Historian Jeremy Black talks with Steve Paulson about James Bond as an agent of the British Empire. He says Bond’s adventures are often set in former British colonies.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Ridge performs a one man show called "Dickens in America," which he wrote with his friend Jim DeVita.
Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
Jon Katz’ latest book is “The New Work of Dogs.” Katz says that Americans are forgetting their pets’ true natures and shouldn’t expect them to be children with fur.
Dominican-born writer Junot Diaz -- the MacArthur genius, Pulitzer Prize-winning author has written some of some of the most brilliant contemporary fiction about the immigrant experience.
Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.
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