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Architect Lisa Mahar is the author of “American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66.”  She says that the signs started out plain, but became grandiose neon monuments by the 1950s.

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The scientific genius Kurt Godel is on our minds this week.  So Anne Strainchamps talks with the French writer, Yannick Grannec, about her novel, "The Goddess of Small Things," which is based on Godel's relationship with his wife, Adele.

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In this UNCUT interview, actor, playwrite and author, Najla Said talks with Anne about growing up Palestinian-American and her new book "Looking for Palestine."

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Mimi Sheraton is the author of “The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World.”  She explains what she found when she traveled to Bialystock.

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Gram Rabbit is a rock band whose members live in the Joshua Tree Desert.  Their CD is called "Music to Start a Cult to."

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Biographer Joan Schenkar thinks Patricia Highsmith deserves to be recognized as the author of one of the great American novels.

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Luke Rhinehart published a novel in the 70s that became a cult classic. “The Dice Man” involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced

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What’s happening in our brains when we talk or sing or play music? Are language and music different neural processes? Neuroscientist Charles Limb peaks into the mind of a particular kind of musician... rappers.

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