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The poet and journalist Melissa Bond had terrible insomnia. Her doctor prescribed Ativan, a benzodiazepine. Then her life fell apart.
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The poet and journalist Melissa Bond had terrible insomnia. Her doctor prescribed Ativan, a benzodiazepine. Then her life fell apart.
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The writer Leslie Jamison said she had bought into the story that booze and a dark temperament were ingredients of beautiful art. So when she sobered up…
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William Mumler was a 19th-century photographer who took portraits of people and the ghosts of their departed. And he made a good living at it until he was…
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Princeton historian Elaine Pagels has spent her career considering early Christianity. When she lost her son and husband though, she says studying…
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Friday, we continue our series on documentary film with the story of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female filmmaker. She wrote, produced, or directed a…
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Friday, we’re talking about Fredrick Douglass, escaped slave, educator, and orator. Historian David Blight says that words were his only weapon, and he…
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Even people who don’t like jazz know about Miles Davis. Director Stanley Nelson’s latest film profiles the mercurial musician whose relentlessly creative…
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John Wesley Powell was more than the explorer who first navigated the Grand Canyon. Biographer John Ross says he was also a visionary who asked questions…
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Nature writer Gary Ferguson was canoeing with his wife when they capsized, and she died in the accident. He joins us to talk about spreading her ashes…