Daniel Levitin reacts to a musical example Anne Strainchamps provides and talks about music and children's brains.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Michel Faber recommends one of his favorite books: "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," by Kurt Vonnegut.
John Cheever wrote hundreds of short stories and kept an extensive private journal, fabricated his accent and was primarily gay despite siring three children and remaining in a long marriage. We hear about his life from Blake Bailey, who wrote a biography on the great author.
Anthony Shadid won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the war in Iraq. He knows the violence of war. As he told Steve Paulson, he also knows, that when the war ends, unintended consequences follow.
Science researcher and author Clifford Pickover tells Steve Paulson that God may exist on the fringes of human perception.
David Carlyon tells Jim Fleming that Rice was once considered America’s greatest humorist. He was a talking clown, doing satiric commentary on current events.
Poet Fleda Brown reads her poem "For My Daughter's 40th Birthday."
Why has the story of Abraham and Isaac inspired generations of religious martyrs? Bruce Chilton tells us why.
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