Deborah Willoughby tell Jim Fleming that yoga is much more than an exercise program. It’s meant to be a union of body and mind.
David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
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