Chuck Klosterman tells Steve Paulson why Phoenix Suns basketball player Steve Nash is associated with Marxism, and how he picks subjects to write about.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Philosopher Daniel Dennett tells Steve Paulson why he finds ignorance of evolutionary biology so appalling.
Charles Limb is a surgeon and musician who researches the way creativity works in the brain. He puts jazz musicians inside an fMRI to find out what the brain does during musical improvisation.
Watch Charles Limb's TED Talk here
Daniel Handler wrote "A Series of Unfortunate Events" under the pen name of Lemony Snicket.
David Blight tells Jim Fleming that Americans on both sides played a role in whitewashing the history of the Civil War, in favor of a more unified nation.
Ben Greenman is the author of a book called “Superbad: Stories and Pieces.” One of the stories it contains is called “Blurbs” which is nothing but a collection of blurbs.
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.
Novelist Michel Faber recommends one of his favorite books: "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," by Kurt Vonnegut.
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