Jane Austen abandoned her novel "Lady Susan," but filmmaker Whit Stillman has revivied it - in a new film and novel, both called "Love and Friendship." He talks about why he loves Austen and the 18th century.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Tad Williams is the author of several best-selling fantasy novels. He talks with Jim Fleming about the fantasy genre and how readers can use it to explore ideas about the real world.
There's money to be made in the future. It's Liz Crawford's job to help big corporations figure out how to prepare for possible futures.
Steve Venwright put out a CD called “The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor.” McGregor talks in his sleep like you’ve never heard before.
Robert Zubrin explains how he thinks we should go about colonizing Mars, and how settling a new world will save this one. And he describes how NASA’s using his ideas.
Essayist Susan Ehrlich is a practicing pediatrian who remembers what it was like treating her father during his final hours.
Olivia Laing talks about her book, "The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking."
Tim Friend has written a book about Archaea - a kind of microbe that doesn't fit into any of the traditional categories of life.
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