Naif Al-Mutawa is the Creator of "The 99," a comic book series featuring a group of superheroes, each of whom derives a power from one of the 99 attributes of Allah.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mikita Brottman tells Anne Strainchamps about her own accident, the legends that grow up around celebrity car crashes, and the odd thrill we get from road wrecks.
Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.
Nicholas Carr recommends John Edward Huth's 2013 book, "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way," about how to use the natural world to navigate.
Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball tell Steve Paulson what makes a lyric work and that many of the great songs came from Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
Jason Zasky edits the failuremagazine website. He just loves a good comeback story and shares a few with Anne Strainchamps.
Jerry Aronson spent a dozen years filming the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and produced a documentary called "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg."
Oscar Hijuelos is the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature for his book "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love." His memoir is called "Thoughts Without Cigarettes."
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