The Leonard Lopate Show

Physics of the Impossible

Physicist Michio Kaku says that recent scientific advances could be making impossible-sounding things like telepathy and time travel possible! His new book is Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel.

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The Story of Forgetting

Stefan Merrill Block’s debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, weaves together the stories of a 15-year-old science nerd and an elderly hunchback, both living in Texas.

Events: Stefan Merrill Block will be speaking and signing books
Monday, April 7 at 8 pm
Rocky Sullivan’s
34 Van Dyke Street (at Dwight Street)
Red Hook, NY

Stefan Merrill Block will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, April 9 at 8 pm
Happy Endings Bar
302 Broome Street (at Forsyth Street)

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Isabel Allende’s New Memoir

In Isabel Allende’s second memoir, The Sum of Our Days, she writes about love, marriage, the writing life, her close family relationships, and the difficulties of dealing with her daughter Paula’s death.

Event: Isabel Allende will be speaking and signing books
Monday, April 7 at 7 pm
Union Square Barnes & Noble
33 East 17th Street

Listen to Isabel Allende talk about her novel Ines of My Soul on the Lopate Show in 2006

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Sergio Ramirez on the History of Nicaragua

Sergio Ramirez is a leading Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served as vice president of the country from 1984 until 1990. His book on the history of Nicaragua, Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, has now been translated into English.

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