Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eric Morel is boxing’s flyweight World Champion. He was born in Puerto Rico but now lives and trains in Wisconsin. TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe Kane joined Morel at the gym for a day.
Bjorn Turmann was born and raised in Vancouver, but has lived in Asia since 1993 ...
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
Anthony Horowitz has written dozens of books for children, including the teen superspy series featuring Alex Rider.
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley take on the mainstream media and the political establishment.
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
Pre-Modern hunter and gatherer cultures believed that dying was a kind of trial which didn't begin until you left your physical body and entered the supernatural world, according to sociologist Allan Kellehear. In these cultures, death is not the destruction of the body, but the annihilation of the personality and its transformation into something new.
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