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Wallace Baine on February 20, 2019
Let’s hope that sci-fi and fantasy novelist Charlie Jane Anders has plenty of shelf space at home, because otherwise she’s got a storage unit somewhere jammed with awards. The San Francisco writer, podcaster and literary troublemaker has already won a Hugo, a Nebula, a Crawford, a Sturgeon, a Locus and a Lambda…
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André Jaquez on December 6, 2017
Former Vice President Al Gore returns with an updated message on the looming impact of global warming. He made waves by outlining the devastating impact rising sea levels would have on the planet in his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth—which earned him and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a piece of…
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André Jaquez on November 1, 2017
As the fearless, freewheeling frontman of metal giants Iron Maiden, no obstacle was too high for the leaping and bounding Bruce Dickinson. In 2014 that all changed when doctors discovered a large cancerous lump in his tongue. Dickinson’s 40-year career manning the cockpit for Iron Maiden—quite literally; he is the band’s singer…
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Satvir Saini on October 13, 2017
In a new book by author Dave Eggers and illustrator Shawn Harris, Her Right Foot, Eggers discovers the history behind the Statue of Liberty’s right foot being in mid-stride. She is moving forward. Eggers is known as the founder of McSweeney’s and for his many literary works, including A Heartbreaking Work of…
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Satvir Saini on October 11, 2017
Those familiar with Diane Keaton’s long and storied career know she is a Renaissance woman. The Oscar-winning actress behind such beloved characters as Annie Hall and Kay Adams is also a producer, director and—apparently—a master of Pinterest. Her new book, The House That Pinterest Built, details how she has used the digital…
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Yousif Kassab on June 26, 2017
Feminist, author and college professor Roxane Gay is coming to Kepler’s to discuss her new book, Hunger. Despite a body of work that has set its sights on society as a whole—discussing pop culture, feminism and identity—her new work sees her turning that focus inward. Through her personal story she explores the…
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