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Latest Podcast Extras Our podcast feed is packed with extended interviews, archive highlights, special performances and more. Read More	Previously on the Podcast Previously featured on the podcast: a hippie doctor, a sage of science, Hillary's first speech, and the history of ballooning. Read More
The Hippie Doctor Listen Now Download Larry Brilliant is a doctor, co-founder of the digital social network the Well, and he was the first executive director of Google.org. But back in the Sixties, he was a hippie doctor who joined Wavy... Read More	Winner of the 2016 National Book Award Listen Now Download Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad just won the 2016 National Book Award. Steve Paulson spoke with him about this powerful, sweeping epic. Read More
Jacqueline Woodson's 'Another Brooklyn' Listen Now Download This month the National Book Awards will announce this year’s winners. Among the finalists is Jacqueline Woodson’s novel “Another Brooklyn.” It’s her first adult novel in two decades, and it's the... Read More	The Massacre at Wounded Knee - 10 Years Later Listen Now Download One of the most horrific episodes in American history occurred on December 29, 1890. The U.S. Cavalry surrounded an encampment of Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and massacred... Read More
Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past Listen Now Download Cultural critic Chuck Klosterman takes thinking about the future to a whole new level with his new book, "But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past." In the book, he... Read More	Tennis in China Listen Now Download J.R. Thornton was once a serious tennis player on the junior circuit. Then he moved to China and spent a year training with the Beijing National Team, where he discovered just how different the life... Read More
Art and Music in Rothko Chapel Listen Now Download Houston's Rothko Chapel is a shrine to the transformative power of art. Abstract artist Mark Rothko created 14 enormous paintings for this sacred space. Pianist Sarah Rothenberg tells us the history... Read More	Paul Feig's Best Stories On Friday, the Ghostbusters reboot will open in theaters 32 years after the original's release. Paul Feig, the new movie's director, has sat down with TTBOOK on a number of occasions to...

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