Burkhard Bilger tells Steve Paulson how to catch catfish with your bare hands; describes the delights of eating squirrel brains; and chronicles the exploits of some Southern marbles champions - the Rolly Holers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Deborah Scranton, director of "The War Tapes," tells Jim Fleming that she got volunteers from the New Hampshire National Guard to record their experiences in combat in Iraq for one year.
Etgar Keret tells Anne Strainchamps that he is the child of Holocaust survivors and that his work reflects life in Israel as it really is today.
Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Betty Cortina, editorial director of Latina Magazine, tells Jim Fleming that Latino-chic is more than ruffles and hoop earrings. It’s about self-expression and honoring the past.
Pianist Christopher O'Riley agrees with Duke Ellington that there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. He has a thriving career playing both classical music and his own arrangements of Elliot Smith and Radiohead.
Talking about race is fraught these days, so it took guts for Paul Beatty to write his novel "The Sellout." It's a satire about a young black man who winds up on trial at the Supreme Court. And along the way, he enslaves an old friend and re-segregates the local high school.
Chris Gray is the author of “Cyborg Citizen.” He thinks anyone whose body has been artificially altered by technology is a cyborg. Forget bionic limbs, he means even people who’ve had vaccinations!
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