Junot Diaz bookmarks "Dark Reflections" by Samuel R. Delany.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Handler wrote "A Series of Unfortunate Events" under the pen name of Lemony Snicket.
Fashion designer Suzanne Lee makes jackets and skirts out of cloth she grows by fermenting liquid in a big vat. In the future, she believes we'll harness nature to grow all sorts of clothing and other products.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
David Blight tells Jim Fleming that Americans on both sides played a role in whitewashing the history of the Civil War, in favor of a more unified nation.
Avital Ronell has been called “the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge.” She gives Jim Fleming an inspired take on stupidity.
Dean Hamer says that human beings are hard-wired for belief and are genetically pre-disposed to reach beyond their own limitations.
Edmund Morris says Theodore Roosevelt was a force of nature - man of towering intellect, boundless physical energy and firm convictions whose greatest achievement as President was his commitment to conservation.
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