This hour, we’ll talk to Emily St. John Mandel about her novel Station Eleven, a National Book Award finalist.
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The Price Of Perpetual War
This hour, we’ll talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen, who writes about how war has affected the country in his new book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War.
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The Changing Face Of America
This hour, we’ll talk about how America’s growing Latino population is affecting everything from politics to cultural identity with Neil Foley, the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at SMU. His new book is Mexicans in the Making of America.
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Talking TED Talks
This hour, we’ll talk to Kelly Stoetzel, content director of TED, about how the series has grown into a global intellectual force.
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The Rise Of Tabloid Politics
This hour, we’ll talk about how Gary Hart’s rise and fall changed the way we think about politicians with Yahoo’s national political columnist Matt Bai, author of All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid.
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Tiny Particles, Big Impact
This hour, we’ll talk to SMU physicist Thomas E. Coan about his current study of neutrinos, which may help scientists explain the origins of matter and how the universe functions.
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How To Write A Novel (In A Month!)
This hour, we’ll learn why we’re just four weeks away from our first book with Chris Baty, author of No Plot? No Problem! A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.
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Election Preview
This hour, we’ll check in on the key races both in North Texas and around the state with KERA’s Shelley Kofler and Gromer Jeffers of The Dallas Morning News.
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A Master Of War
This hour, we’ll get to know the man who nearly brought the Union Army to its knees with S.C. Gwynne, author of Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson.
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A Papal Primer
This hour, we’ll talk about the pope’s plans to modernize the 2,000 year-old institution with Elisabetta Piqué, author of Pope Francis: Life and Revolution – A Biography of Jorge Bergoglio.
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A Chat With Jodi Picoult
This hour, we’ll talk to her about her latest effort, Leaving Time (Ballantine Books), which focuses on a woman’s search for her missing mother.
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Powerful Waves
This hour, we’ll talk about how everyone from car companies to restaurants to filmmakers use sound to subtly plant ideas in our brains with composer Joel Beckerman. He explains how they do it in his book The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms What We Think, Feel, and Buy.
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