Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
David Denby of The New Yorker tells Steve Paulson that Pauline Kael was the most remarkable person he’s ever known.
Cary Sudler returns to his ancestral home to apologize to the black members of his family for the injustice of slavery.
Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
Bryandt Urstadt tells Steve Paulson about the grim future the peak oilers are already getting ready for and thinks we should all buy gold.
Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist whose book "Half of A Yellow Sun" is set during the period of civil violence surrounding the creation of Biafra.
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