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Final Chapter: Listening to Your Suggestions: This summer, we've talked to authors, scientists, performers and others to find out what they've been reading, for work and for fun. We also asked our listeners to tell us what books have kept them up through the night, eager to find out how the story ends.
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A History Both Global and Personal: Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes completes his four-book study of world history that began with The Age of Revolution in 1962. Author and historian Michael Kazin talks about its significance.
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Charles Johnson, Combing the Historical Record: Charles Johnson is a renowned novelist, essayist and writer of short stories. His novel Middle Passage won the 1990 National Book Award. Lately, his own reading has been directed at an upcoming historical work.
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'Fathers and Sons': A Ravishing Knockout of a Book: Author Gary Shteyngart says his favorite novel is Fathers and Sons. Ivan Turgenev's story of two young men and their families "explains just about everything you need to know about families, love, heartache, religion, duels and the institution of serfdom in 19th-century Russia."
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The Funniest, and Scariest, Book Ever Written: Writer Charles Baxter offers praise for Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, which can be confusing, comical and harrowing. "Novels like The Third Policeman can sometimes throw readers into a panic," Baxter says. "They ask, 'What on earth is this?"
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Amanda Vincent, Diving into the World of Words: Dr. Amanda Vincent directs Project Seahorse at the University of British Columbia, conducting research on sustainable use of the world's coastal marine ecosystems. She's this week's summer reader.
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Seeing Flowers in a New Way, Through Loren Eiseley: Given his status as a political writer, Michael Lind may seem to come from left field with his must-read recommendation: Loren Eiseley's essay "How Flowers Changed the World," which takes an expansive view of botany's impact on humans. Eiseley, Lind says, is capable of cinematic constructs that are "breathtaking."
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'The Stranger' on Bush's Summer Reading List: Albert Camus' existential novel The Stranger is on President Bush's summer reading list. Jim Asher, chair of the English department at Pasadena High School in Southern California, talks with Madeleine Brand about why the book might be on the busy president's agenda. The classic novel is on the summer reading list his high school, too.
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