This year's recommendations come from writers and journalists including Granta editor John Freeman and writer Yiyun Li.
We turn to Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz for his thoughts on the pros and cons of President Obama's economic stimulus plan.
Green jobs, solar installers and windmill operators, might propel the American economy forward in the next decade.
Creating green jobs in the next decade will spur the American economy towards future growth. That's according to Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Prize winner and economics professor at Columbia University, who talked with host Steve Curwood.