Chris Turner is the author of “Planet Simpson: How A Carton Masterpiece Defined A Generation.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.
In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents. He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.
Bjorn Turmann was born and raised in Vancouver, but has lived in Asia since 1993 ...
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
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
Charlotte Hays is co-author of "Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral."
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