Nick Bantock bookmarks "The Fencing Master" by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Liss talks about how different trials were in the 18th century, and explains that modern patterns of thinking were only beginning to take hold.
No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Craig Childs is a naturalist and nature writer whose latest book is "The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild." He talks with Steve Paulson about some of his life-threatening encounters with wild creatures and why he's not especially worried in the wild.
The last word goes to Dr. Seuss. His Sneetches found out the hard way about trying to follow the latest fads.
Writer and illustrator Bruce McCall talks with Steve Paulson about why he hated the 1950s, and some of the fantasy cars he thinks the decade might have inspired.
Food critic Carolyn Wyman talks with Steve Paulson about the history of Wonder Bread.
You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you. Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”
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