David Hajdu is the author of “Positively Fourth Street,” a book about Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and the folk/protest music scene of the 1960s.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books. There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."
Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.
When and how did American get so polarized? For answers, Jonathan Chait recommends reading "What Hath God Wrought," a history of American politics from 1815-1848 by the Pulitzer prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe.
Austin Grossman is the author of a novel called "Soon I Will Be Invincible" and tells Jim Fleming that he tried to respect the comics conventions in his prose.
We are part of an immensely creative universe. Cosmologist Brian Swimme and Religion scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explain.
Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.
Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
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