Helen DeWitt tells Anne Strainchamps about her novel, "Lightning Rods," which focuses on a bizarre solution to sexual harrassment in the workplace.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gerard Jones tells Steve Paulson, a dad himself, that children need to be able to “destroy” the things that scare them.
Henry the Eighth needed a "fixer" to make his break from the Church of Rome and his many marriages legal in England. That man was Thomas Cromwell.
Gus Russo tells Jim Fleming that organized crime has attempted to influence the presidential election on several occasions and finds it significant that Frank Sinatra acted as a gangster’s daughter’s prom date.
Geneva Handy Southall tells Jim Fleming about Blind Tom, a nineteenth century American prodigy who could reproduce any sound he heard.
Grace Tiffany’s new novel is called “Will.” She talks about the Will Shakespeare in her mind with Anne Strainchamps.
Harvey Shapiro is the editor of a collection called “Poets of World War II.” He was a gunner himself during the war.
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman talks about her book, "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking."
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