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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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On Our Minds: Poet Nikki Giovanni

 Inspired by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and by African-American activists and artists Giovanni’s poetry has become synonymous with the struggle of African-Americans, and especially the struggle of Black women.

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Lynda Barry on Writing the Unthinkable

Can you learn to be more creative?  You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable." 

You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.

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Robert Logan on "Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan"

Robert Logan is the author of "Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan." He talks to Anne Strainchamps about their friendship and the great man's work.

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Jonathan Lethem on "Chronic City"

Jonathan Lethem's new novel is "Chronic City." The book has been described as a cross between the famous borough-centric New Yorker cartoon and the darkest episode of "Seinfeld."

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Overcoming Racism

What happens when you discover racial fear in yourself? Rachel Shadoan recently reached an uncomfortable conclusion: she was afraid of black men. Rachel was appalled and decided to do something about it. She tells her story in an article titled, "I am racist and so are you."

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Katharine Rogers on the Land of Oz

Katharine Rogers tells Jim Fleming that there’s a lot more to Oz than the Wizard, and that Baum always loved the theater and would have been thrilled by the Judy Garland movie.

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Julian Barnes on "The Sense of an Ending"

Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending" won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.  Barnes talks with Steve Paulson about the complications of memory, aging and moral reckoning.

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