The past is a fascinating place to visit, especially when you consider how little it would take to make it an entirely different place.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Laurel Kendall is one of the curators of "Mythic Creatures," a blockbuster exhibition at the American Natural History Museum.
In this UNCUT interview, Pico Iyer tells Jim Fleming about his obsession with novelist Graham Greene. That obsession is also the subject of Iyer's new book, "The Man Within My Head".
Jim Fleming talks with Jonathan Lethem about Dick whom Lethem calls “science fiction’s Lenny Bruce.”
James McBride won the National Book Award for "The Good Lord Bird," his novel about the abolitionist John Brown. He explains why he doesn't like most fictional portraits of slavery and how he tried to tell a different story.
Katherine Ramsland set out to track down a ghost and chronicles her adventures in search of the paranormal in her book “Ghost: Investigating the Other Side.”
Mark Moskowitz made a film called “The Stone Reader” about his search for Dow Mossman, the author of a rapturously reviewed 1972 novel called “The Stones of Summer.”
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