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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.
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.
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.”
Philosopher David Benatar argues that its time we paid more attention to gender discrimination against men. He's the author of "The Second Sexism."
Spanish writer Teresa Solana writes biting, satirical crime stories set in her native city -- Barcelona. In her latest, she explores the fallout from Spain's economic crisis.
Boz Temple-Morris, the co-founder and Marketing Director of the Enlightened Tobacco Company, tells Steve Paulson the company was all about truth in advertising.
Chiori Miyagawa is a playwright in New York and teaches at Bard College. “Comet Hunter” is the story of Caroline Herschel who collaborated with her brother William during the 18th and early 19th centuries and made several important contributions to astronomy.
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