Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Gilmour has written a biography of the great British writer Rudyard Kipling. Gilmour tells Anne Strainchamps that Kipling’s range is unrivaled.
Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American and the author of “Aloft.” He reads a bit from the novel.
Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.
Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
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.
Doug Gordon profiles Cole’s notes, the Canadian inspiration for America’s CliffsNotes.
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