Now I've Heard Everything

An iconic Congresswoman's memoir.

Pat Schroeder wa the first woman elected to Congress fromColorado, in 1972. She served 24 years in the House, becoming one of its most influential members.

In this 1998 interview, Schroeder reflects with humor and perceptiveness on her years in Congress -- and how a tearful exit from the 1988 presidential race helped define her political career.

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The plot twist that turned an actor into a novelist.

Ron McLarty had a decades-long successful career as a character actor, on Broadway and on television.

But this 2005 interview was not about his acting, it was about his first published novel. And how he got there, with the help of people including Stephen King..

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You may also enjoy my interviews with two other actors who became novelists: Fannie Flagg and Stephen Collins

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The lasting impact of the Vietnam war in America.

Former Vietnam war correspondent. Laura Palmer was so moved by memorabilia that family members and friends leave at the Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington. She wrote a book about it.

In this 1988 interview about her book shrapnel in the Heart, Laura Palmer talks about the years long effects of the war on those left behind.

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He saved his life by cutting off his own arm.

Aron Ralston was an experienced rock climber in 2003, when a bizarre accident left him literally trapped between a rock and a hard place in a remote canyon in Utah.

In this 2005 interview, Ralston describes his 6-day ordeal, his near death, and what has changed about his life since then.

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How an FBI profiler profiles.

The FBI today routinely profiles sexual predators. One of their first sex crimes profilers was Roy Hazelwood.

In this 1999 interview, Hazelwood talks about some of the most notorious cases he worked on during his long career with the FBI.

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Beyond Catwoman and Santa Baby.

During a career that spanned more than six decades, Eartha Kitt established herself as a premier singer, actress, even a voiceover artist in her later years.

In this 2001 interview, Kitt discusses her secrets of staying youthful and vibrant.

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The real life prosecutor who inspired a hit TV series.

Linda Fairstein helped establish the first sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office in the 1980s. Her work inspired "Llaw & Order SVU.".

I in this 1996 interview, we talk about Linda Fairsein's first crime novel, a mystery introducing the character of Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper.

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What is your world like, when you can't see your world?

Poet and professor Stephen Kuusisto was born blind 68 years ago. Today he is a leading advocate for the visually disabled.

In this 1998 interview, we discuss Kuusisto's

autobiography, a book called Planet of The Blind, and what life without vision is like.

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A defense attorney's take on the trial of the century.

Attorney Gerry Spence practice law for six decades, and as a prosecutor and defense attorney he never lost a criminal case.

He was a courtroom spectator in the 1995 OJ Simpson murder trial. And in this 1997 interview, Spence explains why he thinks the case came out the way it did.

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Stories inspired by her mother made her a best-selling author.

Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club was based largely on the wisdom her mother and her contemporaries had brought to America from China.

In this 1990 interview, Tan reflects on her mother's life, their relationship, and the incredible well of consciousness she tapped into for her book.

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