Jonathan Lethem's new novel is "Chronic City." The book has been described as a cross between the famous borough-centric New Yorker cartoon and the darkest episode of "Seinfeld."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Marilynne Robinson is from Idaho, although she's spent years of her life on the East Coast. The Western character is something Robinson has never let go of, it still informs her life and her writing today.
"Ghostwalk" is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy.
Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending" won the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Barnes talks with Steve Paulson about the complications of memory, aging and moral reckoning.
Phillip Pullman tells Steve Paulson that he thinks the process of how children develop into adult, moral people is the most interesting subject there is.
Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.
Writer and activist Linda Tirado has lived a lot of shabby apartments over the years. She's dealt with greedy landlords, flooded apartments and bug infestations. As she writes in her memoir "Hand To Mouth: Living In Bootstrap America," substandard housing is just a fact of life when you're part of the working poor in America.
In this week in 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman portable cassette player. In our digital age the cassette is ancient history, right? Thank again.
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