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Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives

For TTBOOK host Anne Strainchamps her only encounters with guns happened in the pages of crime fiction -- usually, stories featuring women. Give her a woman and a gun and she was there for 200 plus pages.   Kinsey Milhone, VI Warshawski, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew…She could name dozens of fictional female crime fighters -- but not one real-life woman detective.  

That was until she picked up historian Erika Janik’s latest, “Pistols and Petticoats.”   It’s the story of how women moved from crime solving in fiction to the real world.   

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Moustafa Bayoumi on Being Young & Arab in America

Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.

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On Our Minds: Poet Nikki Giovanni

 Inspired by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and by African-American activists and artists Giovanni’s poetry has become synonymous with the struggle of African-Americans, and especially the struggle of Black women.

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Jim Lee on Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is 70! Jim Lee drew the updated Wonder Woman and describes her to Steve Paulson.

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Neil Gaiman on "American Gods"

Neil Gaiman is among the most celebrated writers of the fantastic. He's a transplant to the Midwest who discovered the House on the Rock in Spring Green, WI...

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Maude Barlow on Who Owns Water?

Maude Barlow is the co-author (with Tony Clark) of “Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Theft of the World’s Water.”  She tells Jim Fleming that corporations are taking over the world’s water, often with the assistance of governments who privatize municipal water systems.

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Kurt Vonnegut on Humor and War

Steve Paulson spoke with Kurt Vonnegut just after his 83rd birthday, and Vonnegut recalled his experiences during the fire-bombing of Dresden.

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Randall Kennedy on "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal"

Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."

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