Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American and the author of “Aloft.” He reads a bit from the novel.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We hear a story from Elna Baker, author of “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance.”
Colson Whitehead talks to Steve Paulson about his take on the post-apocalyptic zombie novel, "Zone One."
Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." In 2009, he won the annual Loebner Prize -- awarded to the computer program that comes closest to passing the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. Christian won for being the "most human human."
Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."
Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark. Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."
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