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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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Paul Hawken on "Blessed Unrest"

Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.

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Oliver Sacks on Musicophilia

Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for his stories of people with brain disorders.  In his book "Musicophilia," he writes about people who were transformed by music. 

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Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick's Novels

Novelist Jonathan Lethem talks about the work of Philip K. Dick.  Dick is one of Lethem's literary heroes.

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On Our Minds: Responding to Ebola

With the international community sending doctors and resources to help stop Ebola's spread across West Africa, we turn to medical historian Gregg Mitman to help us understand the history behind how people are responding to the outbreak. 

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Jeff MacGregor on NASCAR

Sports Illustrated writer Jeff MacGregor spent a year on the NASCAR circuit and writes about it in "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!"

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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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Nathan Radke on Sartre and Charlie Brown

Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism. 

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