Gordon Grice is an English professor and a life-long insect hobbyist. He tells Steve Palson about the praying mantis.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Harvey Kaye talks with Steve Paulson about visionary founding father Thomas Paine.
Garret Keizer talks about his book, "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise."
Geraldine Brooks has written a novel which creates a fictional history for a real book – the remarkable, rare, illuminated Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight. When his tour ended, he collected his poems into a book called "Here, Bullet." This one is called "A Night in Blue."
In his book, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, P.D. Smith writes that city living has shaped humanity's past and laid the foundation for our future.
Chuck Klosterman talks about his new book, "I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)."
British comedian Dave Gorman decided to meet as many of the people who share his name as possible. His hobby turned into a hit one-man stage show and a book called “Are You Dave Gorman?”
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