David Mitchell talks about his latest novel, "The Bone Clocks," why he likes to jump between different literary genres, and how he became obsessed with questions about death and immortality.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Jones is an actor portraying Karl Marx in "Marx in Soho." Jones tells Judith Strasser some of the details about Marx that helped him nail the character.
Deborah Treisman is fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine. George Saunders is one of her star writers. Treisman and Saunders join Steve Paulson to talk about writing and publishing short stories.
Elizabeth Strout just won the Pulitzer Prize for her book "Olive Kitteridge." Marilynne Robinson's most recent novel, "Home," was a finalist for the National Book Award. Both women join Steve Paulson to discuss their works.
The celebrated cartoonist Chris Ware has a graphic novel called “Building Stories.” It’s like nothing Steve Paulson has ever seen or read before.
Carl Wilson is a writer and editor at Canada's national newspaper "The Globe and Mail," and the author of "Let's Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste." The book examines the phenomenon of Celine Dion, the best-selling female recording artist in the world.
Videographer Frank Boll is satisfied with only a few seconds of good wolf footage in his series "Wolves in Wisconsin". He talks about what it took to get that much.
Eve Van Cauter is a sleep researcher at the University of Chicago. She tells Steve Paulson that her findings link sleep deprivation with diabetes and obesity.
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