Merian C. Cooper dreamed up the original "King Kong." Cooper was an Indiana Jones - type figure himself.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jerry Aronson spent a dozen years filming the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and produced a documentary called "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg."
Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, "What It is" reflects Lynda Barry's belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell.
Odessa Piper is the chef and proprietor of L’Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin and a champion of cuisine prepared from locally available food.
Peter Carey's novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism." Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.
Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
Master gardener Michael Pollan talks about his youthful experiment with growing marijuana and explains how the war on drugs spurred growers into developing a stronger, hardier plant.
The question isn't "seen any good movies lately?" but instead "experienced any good paratexts lately?"
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