Glenn Kay talks to Jim Fleming about some of the 300 zombie films he has seen, rated, and reviewed.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Harold Schechter tells Anne Strainchamps that violence has always been an important part of popular entertainment and our ancestors enjoyed truly grisly spectacles.
Gary Brecher is a data entry clerk in Fresno, California. But he's better known as "War Nerd," which is the title of his column in Moscow's English language alternative newspaper and his book, "The War Nerd."
Greil Marcus tells Steve Paulson that self-invention has been a part of American nationhood since Puritan times.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight. When his tour ended, he collected his poems into a book called "Here, Bullet." This one is called "A Night in Blue."
George Dyson tells Anne Strainchamps that his father was on the team that imagined using tiny atomic bombs to propel a huge spaceship around the solar system.
How does what you believe affect how you die? Watch as a historian, a psychologist and a sociologist talk about how people around the world confront their mortality.
Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, recalls his coming of age in his novel, “Lake Woebegon: Summer of 1956.”
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