Zadie Smith portrays London as it really is with people from many races and cultures living together and spillinng over into each other’s lives.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Science writer Jennifer Ouellette spent a year confronting her math phobia straight on. She taught herself calculus. It helped her win at Vegas, get a good mortgage, and might just save her from a zombie apocalypse.
Russ Parsons tells Jim Fleming how to make a great french fry, and why potatoes are only the beginning!
Outstanding playwright and performer Sarah Jones takes us inside creating characters. She won a Tony for her multi-character solo show, "Bridge & Tunnel," which was a long running hit on Broadway.
African Genre Fiction is breaking the mold of African literature. And “Broken Monsters” certainly does that. It is a crime novel written by a white South African that is set in Detroit.
Performance artist Tim Miller focuses on dimensions of his life as a gay man in his work.
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."
Geneticist Steve Jones tells Jim Fleming that biologically men, who have a Y chromosome, are the second sex.
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