Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx wrote the music and lyrics for “Avenue Q” - the hit Broadway musical about life and love in New York performed by puppets. John Tartaglia is the voice of the lead character.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jeff Bursey is a Canadian author and reviewer whose new book is called "Verbatim: A Novel."
No book has won more raves this year than Katherine Boo’s nonfiction portrait of a Mumbai slum, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers".
Peter Larson is a professional paleontologist and commercial fossil hunter. His book is “Rex Appeal: The Story of Sue, the Dinosaur that Changed Science, the Law and My Life.”
Ginger Strand talks about her book, "Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate."
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
John Spalding is a humor columnist for the on-line magazine Belief Net, and the author of “A Pilgrim’s Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City.”
Healing democracy, one living room at a time. Joan Blades and Parker Palmer introduce us to a grassroots movement that brings small groups of people together across bitter political divisions, to help them find common ground.
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