(from Tue, Nov 11, 2008)
Celebrated author John Updike reflects on his extensive career as a novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic, and discusses his new novel "The Widows of Eastwick." The new work is a sequel to his 1984 best seller, "The Witches of Eastwick." The author of more than 50 books, Updike received the Pulitzer Prize for two of the novels in his Rabbit series.
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R811111000?itemMD5=934dc6e74b1e3855b70ceb9d4fb03cb7
The preeminent scientist Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Discover magazine recently dubbed him "Darwin’s Rottweiler" for his fierce defense of evolution and Prospect magazine placed him among the top three public intellectuals (with Noam Chomsky and Umberto Eco) worldwide. His award-winning books include The Selfish Gene, in which he first introduced the concept of the "meme," and The Blind Watchmaker, a convincing account of neo-Darwinian theory. In The God Delusion, Dawkins asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has done society, from the Crusades to 9/11.
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