Here There Be Monsters

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Here There Be Monsters
07.10.2011
 (was 07.25.2010)

It's a post-apocalyptic novel that's been compared to Stephen King's "The Stand" and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." It covers a vast time span and features a different kind of vampire, known as "virals." It's called "The Passage" and it's one of this summer's hottest books. We'll meet the author, Justin Cronin, as we explore. Also...Cartoonist and author Lynda Barry reminisces about her favorite monsters.

 

  1. Lynda Barry on Her Favorite Monsters

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    Lynda Barry reminisces about her favorite monsters.

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  2. Justin Cronin on "The Passage"

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    "The Passage" has been described as "an engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America." The author says the idea came out of a discussion with his nine-year-old daughter.

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  3. Stephen Asma on Our Fear of Monsters

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    Stephen Asma teaches philosophy at Columbia College in Chicago. He talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears."

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  4. Joshua Blu Buhs on Bigfoot

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    Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar and the author of "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend." But he tells Steve Paulson he doesn't really think the creature exists.

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  5. Richard Holmes on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

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    Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.

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