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.
Read moreMaking 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.
Read moreThe History Of Hanging
This hour, we’ll talk with the author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.
Read moreFace 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.
Read moreTeaching 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.
Read moreLove 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThe Language Of Food
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson examines the language of food.
Read moreFace Time
This hour, we talk to sociologist Heather Laine Talley about those affected by facial disfigurement and the politics of appearance.
Read moreWrongfully 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.
Read moreMission To Mars
This hour, we’ll take a trip 35 million miles from Earth with science writer Marc Kaufman, author of “Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission.”
Read moreWords And Pictures
We’ll talk this hour about how we imagine what we read with Peter Mendelsund, Associate Art Director for Alfred A Knopf Books. He writes about the topic in “What We See When We Read.”
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