We’ll talk this hour about the intersection between writing for humans and writing for computers with Vikram Chandra, author of Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty.
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Now Vs. Later
We’ll talk this hour about resisting the temptation to take the easy route with Paul Roberts, author of The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification.
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The Man Behind The Curtain
As part of our special Labor Day episode, we’ll listen back this hour to our conversation from June with David Zweig. He writes about the nameless, faceless people who keep our world running in his book Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion.
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Making Connections
As part of our special Labor Day episode, we’ll listen back this hour to our conversation from January with Susan RoAne, author of How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections – In Person and Online.
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The History Of Hanging
This hour, we’ll talk with the author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.
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Face To Face
We’ll talk this hour about why it’s still valuable to look someone in the eye with developmental psychologist Susan Pinker, author of The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter.
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Teaching Special Needs Kids
We’ll talk this hour about how we can better teach children with ADHD, dyslexia and other challenges with David Flink, who writes about the topic in Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities.
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Love And Obesity
Sarah Varney discusses the love lives of obese and overweight people, which she writes about in XL Love: How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America’s Love Life.
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A Year in Iran
Hoomad Mjad joins us this hour to talk about his memoir, The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran.
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The Language Of Food
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson examines the language of food.
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Face Time
This hour, we talk to sociologist Heather Laine Talley about those affected by facial disfigurement and the politics of appearance.
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Wrongfully Accused
We’ll talk to Michael Morton this hour about what it was like to spend a quarter century in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, which he writes about in his memoir, Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace.
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