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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Douglas Coupland says only twenty percent of people are hard-wired to “get” irony and the rest take everything at face value.
Carolyn McVickar Edwards reads “The Golden Earrings.” It’s one of the stories in her book “The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from around the World for the Winter Solstice.”
Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.
Cheeni Rao came from a successful Indian family and attended an elite American college. But he ended up a junkie on Chicago's South side.
Bryant Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine.
Christopher Byron tells Anne Strainchamps that the Martha Stewart public image is consistent and ubiquitous but has little to do with the real Martha Stewart.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights, tells Jim Fleming his organization hopes to protect the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.
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