May 16, 2008
In 1995, when a massive stroke left French magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby totally paralyzed, the only way he could communicate was by blinking his left eye. And that's how he dictated his memoir, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. Kurt talks to painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel about how he turned Bauby’s book into a movie, just out on DVD.
(Originally aired: December 7, 2007)
Justin Torres is a record nut, the kind who combs through stacks of dusty LPs looking for obscure gems. Torres told Chris Roose that he became obsessed with finding an R&B crooner named Daron "Darondo" Pulliam. Darondo wasn't just a forgotten singer -- the man had apparently disappeared.
(Originally aired: March 10, 2006)
He's a professor of Constitutional Law at Yale and a commentator on race and religion in America, and also the author of the bestselling murder mystery The Emperor of Ocean Park. His book, New England White, just out in paperback, is also a thriller: it revolves around a prominent black family living in a picture-perfect, solidly white enclave near an Ivy League university.
(Originally aired: August 3, 2007)
In Jack Handey's new humor collection, he has some tough words for our enemies.
(Originally aired: May 5, 2006)
After Emily Dickinson died, her sister found nearly 2,000 poems in her bureau -- and in many, she imagined herself already dead. Sean Cole took a closer look at Dickinson's legendary poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."
(Originally aired: July 21, 2006)
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