Here is our Executive Producer Steve Paulson's list of books that have blown his mind recently, with hopes that some of them will expand yours in 2015, if they haven't already.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Scott Turow has made a career writing hugely successful legal thrillers, but then he turned to a World War II novel.
Susan Friedman maintains an e-mail correspondence with a colleague in Iraq whose messages describe the hardships and terror of life in Iraq...
Simon Critchley is the author of "The Book of Dead Philosophers," a quirky account of how various philosophers thought about death and died themselves.
Patricia Lockwood is a rising star on the poetry scene. She's been dubbed the "poet laureate of Twitter,” and her latest collection, “Motherland, Fatherland, Homelandsexuals" is making waves. This also includes a bonus reading of Lockwood's poem, "Revealing Nature Photographs."
Timothy James Castle tells Jim Fleming how he brews the perfect cup of coffee. He says for the real coffee experience, drink it black without milk or flavors.
William Tsutsui tells Anne Strainchamps about the original Godzilla and why he became a cultural icon in Japan.
Suppose you could remember every day of your life. Would that be a blessing or a curse? For Jill Price it's been a burden. She has a very rare form of memory that gives her nearly total recall.
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