There’s another place where food and death go together, but it’s a place we don’t like to talk about: the last meal. Brian Price has prepared the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.
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Samuel Clemens was an energetic and passionate man who traveled the world and created a new American idiom.
Novelist Tom Perrotta talks with Anne Strainchamps about life in the suburbs, where everything is nice, and nobody wants a pedophile to move into the neighborhood.
Steve Paulson profiles savage literary critic Dale Peck. A collection of Peck’s reviews is called “Hatchet Jobs.”
Vivek Maddala composes new scores for silent movies. He tells Steve Paulson how music can tell a story.
Computer paswords are on on our minds this week. "The New York Times" reporter Ian Urbina talks about his feature story, "The Secret Life of Passwords."
Brendan Koerner talks about his book, "The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking."
Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist who's written books on consciousness, memes and Zen Buddhism. She says her daily practice of meditation has revealed truths that have eluded the scientific study of consciousness.
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