Ayun Halliday tells Anne Strainchamps about being a young, hip Mom, and how motherhood is different from her expectations.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Douglas Wolk tells Steve Paulson why comics became such a vital medium for individual artistic expression.
Benjamin Cavell reads a bit from a story called “The Ropes” - about an injured boxer - and talks with Steve Paulson about violence and masculinity.
Joe Hill is the son of a writer you've probably heard of -- Stephen King. And Hill is following in his father's footsteps by writing the same kind of bone-chilling horror that his Dad is famous for. Hill's latest novel is called "The Fireman" and it's burning up the best-seller charts.
These days, it seems motherhood has become a struggle just to stay on top of the latest self-help trend.
Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
Bob Alper is a rabbi; Ahmed Ahmed is an actor and comedian. The two comics decided to perform together making use of their ethnicity to make people laugh.
Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.
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