David Carradine kept a diary during the production which has just been published under the title “The Kill Bill Diary."
David Carradine kept a diary during the production which has just been published under the title “The Kill Bill Diary."
National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett writes some of the most beautiful fiction we know about scientists. The stories in her new collection, "Archangel" explore the history of knowledge through five linked characters. After reading it, we're awfully glad she gave up biology to write fiction.
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer whose musical career was derailed by a car accident. In this episode from Israel Story, Shai Satran tells the story of how she learned to make music again.
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Rapper Baba Brinkman tells Anne Strainchamps that Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has a lot in common with the language of hip hop music.
Elisabeth Sifton is the daughter of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote the famous “Serenity Prayer.” Sifton tells Steve Paulson about the history of the Serenity Prayer.
Psychologist Drew Westen tells Jim Fleming that Democrats need to learn to sell their core issues by speaking in emotionally effective language.
Bernd Heinrich tells Steve Paulson about frogs that survive being frozen solid and bears that convert nitrogen into protein while they hibernate sleep.
Esperanza Spalding is one of the brightest young stars in jazz - except she resists being labeled a "jazz musician." In fact, her new album "Emily's D+ Evolution" sounds more like rock than jazz. When she sat down in our studio with Steve Paulson, she talked about her childhood roots in classical music before her momentous discovery of jazz improvisation.