BookMark: Lauren Beukes on “The Three” by Sara Lotz
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson talks with Bishop King, founder of the Church of St. John Coltrane, and with Ashley Kahn, author of “A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album.” We hear about the composition and album.
Elliot Perlman is a Barrister in his native Australia. He’s also the author of a novel called “Seven Types of Ambiguity,” told by seven different narrators.
Brain sciences are overturning centuries of old thinking about human nature.
Ilse Blansert says that the community that's grown up around ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) has helped her overcome insomnia, anxiety and an eating disorder. In this extended conversation, she talks about how she discovered that there was a name of the tingles she experiences, and the book she's working on about the phenomenon.
David Liss talks about how different trials were in the 18th century, and explains that modern patterns of thinking were only beginning to take hold.
Spanish writer Teresa Solana writes biting, satirical crime stories set in her native city -- Barcelona. In her latest, she explores the fallout from Spain's economic crisis.
When it comes to loyalty, dogs win. Now, new evidence suggests dogs and early humans formed an alliance 36,000 years ago. Together, they drove Neanderthals to extinction, then invaded and conquered the rest of the planet.
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