Etgar Keret tells Steve Paulson how his writing career began after a traumatic event.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Danielle Trussoni is the author of “Falling Through the Earth,” a memoir of life with her Vietnam Vet father who was a tunnel rat during the war...
Angie da Silva is a historian of black cultural life in the United States, going back to the Civil War. She collects stories, both through oral history and archival research. But she's not merely a writer. She brings these stories to life through historical reenactment, often as a slave character she's created named Lila. She says that the stories she hears and tells are too often left out of our history books.
In this interview, she talks about her work and tells the story of Mary Meachum, a free black abolitionist who worked on the Mississippi in St. Louis.
Writer and journalist Christopher Hitchens tells Steve Paulson that Orwell got it right about imperialism, fascism and communism.
Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.
Music journalist Charles R. Cross shares one of his favorite forgotten albums from The Sonics.
Chris Gray is the author of “Cyborg Citizen.” He thinks anyone whose body has been artificially altered by technology is a cyborg. Forget bionic limbs, he means even people who’ve had vaccinations!
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