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Episode 695: Valerie Tiberius - What Do You Want Out Of Life?
Episode 694: Martin Riker - The Guest Lecture
Episode 693: Paul Harding - This Other Eden
Episode 692: Dr. David Alfery: Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between
Episode 691: Philip Kitcher - On John Stuart Mill
Episode 690: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina - Your Table Is Ready: Tales Of A New York City Maitre D'
Episode 689: Brian Thomas Swimme - Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
Episode 688: John Lingan - A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Episode 688: Ben Ehrlich - The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
Episode 687: Peter Robison - Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Episode 686: Lauren Acampora - The Hundred Waters
Episode 685: Russell Wild - Bond Investing for Dummies
Episode 684: Dr. Jay Baruch - Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER
Episode 684: Kieran Setiya - Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Episode 683: A.M. Homes - The Unfolding
Episode 682: Louise Willder - Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion
Episode 681: Peter Ward - The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
Episode 680: Steve Stern - The Village Idiot
Episode 679: Greg Steinmetz - American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
Episode 678: Alec NevalaLee - nventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Episode 677: Andrew Nagorski - Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
Episode 676: Alice Feiring - To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir
Episode 675: Jessica Nordell - The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Episode 674: Victor Manibo - The Sleepless
Episode 674: Lars Chittka - The Mind Of A Bee
Episode 673: Lynne Tillman - MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
Episode 672: Jerry Stahl - Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
Episode 671: F. H. Buckley - Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party
Episode 670: Kimberly Unger - The Extractionist
Episode 669: Victoria Shepherd: A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
Episode 668: Paul Thagard: Balance: How It Works and What It Means
Episode 668: Jess Walter - The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
Episode 667: Alexandra Lange - Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Episode 666: Lydia Hopper - Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives
Episode 665: Fiona Murphy - The Shape of Sound
Episode 664: Roberto J. González - War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future
Episode 663: Daniel Graham - An Internet in Your Head: A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works
Episode 662: Anne Skomorowsky - The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About...
Episode 661: Edward J. Gillin - Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Episode 660: Stephanie D. Preston - The Altruistic Urge: Why We're Driven to Help Others
Episode 659: Michelle R. Warren - Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet
Episode 658: Kenneth D. Frank - Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity
Episode 657: The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel
Episode 656: Riley Black - The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Episode 655: Alma Katsu - The Fervor
Episode 654: Andy Secher - Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
Episode 653: Luke Munn - Automaton Is A Myth
Episode 652: Richard Ambron - The Brain and Pain: Breakthroughs in Neuroscience
Episode 651: Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley - The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI
Episode 651: Michael Meyer - Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
Episode 650: Kate Quinn - The Diamond Eye
Episode 648: Andrew DeYoung - The Temps
Episode 647: Scott Nations - The Anxious Investor
Episode 646: Interview with Stewart O'Nan - Ocean State
Episode 645: Jason Baxter - The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
Episode 644: Louise Candlish - The Heights
Episode 643: Bill Hayes - Sweat: A History of Exercise
Episode 642: Garrett Hongo - The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo
Episode 641: Patrick O'Leary - 51
Episode 641: David J. Chalmers - Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Episode 640: Azar Nafisi - Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Episode 640: Sequoia Nagamatsu - How Hight We Go In The Dark
Episode 639: Dr. Mark Vonnegut - The Heart of Caring: A Life In Pediatrics
Episode 638: Kerri Maher - The Paris Bookseller
Episode 637: John Koenig - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Episode 636: Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
Episode 635: Jerad Alexander - Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
Episode 634: Lily King - Five Tuesdays In Winter
Episode 634: Bill Schutt - Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
Episode 633: Andrew Kaufman - The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
Episode 632: Heather Clark - Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Episode 631: Claire Vaye Watkins - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Episode 631: Donald Antrim - One Friday In April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
Episode 630: Kimberly Harrington - But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, In Pieces and Bits
Episode 629: Eugene Lim - Search History
Episode 629: Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars
Episode 628: Erica Buist - This Party's Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World’s Death Festivals
Episode 627: Mary Roach - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law
Episode 626: Nick McDonell - The Council of Animals
Episode 625: Ned Palmer - A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles
Episode 624: Rose Eveleth - Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows
Episode 623: Emeran Mayer - The Gut-Immune Connection
Episode 622: Joshua Henkin - Morningside Heights
Episode 621: Melissa Scholes Young - The Hive
Episode 621: Rebecca Schwarzlose - Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain—And How They Guide You
Episode 620: Brandy Schillace - Mr Humble & Dr. Butcher
Episode 620: Lee Durkee - The Last Taxi Driver
Episode 619: Kate Lebo - The Book Of Difficult Fruit
Episode 619: Sarah Ruden - The Gospels: A New Translation
Episode 618: Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Episode 618: 1Q1A with Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Episode 617: Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Episode 617: Stephen Leigh - Amid The Crowd Of Stars
Episode 616: Frank Wilczek - Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality
Episode 615: David Arnold - The Electric Kingdom
Episode 614: Nicole Perlroth - This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
Episode 613: Blake Bailey - The Biography of Philip Roth
Episode 613: D. Eric Maikranz - The Reincarnationist Papers
Episode 612: Walter Isaacson - The Code Breaker
Episode 611: Michael Spitzer - The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth