Claire Tomalin has written a biography of nineteenth century novelist Thomas Hardy which reveals that he thought of himself as primarily a poet.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Assman is a German film-maker who spent time with the Iranian women's National Football Team as they played their first game in decades.
Novelist Arthur Phillips is the author of "The Tragedy of Arthur." The book tells the story of a fictional character, also named Arthur Phillips, whose family finds a lost Shakespeare play.
Douglas Quin is an award-winning sound designer, naturalist and composer. His latest project is called "Fathom."
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
"True Detective" creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto recommends "Absalom, Absalom" by William Faulkner.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
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