Christopher O'Riley chats with Jim Fleming about classical music's image problem among young people and how he makes the music seem cool.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Psychiatrist Darold Treffert regards savants as "islands of genius." He talks about a lifetime of studying savant syndrome.
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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.”
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American and the author of “Aloft.” He reads a bit from the novel.
Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
David Gilmour has written a biography of the great British writer Rudyard Kipling. Gilmour tells Anne Strainchamps that Kipling’s range is unrivaled.
Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
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