How will we react, the day we hear the news that scientists have found life on another planet? Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has dreamed up many first contact scenarios. His classic science fiction novel, "Ender's Game" is all about the consequences of a first contact gone badly wrong. He's just published a long-awaited sequel.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Linguist John McWhorter says all six thousand contemporary languages evolved from a single source and that there’s no such thing as a pure language.
Rae Armantrout believes that there is one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Kerry O. Burns talks with Judith Strasser and performs excerpts from his one-man show “Markings of the Soul.” The play tells the story of Kerry and his gay brother, Tim.
Mary Karr's latest memoir is called "Lit" and chronicles her alcoholism and alcoholic family.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
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