Author Suzanne McConnell offers her warm and candid memories of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. McConnell studied under the great author at the University of Iowa.

Jake Rossen details the history of the Man of Steel’s ventures outside the covers of his comic book home in this great little book.

David Hajdu comes to discuss his new book on the comic books scandals of the 1950’s, but first Gary asks about Hajdu’s previous book, Positively 4th Street, a book about the young Bob Dylan. Its all

Seth Shulman set out to write about Alexander Graham Bell, but discovered a surprising little detail about Bell’s greatest invention: it was stolen from somebody else!

The creator of Family Ties and Spin City joins us this week for a great discussion of his work and his new memoir. Gary David Goldberg meets Gary Lawrence Shapiro!