Natasha Trethewey read Miscegenation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
Intrepid TTBOOK intern John Pederson visits local bee keeper Mary Seeley as she's setting up some new hives.
Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.
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.
In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Richard Schweid loves eels. He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem talks about the work of Philip K. Dick. Dick is one of Lethem's literary heroes.
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