Karen Wenborn tells Jim Fleming about Classical Comics which have published three versions of Shakespeare plays, pairing various versions of the texts with bright, action-packed, comic book style visuals.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nicholson Baker talks about his new novel, "House of Holes: A Book of Raunch," which is set in a sexual theme park.
Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes" page on Simon and Schuster's website
Writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry is an outspoken left-wing intellectual with an urban sensibility who now lives off the grid in rural Wisconsin.
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.
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.
Peter Klimley is the world’s leading expert on Hammerhead and Great White sharks. He tells Jim Fleming what Hollywood got wrong in “Jaws."
The clay tablets found at the Greek palace of Knossos had one of the strangest languages ever discovered. Margalit Fox tells the story of Linear B - and the obsessed, tragic lives of the two people who devoted their lives to cracking the code.
Wonder Woman is 70! Jim Lee drew the updated Wonder Woman and describes her to Steve Paulson.
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