- Author T.C. Boyle reminisced about his bad boy days in a rock band and discussed his new book, “The Harder They Come.”
- Do items we put together ourselves—even out-of-the-box furniture from IKEA—hold deeper meaning for us? Behavioral economist Michael Norton explained.
- Author Piper Kerman spent thirteen months in prison for money laundering. Then, she wrote a memoir about—“Orange Is The New Black”—which is now a hit show on Netflix. She talked about that and her thoughts on reforming the prison system in the United States.
- Harvard historian Nancy Koehn followed the remarkable journey of once-disgraced King Richard III from being buried under a parking lot to a grand procession.
- Journalist and author Peter Slevin discussed First Lady Michelle Obama’s trajectory from the South Side of Chicago to the White House and his new biography, “Michelle Obama: A Life.”
- Author and political scientist Robert Putnam tackled income inequality and education with his new book, “Our Kids.”
- We revisit the movie “Stand By Me” for our Cinema Classics Challenge and ask film credit Garen Daly and you: does it still hold up today?
