In this EXTENDED and UNCUT interview, Sarah Lewis talks about the upside of failure.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Tim O’Brien talks with Jim Fleming about the life-long consequences of the decisions the Viet Nam generation made in their twenties, and says it’s harder to effectively protest today.
What do the NSA disclosures really tell us? Ben Wizner should know. When he's not directing the ACLU's Speech Privacy and Technology Project, he doubles as Edward Snowden's legal adviser. He explains why we should be worried about the agency's push to expand its surveillance programs.
Tracy Honn, director of the Silver Buckle Press in Madison, WI, takes TTBOOK's Charles Monroe-Kane and Caryl Owen on a tour of this working museum of letterpress printing.
Film critic Roger Ebert on the glories of black and white films
Maybe people 30,000 years ago weren't so different from us. That's one of Werner Herzog's takeaways from seeing the ancient paintings in Chauvet Cave. The renowned filmmaker describes his own experience of awe when he encountered this prehistoric art.
Stacy Holman Jones is the author of "Torch Singing." She loves the music, but as an avowed feminist.
British novelist Will Self has written some very strange books. His latest is called “How the Dead Live.”
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