Charles Yu is the author of a critically acclaimed new novel, "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
<p>Novelist, actor, screenwriter and playwright Ayad Akhtar talks about growing up in a Pakistani-American household in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.</p>
Daniel Smith talks about his book, "Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety."
Film critic David Edelstein talks with Jim Fleming about angels in the movies, and we hear lots of examples.
John Waters recommends the 1968 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film, "Boom!"
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.
Boz Temple-Morris, the co-founder and Marketing Director of the Enlightened Tobacco Company, tells Steve Paulson the company was all about truth in advertising.
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