A night spent drinking and writing about his parents’ divorce uncovered an urgent need in Stanford professor Jamil Zaki to author THE WAR FOR KINDNESS: BUILDING EMPATHY IN A FRACTURED WORLD. He and James talk about how empathy can literally grow parts of the brain, hating the term hard-wired, facing the problems of the world today, and (sigh) STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Plus Michael Nye returns to talk about reviving and relaunching STORY.
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Jamil Zaki
Jamil and James discuss:
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Deanna Troi
The Good Samaritan
Princeton
Manchester United
Liverpool
Allen Iverson
Bill Nye
Borderlinks
Life After Hate
WRECK-IT RALPH
Contact Theory
Angela King
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Defensive dehumanization
Amanda Cook
Gareth Cook
Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
Carl Sagan
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Michael Nye
Michael and James discuss:
STORY
Lee K. Abbott
Travis Kurowski
AWP Conference
Dave Housley
BARRELHOUSE
MISSOURI REVIEW
RIVER STYX
BOULEVARD
HUNGER MOUNTAIN
ONE STORY
PLOUGHSHARES
“Nude” By Claudia Hinz
“World’s End” by Clare Beams
Valerie Cumming
Ohio State
“Amputation of the Angels” by Kyle Minor
LaTanya McQueen
Shanie Latham
THE PARIS REVIEW
THE KENYON REVIEW
BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
Anne Valente
Michael Croley
COLUMBUS ALIVE