Cheryl Strayed on ‘Wild’
A 2012 interview with Cheryl Strayed shortly after her memoir ‘Wild’ was published. She talks about her advice column and her excitement about the Reese Witherspoon film that came out in 2014.
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
Sleep. We spend a third of our lives doing it, but it’s still a mystery. David K. Randall explores Dreamland
Oscar, Schmoscar. What makes a BAD movie?
For Oscar week, a conversation about what makes a BAD movie? There are as many ways to make a bad movie as there are to make a good movie. What are the categories, elements, taxonomy, and causes of bad movies? Author David Schmader (who uses Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Showgirls’ as the ur-text bad movie), author and radio host John Moe, movie critic and author David Thomson (any movie with Alan Alda), movie critics Jeff Shannon and Christy Lemire radio and podcast host Jeannie Yandel, and callers dissect the elements and taxonomy of bad movies.
Atul Gawande: Being Mortal. What matters in the end
Atul Gawande on ‘Being Mortal’, the key questions to ask about the end of life.
High School Reunion
We ponder what happens you meet up with the people who knew you as a teenager..
Arlie Hochschild ‘Strangers in Their Own Land’
Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild moved to Louisiana to spend time with conservative white rural people to find out why they hated government and supported Donald Trump