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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"The Angriest Man in the World", also known as "The Winnebago Man".
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
Daniel Matt tells Steve Paulson that the Big Bang Theory is science's creation myth...
Charlotte Hays is co-author of "Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral."
“Advances in resuscitation science are beginning to challenge our understanding of what death really is,” says Sam Parnia. He's the director of cardiopulmonary resuscitation research at SUNY NY. Parnia says it's now possible to bring people back to life much longer after cardiac arrest than medicine had previously thought.
David Dalton and his sister were assistants on Warhol's early Pop Art paintings when they were in their teens...
Historian and president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust tells Steve Paulson that Civil War deaths consumed the entire nation with grief and transformed America in many ways.
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