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Writer and teacher Elizabeth Benedict talks about "Mentors, Muses and
Monsters: Thirty Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives." She edited
the book, which features essays by Elizabeth Benedict * Robert Boyers * Jay
Cantor * John Casey * Maud Casey * Christopher Caste...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews local writer Matthew Flaming, author of The
Kingdom of Ohio, a speculative about science in 1900. "The Kingdom of Ohio"
is a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age,
featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P....
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland writer Bill Cameron, author of Chasing
Smoke, a police procedural set in Portland. A cancer-stricken homicide
detective, Skin Kadash, looks into the apparent suicides of several people
who were patients of the same doctor, who happens t...
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Host Laura McCandlish interviews acclaimed memoirist and poet Mary Karr,
author of the bestselling The Liar's Club about her hardscrabble East Texas
childhood and Cherry, her drug-laced, angst-filled coming of age story. With
her characteristic dry wit, Karr now returns wit...
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Host Jim Schumock speaks with John Irving, noted author of such novels as The
World According to Garp, Cider-House Rules, and The Hotel New Hampshire.
His latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River, is the story of a father and
son on the run after a tragic accident. The nov...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews British writer Piers Paul Read, author of The
Death of a Pope, a thriller involving the politics of The Vatican and
liberation theology.
Read is best known for his non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes
Survivors which documented the st...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews A.J. Jacobs, author of "The Guinea Pig Diaries".
Jacobs investigates his own life by doing stunts and writing about it.
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein,
authors of "Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through THose Pearly Gates: Using
Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explain Life, Death, the Afterlife and Everything
in Between."
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Stuart Archer Cohen, author of The Army of the
Republic, a novel of resistance to a repressive government in near-future
America. Stuart Archer Cohen lives in Juneau, Alaska, where he owns Invisible
World, an international company dealing in woo...
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