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Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - Guest interviewer Carol Kapaun Ratchenski visits with Mark Vinz to talk about his new book, The Trouble with Daydreams, forthcoming from NDSU Press. They’ll also talk about life after academia. Now retired from Minnesota State University Moorhead, Vinz has been mentor and teacher to several generations of local writers. As always, Vinz’s poetry rings true and wise and yes, funny. ~~~ We continue with poetry with an episode of “Poetry from Studio 47,” which comes to us from Patrick Hicks, writer in residence and a member of the English faculty at Augustana U...

Britney Spears spoke during a hearing on June 23 and made it perfectly clear she wants her conservatorship to end. Here's what her likely next moves will be.

51:59 Monday, May 24, 2021 - Jack Russell Weinstein joins us for another episode of Philosophical Currents as he and Ashley discuss the interaction of emotion and reason, especially as it applies to vaccine hesitancy. ~~~ Patrick Hicks presents a Poetry from Studio 47 episode on Jeanne Emmons.

  Patrick Hicks: First of all, congratulations on the publication of The Leave-Takers. It’s a phenomenal story about love, addiction, and loss. You’ve set your second novel in Clark, South Dakota,

There are estate-planning disasters, and then there are the “quit the business that you grew into a phenomenon, become addicted to various substances, buy random parts of a town in Utah and die in a literal fire of your own making” kinds of disasters. That was the swan dive that Tony Hsieh executed on the way to his demise. After 20 years of leading Zappos to world-class success and redeveloping parts of downtown Las Vegas, Hsieh unraveled in spectacular fashion. Hsieh died soon after firefighters pulled him from a building in Connecticut charred by a fire he set, leaving not only an est...