Welcome to a buffet of this year’s interviews in three separate excerpts. Heina Daddbhoy, Sarah Jones, and Chani Getter spoke about leaving the orthodoxies of their respective religions on 9/30/14. Then, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson took us aboard the International Space Station on 2/18/14. Finally, on 6/24/14, Marrie Stone guest-hosted UCI’s New Swan Theater Shakespearean festival directors and scholar respectively: Calvin MacLean, Eli Simon, and Julia Lupton.