Journalist Andrea Rock says that we still don’t know very much about what the mind’s up to when it’s dreaming although we’ve always had theories.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Adam Gussow talks with Steve Paulson about the Blues legend of going to the crossroads to sell your soul to the devil in exchange for expertise playing the Blues.
The film “Buzkashi Boys” is a coming of age story set in Afghanistan’s national sport, Buzkashi. It's a game of horse polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball. Plus, a coda from novelist Khaled Hosseini.
Alexander McCall Smith, was born in Africa and has written the immensely popular “No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” series of novels.
Israeli novelist Amos Oz tells Steve Paulson that his own life parallels the history of modern Israel and that his parents were intellectual European emigres.
From Bloomer, Wisconsin, listener Jonathan Blyth sent us a ghost story called "You Are What You Eat."
Angus Trumble is Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, and is the author of “A Brief History of the Smile.” He tells Steve Paulson that the Julia Roberts-style toothy grin in a recent fashion that would have seemed improper centuries ago.
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