DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
Carole Case wrote a history of New York’s Jockey Club, the elite cartel that controls the thoroughbred stud book.
Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Christine Gallagher tells Steve Paulson that revenge can be a healthier response than stewing over grievances, and shares some of her favorite examples of payback.
Novelist Elinor Lipman has written an essay for the New York Times on the fine art of blurbing – writing short, pithy quotes to appear on fellow authors’ dust jackets.
How did the Coca-Cola Company become such a powerhouse? Bart Elmore's the guy to ask. He's the author of an environmental history called "Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism."
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