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Tim Hansen
How to read music
4:49
Alex Rosenthal
Exploring other dimensions
11:55
Andrew Fitzgerald
Adventures in Twitter fiction
4:13
Amy Harter
Mining literature for deeper meanings
4:54
April Gudenrath
A host of heroes
3:16
Christopher Warner
What is verbal irony?
6:16
Lisa Bu
How books can open your mind
2:38
Christopher Warner
In on a secret? That's dramatic irony
3:00
Christopher Warner
Situational irony: The opposite of what you think
4:23
Liza Donnelly
Inside a cartoonist's world
4:21
Matthew Winkler
What makes a hero?
29:28
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We should all be feminists
3:35
Nadia Kalman
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing
3:59
Tim Adams
An antihero of one's own
5:27
Jane Hirshfield
The art of the metaphor
4:30
Jessica Wise
How fiction can change reality
6:13
April Gudenrath
Insults by Shakespeare
17:16
Chip Kidd
Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
4:26
Jean-Baptiste Michel
The mathematics of history
16:00
Chris Bliss
Comedy is translation
17:38
Steven Johnson
Where good ideas come from
19:45
Elif Shafak
The politics of fiction
29:18
Natalie Merchant
Singing old poems to life
15:56
Helen Fisher
The brain in love
16:14
Chris Abani
On humanity
17:36
Chris Abani
Telling stories from Africa
19:08
Bernie Dunlap
The life-long learner
59:34
Edwidge Danticat
Stories of Haiti
17:24
Felix Dennis
Odes to vice and consequences
23:17
C.K. Williams
Poetry of youth and age
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