Evan S. Connell is the author of eighteen books and has won numerous awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His latest book is called “Francisco Goya: A Life.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christopher O'Riley chats with Jim Fleming about classical music's image problem among young people and how he makes the music seem cool.
Chris Hardman decided to redesign the calendar, representing time and the seasons the way we experience them in the natural world.
Artist and activist Molly Crabapple believes borders are soon becoming a thing of the past.
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Journalist David Shenk says Alzheimer's an ancient illness afflicting some 5 million Americans, and that the number of cases is sure to rise dramatically as the Baby Boomers age.
Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
Dave Foreman started as a lobbyist for the Wilderness Society in the 1970s. Then he became a radical and co-founded Earth First! becoming America's most admired and notorious environmentalist.
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