Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
Christa Parravani talks about her book, "Her," a memoir about the special bond she shares with her identical twin sister.
Anthony Horowitz has written dozens of books for children, including the teen superspy series featuring Alex Rider.
Clay Shirky is an internet expert and author of "Here Comes Everybody." He tells Steve Paulson how wide acceptance of social networking sites has dramatically changed our expectations of the media and even the role of journalism.
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.” Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor
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