Joel Kotkin tells Anne Strainchamps how the power of e-commerce is changing where and how we live. He says that knowledge workers choose to live in nerdistans and valhallas.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them.
Julian Barnes talks about “England, England.” It’s his latest novel, in which all the tourist attractions of England (Stonehenge, the Tower of London, the Royal Family) are recreated in one theme park.
Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.
Lynne Truss is the author of a very popular punctuation guide. She explains her book’s title to Steve Paulson and gives several funny examples of punctuation mistakes.
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
Rich Cohen tells Jim Fleming about his charismatic friend Drew, and their forays into a more complex and sophisticated world.
Wired columnist and tech writer Clive Thompson unpacks his optimistic take on computer technology -- it's making us, and our kids, smarter.
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