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Edward Teller, who agreed in 1988 to let me interview him after he heard the title of my book “How to Raise Your I.Q. By Eating Gifted Children,” for which of course I love him is one of the most important and controversial scientists of the 20th century. At the […]
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Originally Aired in 1999; David Foster Wallace was a bedeviled wunderkind who had already written several books by the time he was 22. His best-known work was Infinite Jest, which takes on additional irony when one considers that Wallace committed suicide in 2008. During his lifetime he produced novels, essays, […]
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Yes, Hyatt Bass wrote, directed and produced the film “75 Degrees in July,” which was released in 2006 and now she has written a smoldering novel called “Embers” about family. . . that Publisher’s Weekly called “A riveting narrative. . . “ Hyatt is not only talented she is a […]
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David Morrell, creator of “Rambo,” and an old buddy of mine, who once set one of his characters in my apartment, stops by to discuss his new book The Shimmering and tell me about Thrillerfest in NYC where he is being honored by the likes of Joseph Finder, Clive Cussler, […]
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Jean Thompson has been called “America’s Alice Munro . . .one of the best contemporary short-story writers,” by Kirkus Reviews. Is she? Make up your own mind as I discuss her new volume “do not deny me,” with her. Or pick up one of her other collections, “Throw Like a […]
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“And as the astronauts later sat in the “Eagle”, waiting to begin their journey back home, knowing that they were doomed unless every system and part on board worked flawlessly, it was Aldrin who responded to mission control’s clearance to take off with the quip, “Roger. Understand. We’re number one […]
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Get to know Brian Shields, a talented and charming young man who has written a New York Times best-seller in the form of an Encyclopedia of The World Wide Wrestling Federation. Were you ever curious about how just old Hulk Hogan really is, or how tall? Or who in real-life […]
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Shanghai was once the Paris of Asia, beautiful women, gangsters, gambling, mystery and adventure. Lisa See sets her elegantly written novel of two sisters, in the Shanghai of 1937 to 1957, the period when the city was at its most glamourous and dangerous. See who wrote Peony In Love, Snow […]
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Dave Barry said of Gina Barreca, author of “They Used To Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted,” “Gina Barreca is very, very funny. For a woman.” And she is. Gina could as easily be a great stand-up comic as the writer and scholar she is. She stops by to […]
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“Atlas of Unknowns” is a sisterhood tale from India like nothing you’ve ever read before. Sample the bright new fiction of Tania James a young talent Knopf plucked right out of Harvard and Columbia journalism school. Nathan Englander calls her “The Real Deal.” Judge for yourself.
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