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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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Keith Miller on Libraries & Writing

Keith Miller is a novelist for whom libraries function as a muse.

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Michael Shumacher on "A Dreamer's Life in Comics"

Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.

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Marilynne Robinson on "Gilead"

Marilynne Robinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Gilead,” talks about the book with Steve Paulson.

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Morgan Spurlock on McDonald's

Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.”  He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.

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Jimmy Palmieri on Behcet's Syndrome

Jimmy Palmieri talks with Anne Strainchamps about living with intractable pain.  Palmieri describes his life and explains how he became a chef in spite of his illness.

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Richard Sennett on "The Craftsman"

Richard Sennett makes the case that our definition of craft should be expanded to include any job a person commits to executing to the best of their abilities.

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On Our Minds: Science Fictional Universe

Charles Yu on quantum parenting, time travel and other science fictional paradoxes. Yu is the author of the acclaimed novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."

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