Aimee McCormick and Andra Mitrovich spent years touring in a two-woman play called, “Love, Janis.” They talk about how much of herself Janis Joplin poured into her performances.
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.
Alison Hawthorne Deming reads "Chauvet" - her poem about the French cave with ancient art painted on its walls.
Novelist Ana Menendez talks about her book “Loving Che.” She reads a passage and they discuss the real Che Guevara and his impact on Latin America.
Doug Gordon profiles Anne Beatts, one of the original writers for the groundbreaking late night comedy series "Saturday Night Live".
A.C. Grayling talks about the western Allies’ use of carpet bombing against civilian populations in both the European and Pacific theaters during WWII.
Anne Strainchamps talks with Anne Fadiman about her book “Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love.”
He tells Steve Paulson that the long tradition of rigorous investigation of the mind undertaken by Buddhism has a lot to teach Western science.
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