Rob Tannenbaum and Sean Altman wrote and perform the music and comedy show called “What I Like About Jew.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Rebecca Spang tells Judith Strasser that "restaurant" originally meant a cup of broth and explains how it evolved into the culinary paradise we know today.
Kamran Nazeer tells Anne Strainchamps about his own autism and about some of the other autistic children he went to school with and what happened to them.
Jason Roberts tells Anne Strainchamps about James Holman, who traveled all over the world in the nineteenth century and wrote travel books, despite being blind.
Miles Hyman is Shirley Jackson's grandson. He's an artist who specializes in graphic novels and adaptations of classic literature. His latest book has a lot of personal meaning for him. It's a graphic adaptation of his grandmother's most famous short story, "The Lottery." Hyman talks about how and why he took on this challenging task.
Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.
Kelly Link tells Anne Strainchamps where some of her stories came from and about answering customers' questions in a Boston bookstore.
Jeremy Seifert fed his family on pickings from the local dumpsters in Los Angeles California. The adventure awakened him to the immense waste of food going on in America every day. The result is his documentary "Dive!" which tackles food waste in our throw-away culture.
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