Alison Hawthorne Deming reads "Chauvet" - her poem about the French cave with ancient art painted on its walls.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"I’m a different person when I’m in Nepal..." Jeffrey Potter has been documenting life in a village in eastern Nepal for 20 years. During a trip there in 2000, he was present for the death of a young man named Harka. In this story, he talks about how that experience that was both profound and unexplainable.
Doug Gordon profiles Anne Beatts, one of the original writers for the groundbreaking late night comedy series "Saturday Night Live".
Aaron was born female and lived the first 29 years of his life as a girl named Sarah. He then went through the hormone and surgical therapies to become male and lives now as a gay man.
Why does this teenager believe that poetry is the literary art most relevant to our lives today?
Alex Blumberg used to be a producer for This American Life. He also co-founded NPR's Planet Money. He recently left public radio to launch his own podcast production company, called Gimlet Media. They've already got two podcasts out, with a third on the way. He says, with smart phones and Wi-Fi enabled cars, people have more opportunity to listen to what they want, when they want.
Journalist Andrew Sullivan tells Steve Paulson why he thinks Americans must stand up for their country now.
Author Harriet Brown has a dangerous idea. What if stopped talking about how we look? Just stopped...
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