Lev Grossman tells Anne Strainchmps about his experiences working at one of the great repositories of rare books.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier talks about his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"
Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and host of public radio and television travel shows.
Marcus Chown is agog at the wonder of the universe and tells Anne Strainchamps that we haven't begun to understand the strangeness of it all.
Environmentalist Jennifer Jacquet qrecommends "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
With all that New York has to offer, Robert Sullivan chose to spend his time in a dark alley in Manhattan observing rats.
Mark Lee was a war correspondent for the London Telegraph in East Africa. He barely made it back alive and has now written a novel called “Canal House.”
Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”
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