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And I think if you look at the things that blind people are capable of imagining, you know, like John Milton writing Paradise Lost as a blind person, you know, there is this incredible richness to consciousness that vision has nothing to do with.

It was her first collection of essays called Slouching Towards Bethlehem, because it's British, so it's got an S on the end, slashing towards Bethlehem.

Mario Puzo's The Godfather

The Godfather

Her most famous role of all, though, came when she worked for a different director, Stanley Kubrick, for his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining.

He was busy writing for television including such popular Emmywinning legal series as Ally McBeal and the practice More recently Kelly has enjoyed a late career renaissance Creating acclaimed TV adaptations of such novels as Big Little Lies.

When it came out in 1843, A Christmas Carol was a sensation and Charles Dickens became a legend.

Some people would consider him the originator of Christmas or the inventor of Christmas.

The story also traces the origins of the group to wealthy Texas conservatives bent on planning a second Trump term as early as 2020.

You know, it sounds as if this group, the American First Policy Institute, has maybe a better connection to the Trump organization, has a lot of the same ideas.

I would probably agree with people who say that Project 2025 in some areas has an even more ambitious agenda. It's probably on a couple points more sweeping and more aggressive.

There is a huge amount of overlap in terms of their policy goals, and that's not a surprise because they're both sort of modeled after what was seen as Trump's agenda in his first administration.

Project 2025 thought that it wanted the whole world to sort of know what its agenda was and draw as much attention to it as possible and hold all kinds of high profile events to promote that.

We read that you invited the feminist playwright and activist Eve Ensler, who wrote The Vagina Monologues, to come to Namibia to speak to those five actors.

Strong won an Emmy for that performance and a Tony for his recent starring role on Broadway in Ipsen's An Enemy of the People.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. That's the immortal opening sentence of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's 1938 masterpiece.

the duo's enterprise ... selfimprovement tomes like Atomic Habits and Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

He describes this in more detail in his 2022 memoir called James Patterson by James Patterson.

Your book of essays, The Fire Next Time, which was published in 1963, was I think perceived by many whites as an attack against whites like he's threatening us with the fire next time.

It was when I was being called the angry young man on the white side of town and being called Uncle Tom on the black side of town.

This experience would lead Fanon to write his most famous work, The Wretched of the Earth, a poetically messianic volume whose publication Shatz rightly terms a historical event.

In a new biography by awardwinning journalist Susan Page titled The Rule Breaker, The Life and Times of Barbara Walters,

Our guest today is journalist and author Susan Page. We're talking about her new book The Rulebreaker, The Life and Times of Barbara Walters.

Susan Page's new biography on the life and career of late television journalist and talk show host Barbara Walters titled The Rulebreaker.

In her new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking, Amanda Montell writes that our brains are overloaded with a gluttonous stream of constant information that's up against our innate tendencies as humans to believe conspiracy theories and mysticism like believing that we can manifest our way out of just about anything.

I really love this book and I can't wait to get into this conversation because you have this quote at the start of the book by the late famed philosopher, Franz Fanon, which says, each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission and fulfill or betray that mission.

I swear I manifested this.

Barbra Streisand has a new memoir called My Name is Barbara.

Congratulations on the book.

Barbra Streisand's new memoir is called My Name Is Barbra.

Your memoir starts with how early articles about you focused on your nose. Why did you want to start with your nose? It's a 900-page book.

She writes about everything, from growing up with a mother who constantly criticized her, to her love life and her extensive career.

And this winter, Fasthorse is taking on the musical version of the classic Peter Pan, providing a keen eye on revising some of the story's problematic depictions of Native Americans.

You're also taking on a classic, as I mentioned, the musical version of Peter Pan directed by Lonnie Price, which goes on tour in December. There are quite a few racist tropes.

The Native people come into play in Neverland, right? And so Neverland is a magical place ... the presence of us in Neverland was already a problem. I chose to keep Tiger Lily's name but made her the leader of a tribe of people who are the last of an extinct culture somewhere in the world.

Tom Hanks: "...the other guy. This sort of driven guy... The Les Misrables."

Stephen King has done Green Mile and The Body and Shawshank Redemption.