Ken Croswell’s new book is called “Magnificent Mars.” It’s a picture book of the Red Planet, so he’s all excited about the new NASA Mars Rovers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Leonard Todd wrote "Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave" to explore the history of two families - Potter Dave's and his own.
In 2001, reporter Marja Mills met the celebrated and notoriously private author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee. The two struck up a friendship and, a few years after their first meeting, the two became neighbors. Mills writes about their friendship in her new memoir, “The Mockingbird Next Door.”
Richard Powers reads an excerpt from his novel, "Orfeo," inspired by the music of Mahler and set to Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder."
Jerome Wakefield tells Steve Paulson how the medical profession's attempts to make precise diagnoses have led them to define emotional states as medical conditions.
Australian novelist Peter Carey talks with Steve Paulson about "My Life as a Fake," and the peculiar career of the great Australian poet who never existed.
A New York Times film critic talks about the role of film criticism in contemporary society.
Robert Kull chose to live completely alone off the coast of Chile for a year. He tells Anne Strainchamps the hardest part was the mental challenges he faced, not the weather or coping with his prosthetic leg.
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