George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers. His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Fleming talks with Harvey Pekar about "American Splendor" and his friendship with Robert Crumb.
George Saunders talks about his new short-story collection, "Tenth of December."
A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor talks with Steve Paulson about being a mid-Western writer and moving to New York City.
Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
Naturalist Gretel Ehrlich tells Steve Paulson why she visited at length with Inuit people in Greenland.
Glenn Tilbrook talks to TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon about his musical career – as a solo artist and as a co-founder of one of the most acclaimed bands from the New Wave era, Squeeze.
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