Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with author Joyce Gemperlein about the allure of actor Patrick Swayze. While watching "Dirty Dancing" with her pre-adolescent daughter, Gemperlein notes, "I could see it dawning, however subliminally, on this young teenager that, as playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote, 'Dance is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.'"

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Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Judy Bachrach about the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Bachrach explains that Kennedy strove to atone for the foolish and criminal acts of his younger life.

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Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Obit-mag.com's "resident sage" Judy Bachrach about her weekly advice column for the terminally ill and their loved ones, Ask Judy.

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Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with the author of Obit Magazine's weekly wrap-up of the art and science of obit writing, the Grim Reader. How do you wrap up a life?

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Photographer Lisa Ross travelled to the western Chinese province of Xinjiang to photograph Sufi burial mounds cut off to foreign visitors and Sufi practitioners alike. These structures and Ross' subtle and sensitive portraits occasion critic Jeff Weinstein to consider the form of photography as it relates to memory, legacy and social documentation.

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Of the many fronts of natural degradation, silence is perhaps the least recognized. But author John Grossmann finds that natural silence connects us to a pre-modern consciousness like no other natural feature of the earth. We would ignore its demise at our own peril.

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Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Author Lesléa Newman who reads from her recent Obit-Mag.com article, "When Death Came to Call"

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Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Author Suzanne Strempek Shea who reads from her recent Obit-Mag.com article, "Bitter Visitor"

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