Mary Karr's latest memoir is called "Lit" and chronicles her alcoholism and alcoholic family.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.”
Shark researcher John Musick tells Steve Paulson what makes sharks unique and why people should get out of the water at 5 o’clock.
The Book of Revelation is the Bible's last - and most controversial - book. Renowned historian Elaine Pagels explains the enduring power of this apocalyptic story.
In 1776 there were no radios or telephones or honking cars, but there were other sounds. The church bell, the town crier, and women beating their laundry all had distinct sounds.
Peter Handel reviews mystery novels for Pages magazine. He talks about the rise of interest in mystery writers from such countries as Italy, France, Scotland and Sweden.
Marco Iacoboni talks about mirror neurons - neurons hard-wired into us and explain how we feel empathy and compassion and why we feel the need to connect with one another.
Robert Mankoff and Roz Chast talk about what characterized New Yorker cartoons of the past, and how new cartoons are edited at the magazine.
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