Rick Perlstein is an award winning historian and author. His book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America was published by Scribner this year and was named a New York Times notable book of 2008. Perlstein grew up in Milwaukee, and now lives in Chicago. He spoke to Bonnie North in July.
Junot Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. He is an associate professor of creative writing at MIT. He spoke with Stephanie Lecci before his appearance at the Milwaukee Book Festival in October.
Tom Cathcart and Danny Klein are the authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, published by Penguin. They’ve also written Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington, and they’re working on Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates. They met at Harvard more than fifty years ago.
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