Just last week, I talked with author Andrew Levy about his new memoir A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary. The book left me wondering how many colleagues, friends, and loved ones are silently suffering with this sort of pain. As Levy points out, many Americans out there are simply getting by, muddling [...]
Every month I do an art-reading project with first graders in Watts. Every month, their reading skills get better, and I think their art (which is always amazing) becomes more creative. Today we read UFO Diary and then we made spaceships. One girl almost cried because she didn’t feel like her alien looked good enough. [...]
Who’s afraid of the 21st century? Whatever you fear right now (swine flu, SARS, terrorism), be sure to check out this handy, dandy book before getting too scared: Panicology: Two Statisticians Explain What’s Worth Worrying About (And What’s Not) in the 21st Century (Skyhorse Publishing). I interviewed the authors yesterday. Fascinating. Read the entire Q&A [...]
So, as a human race, we generally get a thrill from being scared. However, when it comes to deciphering real news from a bunch of hooey, well, it isn’t so easy to tell fact from fiction at times. In my lastest Q&A, I chatted with Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams about their latest book, Panicology: [...]
If you’re looking for the ultimate in love, lust, and danger, can you really think of a more infamous pair than Bonnie and Clyde? Paul Schneider, author of Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend, chatted with me about his research and what he found when he drove his car throughout America, following the [...]
I sometimes wonder if we really can predict the future. In these uncertain times, it would be nice to know what is about to happen next. Though, if you really think about it, uncertainty is an integral part of modern life–think about sporting events, magic shows, falling in love. All of them are reliant upon [...]
