Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
Eddie Lenihan tells a story told to him by the foreman of a road construction crew in Ireland.
We hear a story from Elna Baker, author of “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance.”
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American and the author of “Aloft.” He reads a bit from the novel.
Dave Foreman started as a lobbyist for the Wilderness Society in the 1970s. Then he became a radical and co-founded Earth First! becoming America's most admired and notorious environmentalist.
In this EXTENDED interview, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez tells the story of a marathon facial transplantation for his patient, Richard Norris.
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to compete in the annual Turing competition, not for the most human computer, but for the "most human human."
David Hajdu is the author of “Positively Fourth Street,” a book about Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and the folk/protest music scene of the 1960s.