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Francis: The Pope, The Person

August 5, 2015 Culture

We’ll get to know the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio a little better with Robert Draper, whose book with photographer David Yoder is called Pope Francis and the New Vatican.

Do I Sound Gay?

August 5, 2015 Culture, Race/Identity

We’ll talk about whether a “gay voice” exists – and if it does, why? – with filmmaker David Thorpe, whose documentary Do I Sound Gay opens this weekend at the Texas Theatre.

The Surfing Life

August 3, 2015 Culture

This hour, we’ll talk with New Yorker writer William Finnegan about the allure of surfing, which he explores in his memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.

New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee joins us to talk about what separates the comics that make it into the magazine from the ones that don’t – and about packing the maximum amount of humor into a single frame.

How Identical Twins Became Fraternal

July 27, 2015 Culture

Imagine being separated at birth from your identical twin and raised alongside your assumed fraternal twin. That’s exactly what happened to four infants in Colombia.

The Life Of A Speechwriter

July 23, 2015 Culture, Politics

We’ll talk about the process of populating all those TelePrompters with Barton Swaim, a one-time speechwriter for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

The Two-Dad Dynamic

July 20, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk this hour about two-dad households with Aaron Goodfellow, author of Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship.

To Japan, With Love

July 20, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk with Tracy Slater about leaving America to live across the Pacific with the man she fell in love with, which she writes about in her memoir, The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World.

Serious Taco Talk

July 14, 2015 Culture

The history and future of the taco in Dallas – and where the best ones can be found.

The Legacy of Dadaism

July 8, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk about the lasting legacy of Dadaism with Jed Rasula, author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century.

Scandinavians Have Problems, Too

July 6, 2015 Culture

Are Scandinavians really as content as we’re lead to believe? Michael Booth, author of ‘The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia,’ dissects the illusion.

Native Vision

July 6, 2015 Culture

The exhibition “Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection” brings 120 artworks from tribes across North America to the Amon Carter in Fort Worth.