Eric Morel is boxing’s flyweight World Champion. He was born in Puerto Rico but now lives and trains in Wisconsin. TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe Kane joined Morel at the gym for a day.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christa Parravani talks about her book, "Her," a memoir about the special bond she shares with her identical twin sister.
What if you could take a pill or download netware to supercharge your brain? Physicist Michio Kaku says augmented intelligence and memory playback systems are the future of brain science.
Benedict Le Vay tells Jim Fleming that many customs still exist in England and are extremely important to the community, even though the reason for them is long forgotten.
Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."
Canadian novelist Sheila Heti talks about her new novel, "How Should a Person Be?" It's fiction, but the characters are real people -- they seem to be Sheila herself and her friends. Some of the dialogue is from actual conversations she transcribed. So what is this thing?
Bryan Palmer tells Steve Paulson how some population groups, from enslaved Africans to religious heretics, jazz musicians, and homosexuals have found refuge and freedom in the night.
Novelist Elinor Lipman has written an essay for the New York Times on the fine art of blurbing – writing short, pithy quotes to appear on fellow authors’ dust jackets.
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