Frederick Turner is the author of “1929: a Novel of the Jazz Age.” Turner reads from the book and talks with Steve Paulson about its central character, Bix Beiderbeck.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Some people used to complain that the movie didn't live up to the book. Now they're saying the movie doesn't live up to its sequel.
Emily Parker bookmarks Mario Vargas Llosa's "Conversation in the Cathedral."
Christian Lander sees himself as an expert on "Stuff White People Like".
Nick Bostrom's Dangerous Idea? Societies should limit the development of harmful technologies while promoting beneficial ones.
Anthony Loyd tells Steve Paulson why he decided to move to Sarajevo and call himself a photojournalist; what living there during the war was like; and how he ended up with a heroin habit.
Bruce Campbell, (to his chagrin) still best known as “Ash” from “The Evil Dead” movies, talks with Jim Fleming about his memoir, “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor.”
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
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