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Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives

For TTBOOK host Anne Strainchamps her only encounters with guns happened in the pages of crime fiction -- usually, stories featuring women. Give her a woman and a gun and she was there for 200 plus pages.   Kinsey Milhone, VI Warshawski, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew…She could name dozens of fictional female crime fighters -- but not one real-life woman detective.  

That was until she picked up historian Erika Janik’s latest, “Pistols and Petticoats.”   It’s the story of how women moved from crime solving in fiction to the real world.   

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Katha Pollitt on "Learning to Drive"

Katha Pollitt is a celebrated feminist writer and columnist for The Nation magazine. Her new book is "Learning to Drive."

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Richard Schweid on Eels

Richard Schweid loves eels.  He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.

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New Music - Steve Mullen

You probably heard our new theme tune in the shows this weekend. Want the back story on how the new music came about? Here's a conversation with Steve Mullen, who composed it.

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Laurell Hamilton on "Narcissus in Chains"

Laurell Hamilton has written a series of novels featuring a character called Anita Blake.  Anita is a vampire executioner whose day job is raising the dead.  Hamilton talks about Anita’s world

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Kids Go Wild

"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto.  Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.

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Robert Neuwirth on "Shadow Cities"

Robert Neuwirth tells Steve Paulson about the process by which people acquire and improve dwellings in the world's cities even when they don't own land.

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Lietaer & Dunne

Is there a better way to think about money? Bernard Lietaer thinks so. One of the designers of the Euro, he’s now talking up the virtues of alternative currencies. In this EXTENDED interview, Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne tell us why complementary currencies are now flourishing around the world – and how they could help us dodge the next recession.

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