Jennifer Egan tells Steve Paulson all about her polyphonic narrative "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
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Joseph Persico talks about his book “Roosevelt’s Secret War.” Persico explains how the attack on Pearl Harbor prodded FDR to launch America’s first real intelligence network.
Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism.
Mucha Lucha is a Warner Brothers cartoon based on the Mexican tradition of masked wrestlers. The cartoon is the brainchild of an Australian and a Chinese.
Marilynne Robinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Gilead,” talks about the book with Steve Paulson.
Kamran Nazeer tells Anne Strainchamps about his own autism and about some of the other autistic children he went to school with and what happened to them.
Nicole Smith pilots an Army Apache AH 64 attack helicopter. She is the only African American female to do so.
Michael Witzel is the author of “The American Diner.” He talks about the way Hollywood makes use of the diner.
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