Dorie Greenspan talks about Paris desserts with Jim Fleming. Her latest book is “Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City’s Best Pastry Shops.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The mash-up is one form of remix culture.
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 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.
Bill McKibben tells Anne Strainchamps that his new Honda Civic electric hybrid car gets over fifty miles to the gallon and is just as comfortable and convenient as his old Civic.
Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books. There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."
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.
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.
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