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18:27
Michelle Kuo
The healing power of reading
4:53
Scott Peeples
Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?
5:27
Francisco Díez-Buzo
Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
4:59
Elizabeth Cox
What really happened to the Library of Alexandria?
13:53
Dawn Wacek
A librarian's case against overdue book fines
5:03
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Charles Dickens?
7:57
Tomas Elemans
The inspiring truth in fiction
6:09
Brendan Pelsue
Why should you read "Macbeth"?
5:59
Sam Slote
Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"?
5:36
Mark Robinson
Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"?
6:03
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Virginia Woolf?
4:22
Stephen Bax
The world's most mysterious book
5:10
Brendan Pelsue
Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"?
15:55
Anne Lamott
12 truths I learned from life and writing
4:23
Chand John
What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?
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Juliane Gallina
A library of minds
10:36
Gene Luen Yang
Comics belong in the classroom
12:15
Martina Flor
The secret language of letter design
13:21
Oded Shoseyov
How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers
12:58
Lidia Yuknavitch
The beauty of being a misfit
12:51
G. Willow Wilson
The story behind Marvel's Muslim-American superheroine
12:07
Gregory Heyworth
How I'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts
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Ann Morgan
My year reading a book from every country in the world
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Aditi Gupta
A taboo-free way to talk about periods
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Chip Kidd
The art of first impressions -- in design and life
6:01
Joshua Prager
Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
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Brian Dettmer
Old books reborn as art
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Why lunch ladies are heroes
16:59
Mac Barnett
Why a good book is a secret door
5:03
Kate Messner
How to build a fictional world
5:05
John McWhorter
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages?
13:11
Parul Sehgal
An ode to envy
15:44
Ron McCallum
How technology allowed me to read
11:54
Juan Pablo Sáez Gil
La magia de los palíndromos
10:20
Frederic Kaplan
How to build an information time machine
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka
How a boy became an artist
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