Rachel Cohen tells Steve Paulson that Ulysses S. Grant owed his publishing success to Mark Twain, and many other unlikely connection stories.
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Alan Dale says laughing at slapstick is - at its heart - an expression of our sympathy with TV and film characters who get hurt. He says it's also relief that, for once, it's not us in pain.
The style of type used by the Obama campaign is called Gotham and was designed by the team of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
Cognitive researcher Douglas Hofstadter explains how gendered words and phrases — like using "guys" to refer to mixed company — can oftentimes reinforce sexist attitudes.
Graphic war photos can be very powerful, but they often elicit complicated and unforeseen reactions among viewers.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
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