Billie Whitelaw was Samuel Beckett’s favorite actress and appeared in his plays for over twenty years. She tells Steve Paulson she never understood the plays but thinks Beckett’s a genius.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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When and how did American get so polarized? For answers, Jonathan Chait recommends reading "What Hath God Wrought," a history of American politics from 1815-1848 by the Pulitzer prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
We are part of an immensely creative universe. Cosmologist Brian Swimme and Religion scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explain.
Austin Grossman is the author of a novel called "Soon I Will Be Invincible" and tells Jim Fleming that he tried to respect the comics conventions in his prose.
Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.
Dilshad Ali talks about reading the Christian-influenced Narnia tales to her children.
Historian and president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust tells Steve Paulson that Civil War deaths consumed the entire nation with grief and transformed America in many ways.
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