The authors of “Persepolis” and “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” speak together at the Wisconsin Book Festival 2006.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Martha Bayles talks with Anne Strainchamps about why we love war movies and what messages they send.
Jimmy Santiago Baca is a champion of the International Poetry Slam, and the author of four books of verse. He talks with Steve Paulson about the power of poetry and reads some of his own verse.
You know that the first settlers called Manhattan "New Amsterdam"? But the Dutch didn't just bring their sailing prowess and placenames with them. Russell Shorto thinks that liberal Dutch ideas about politics and society came too, and shaped the New World.
Laney Salisbury talks about the 1925 dogsled relay that brought diphtheria anti-serum to ice-bound Nome, Alaska which was facing an epidemic in the dead of winter. Dogsleds were the only way in and the whole nation followed their perilous journey by telegraph.
John Lloyd Young is starring as Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons in "Jersey Boys." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he decided to become an actor.
Robert Fuller is the author of "Wonder" - the first in-depth look at one of humanity's most important emotions.
Australian Les Murray is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest living poet in English today.
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