Garret Keizer talks about his book, "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise."
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.
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.
TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen visits with chef Homaro Cantu at his genre-bending, high-tech Chicago restaurant called Moto.
Medievalist Bruce Holsinger writes historical fiction starring some names familiar to English majors -- Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. They were poets but in Holsinger's novels they also deal in secrets.
Gordon Grice is an English professor and a life-long insect hobbyist. He tells Steve Palson about the praying mantis.
Harvey Kaye talks with Steve Paulson about visionary founding father Thomas Paine.
Gretchen Reynolds talks with Jim Fleming about the theories concerning running and the body.