When a loved one dies, most of us turn to a professional, someone like Caitlin Doughty. She's a licensed mortician, death activist, and creator of the popular webseries "Ask A Mortician". In this interview, she talks about what happens when a body is prepared for burial.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Sterritt tells Steve Paulson about beatnik filmmaker Bruce Conner, the father of the music video and creator of a style of video montage that prefigures today's upcycling movement.
Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books. There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."
Charles Hartman collaborated with his computer to write poetry. He describes his experience in the book “Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry.”
In all this talk about the future, we should probably remember that the past repeats itself.
That’s one themes that runs through “Children of the Days,” the latest book from the lauded Latin American author, Eduardo Galeano.
You can also listen to the extended version of Steve's conversation with him.
In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents. He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.
A final reflection on time from 92 year old writer and former book editor Diana Athill.
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