A Conversation with Judy Blume
February 19, 2013What makes a children’s book a classic and how is literature for young people changing today?
What makes a children’s book a classic and how is literature for young people changing today?
What will it take to preserve the remaining few pristine marine ecosystems on the planet?
What drives a writer to tell important stories and do the hard work to tell them well?
How did the War of 1812 impact the future of slavery and the roles African Americans would play in the U.S. Military and in future conflicts?
What can we learn from 140-year-old photographs of a place and way of life that just doesn’t exist anymore?
How does a city identify itself? How do you see Dallas and Fort Worth and their differences?
Could our democracy work better if we viewed the Constitution as merely a set of guidelines rather than the supreme law of the land?
What makes a character actor good at his or her job and what’s it like to play ordinary people in the movies?
How did our particular branch of the human family tree manage to last this long when many others didn’t?
Do you dream of seeing the world, but wonder how to make it happen?