Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.
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"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto. Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.
Laurell Hamilton has written a series of novels featuring a character called Anita Blake. Anita is a vampire executioner whose day job is raising the dead. Hamilton talks about Anita’s world
Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, co-produced “Beckett on Film.” He talks about the challenges of turning 19 of Samuel Beckett’s plays into films.
The clay tablets found at the Greek palace of Knossos had one of the strangest languages ever discovered. Margalit Fox tells the story of Linear B - and the obsessed, tragic lives of the two people who devoted their lives to cracking the code.
In this UNCUT interview, M.E. Thomas talks with Anne about her book, "Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight."
Americans spend billions of dollars a year on over-the-counter pain relievers. In fact, all over the world, easing pain is big business. And Aspirin’s one of the top sellers. Why? Charles Mann, author of “The Aspirin Wars”, tells Steve Paulson what happened when a German company called Bayer came to America:
Peter Robb tells Steve Paulson that Caravaggio was a violent man with an extensive criminal record, but not a psychopath.
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