John Cheever wrote hundreds of short stories and kept an extensive private journal, fabricated his accent and was primarily gay despite siring three children and remaining in a long marriage. We hear about his life from Blake Bailey, who wrote a biography on the great author.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Kushner tells Jim Fleming what kind of game Doom is and what makes it special.
Daniel Pink talks about the day he almost threw up on Al Gore, and gives examples of the new ways people are finding to work.
Michael Hebb is the founder of “Let’s Have Dinner and Talk About Death," a movement that encourages people to get together with friends to discuss end of life issues.
Christine Maggiore is HIV positive. She denies that HIV causes AIDS and says science is abandoning its own model of proving a theory.
Elisabet Sahtouris has no truck with Biblical creationists but thinks the standard story of evolution has major problems.
Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.
In his new book “Incognito,” David Eagleman explores what he calls “the secret lives of the brain.”
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