Karen Wenborn tells Jim Fleming about Classical Comics which have published three versions of Shakespeare plays, pairing various versions of the texts with bright, action-packed, comic book style visuals.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mark Dunn's book, “Ella Minnow Pea,” explores what happens when individual letters begin to be expunged from the language. It’s a technical tour de force since the author labors under the same restrictions as his characters.
Paul Ekman tells Jim Fleming about different kinds of lies, and the physical signs that signal deceit.
Laura Miller tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" books are such a phenomenal success with young women, even though the lead female character is so lacking in gifts or accomplishments.
Writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry is an outspoken left-wing intellectual with an urban sensibility who now lives off the grid in rural Wisconsin.
Kevin Kelly tells Jim Fleming that the sum total of our technology - what he calls “the technicum” - is taking on the properties of life itself.
Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them.
Historian Ian Buruma tells Jim Fleming that economically China seems to be in better shape than Russia, but its situation is far more precarious in the long run.
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