Frederick Turner is the author of “1929: a Novel of the Jazz Age.” Turner reads from the book and talks with Steve Paulson about its central character, Bix Beiderbeck.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Dave Edmunds is a guitarist, singer and producer. He doesn’t have a lot of name recognition outside the industry, but has worked with stars from kd lang to Paul McCartney.
Ben Folds is fascinated with the human voice, especially in the genre of A Cappella music.
Eileen Kane revisits her experience as a young, newly married, trainee anthropologist studying the Paiute Indians of Nevada.
A young man named Black Nature is one of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars. He tells how the group formed while fleeing from the brutality and bloodshed of their country's civil war.
Carole Case wrote a history of New York’s Jockey Club, the elite cartel that controls the thoroughbred stud book.
Daniel Pauly tells Steve Paulson that technological changes in the modern fishery are wiping out vast populations of fish.
Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
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