Azar Nafisi tells Steve Paulson about her weekly secret meetings with students to read forbidden Western literature.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Benjamin Reiss tells Steve Paulson how P.T. Barnum got his start: exhibiting an elderly Black woman who claimed to be 161 years old and George Washington’s nanny.
An algorithm might not be able to spit out a chart-topping song —at least not yet—but it might be able to help you write a best-selling novel.
University of Wisconsin historian Florencia Mallon talks about Chilean singer Victor Jara - one of the thousands of Chileans rounded up during the coup and executed.
Deb Olin Unferth was swept up in the 80's revolution in Central American out of love.
Christine Wicker tells Anne Strainchamps about the time she spent with people who practice Hoodoo and other forms of magic.
Breaking Bad actor Bob Odenkirk talks about the differences between writing comedy and performing it, his favorite moment as a writer, and comedy as an act of destruction.
B.J. Novak's Dangerous Idea? The artist Christo designing a roller coaster inspired by life.
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