Robert Leleux talks about growing up gay, in Texas, with his plastic surgery junkie and drama queen of a mother, whom he adores and who is accompanying him on his book tour.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kevin Kelly tells Jim Fleming that the sum total of our technology - what he calls “the technicum” - is taking on the properties of life itself.
Laura Miller tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" books are such a phenomenal success with young women, even though the lead female character is so lacking in gifts or accomplishments.
Joel Kotkin tells Anne Strainchamps how the power of e-commerce is changing where and how we live. He says that knowledge workers choose to live in nerdistans and valhallas.
Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.
Pagan Kennedy is the author of “Black Livingstone,” a biography of 19th century black American missionary William Sheppard.
Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them.
Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.” He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.
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