Shakespeare expert Stephen Greenblatt says Shakespeare believed all rulers suffered from insomnia.
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Celebrated writer, director and actor Simon Pegg talks to Steve Paulson about his love of "Star Wars" and how it fired up his imagination and his career.
Tom Szaky tells Jim Fleming how his company turns candy wrappers and juice bottles into pencil cases and backpacks.
What is water? When Anne Strainchamps asked Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, Kimberly Blaeser called up the story and myth of the Anishinaabe. Blaeser says growing up on the White Earth Reservation, surrounded by lakes, made her who she is today.
Steven Connor says there's much more to ventriloquism than exchanging quips with a wooden dummy. He tells Anne Strainchamps that a lot of this history has to do with the disembodied voice.
William Gibson talks about coining the word "cyberspace" to use in his fiction.
Susan Hirschmann is a legendary children's book editor and founder of Greenwillow Books.
Robin Swicord wrote and directed "The Jane Austen Book Club." She talks with Anne Strainchamps.
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