Catherine Austin Fitts was the Federal Housing Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of Housing under the first Bush administration. She managed a Wall Street investment firm and is now president of Solari, Inc.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Gary Shteyngart recommends one of his favorite reads: "Jernigan" by David Gates.
Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni talks about her traditional Indian childhood and the Bengali dream-tellers she met while researching "Queen of Dreams."
Brenda Peterson talks with Steve Paulson about the gray whale. They mate and give birth in Baja, where they exhibit “friendly whale syndrome” and migrate to Alaska.
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Father Thomas Keating tells Steve Paulson why he believes everyone ought to practice contemplative meditation.
Nature writer David Quammen has written a book called “Monster of God.” It’s about man-eating predators. Quammen says that such beasts have often been worshiped but the habitats are being encroached on by development.
Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
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