Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist whom many critics think will be a future Nobel Prize winner. His new novel is called “Big Breasts & Wide Hips.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jonathan Lethem talks about his role as a novelist, which he explores in his new book, "The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc."
Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."
Jim Fleming explores Wisconsin’s Cave of the Mounds with Marcia Bjornerud, author of “Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth.”
Lynn Garrett tells Steve Paulson that bookstores are selling out of books on Islam and terrorism, and that there’s strong interest in books that tackle fundamental moral questions.
These days it doesn't matter whether you are a conservative or a liberal, if you are looking for inspiration you look to Ronald Reagan.
Mark Kurlansky talks with Jim Fleming about the long and dramatic history of salt.
Richard Weinshilboum talks with Steve Paulson about pharmaco-genetics, which will enable physicians to make up drugs specifically geared to each patient’s metabolism.
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