John Updike is celebrated as a novelist but is also an essayist and art critic.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Richard Dawkins is an eminent biologist at Oxford University and one of the world's most famous atheists.
Paul Theroux lived and taught in Africa throughout much of the 1960s. He returned recently and describes the journey in his book “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.”
Joseph Persico talks about his book “Roosevelt’s Secret War.” Persico explains how the attack on Pearl Harbor prodded FDR to launch America’s first real intelligence network.
Brion Gysin is the most influential 20th century artist you’ve never heard of.
The documentary film "The Brooklyn Connection" shows how a Brooklyn immigrant raised over 30 million dollars to arm and supply the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Loren Coleman talks to Steve Paulson about sea monsters. He even weighs in on the reality of the Loch Ness Monster.
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