John Waters recommends "The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carl Klaus is the author of "Letters to Kate." It's a collection of the letters he wrote to his wife in the first year after her death.
Duncan Watts is the author of "Everything Is Obvious*: *Once You Know the Answer." He tells Jim Fleming how common sense often fails us.
In Connie Willis' world, historians can actually go to the past to study.
Brian Smith tells Jim about his family’s “Recycled Christmas.” None of the gifts could be new, and the only gift wrap allowed was old newspaper. He says that Christmas was one of his best ever.
With digital data streaming online, how do you make sense of it all? Data journalist David McCandless says, make it beautiful.
Want to see some of McCandless's visualizations? Take a look!
Charles Monroe-Kane tells a story from his car-racing background.
Jon Ronson's Dangerous Idea -- Can Too Much Christmas Drive Kids to Kill?
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