TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon profiles country singer/songwriter Carlene Carter. She's the granddaughter of Maybelle Carter, and daughter of June Carter.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Frederic Spotts is the author of “Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.” Spotts says that Hitler saw himself as a painter and was forever wounded by his failure to impress the artistic establishment.
“I learned virtually nothing about mortality when I was in medical school,” Dr. Atul Gawande says. “I was terrible at knowing how to have a successful conversation with people facing terminal illness.” Gawande, author of the bestselling “Being Mortal,” is now trying to get people talking about better ways to live out the final chapter.
These days beauty’s got a complicated reputation. One professor of literature and aesthetics at Harvard is giving beauty a makeover.
Edward P. Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "The Known World." His short story collection is called "All Aunt Hagar's Children."
Bill Welden, an expert on Tolkien’s Elvish languages, talks about Elvish derivations and vocabulary and remembers his visit to the set of the “The Lord of the Rings” movie.
People have gathered together to dance for centuries. Barbara Ehrenreich says we've become so obsessed with personal happiness, we often neglect the pleasures of collective joy.
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