New York Times writer went to Stockholm to track down the back story of the Millennium series and its author who died suddenly.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.
Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
Bjorn Turmann was born and raised in Vancouver, but has lived in Asia since 1993 ...
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
We re-examine the myth of Robert Johnson. The most famous blues singer of them all died at the age of 27 after recording only 29 songs. Today he's idolized, but Elijah Wald says that may be for the wrong reasons.
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