Book Talk
Controversy and scandal in the literary world as Jonah Lehrer, the upcoming star and staff writer for the New Yorker is forces to resign after admitting he had made up Bob Dylan quotes to support his theory on creativity in his most recent publication Imagine. It being Shark Week at BreakThru Radio, I review a collection of shark attack tales from Australian writer Robert Reid. Finally, I revisit an interview from March 2011 with Laura Hillenbrand who writes the harrowing tale of Captain Louie Zamperini, the World War Two bombardier who crashed into the Pacific Ocean and survived weeks at sea, fighting off, and even hunting, sharks.
Imagine: How Creativity Works
Shark! Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths
Unbroken
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