While some people hate spending time alone, for others it's a desired state of being. Writer Anneli Rufus considers herself among these happy loners.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Amy Tan tells Anne Strainchamps about her family history and her mother's belief in fate and the power of their Chinese ancestors.
Ali Allawi tells Steve Paulson why the in-fighting of the transitional government in Iraq forced him to resign and why he feels the American efforts there were doomed.
Have you every actually read Thoreau's "Walden"? If not, you've really missed something. Here's the next best thing: excerpts from the book, set to music.
Alain de Botton tells Steve Paulson how modern readers can derive comfort from philosophy, and sees no conflict between talking about serious ideas and entertaining the reader.
Andreas Viestad is host of PBS’ “New Scandinavian Cooking.” He tells stories from the location filming of the series.
Here's an Anishinaabe poem and creation story by Kimberly Blaeser, the Poet Laureate of Wisconsin. It's the story of the lowly muskrat, and it reminds us that we are constantly building new worlds - and have been doing so since before the beginning of time.
Adam tells Jim Fleming that the emotional worlds of his mentally ill characters are different from those of the rest of us only in degree, not in kind.
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