The Dan Schneider Interviews:
9) Journalist Charlie LeDuff: The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter shoots straight with Dan on his life on the road, The New York Times, masculinity, dumb critics, and political bullshit....
10) Psi writer Brad Steiger: The best-selling investigator of things that go bump in the night tells Dan of his boyhood, his love of cowboys, history, his take on debunkers, and the Top Ten Supernatural Monsters of All Time....
11) Nature essayist Edward Hoagland: The noted nature writer tees off on the world as Dan’s informative and incisive questions unleash a furious passive/aggressive tizzy, a lifetime in the making, in the most bizarre DSI yet!
12) Novelist Daniel Wallace: The writer of the novel Big Fish speaks of his life, and advises younger writers on the ins and outs of the writing process and business....
13) Writer/Poet and Actor George Dickerson: The well-known actor and writer remarks of his careers on stage, television and in film, his connections to artists and politicians, as well as his latest film project....
1) Novelist Charles Johnson: Dan gets the National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson to speak out on his career, literature's sad state, Buddhism, Rod Serling, and deliteracy....
2) Philosopher Daniel Dennett: Dan takes on philosopher Daniel Dennett, whose career proves ideas are not just for quiche-eaters, and who reveals his true feelings about God, Political Correctness, alien abductees, consciousness, and Stephen Jay Gould....
3) Novelist/journalist Pete Hamill: Dan takes on journalist/fictionist Pete Hamill who speaks on his love of painting, Jimmy Breslin, Frank Sinatra, James Joyce, and gives advice for young writers....
4) Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker: Dan converses with the famed scientist, Steven Pinker, on dirty words, pop culture, modern art, and public intellectualism, in the first and only in depth interview for his latest book, The Stuff Of Thought....
5) Poet James A. Emanuel: Dan gets last century's most neglected great published poet, James Emanuel, to speak out in this century, in his only in-depth interview online or in print....
6) Paleontologist Jack Horner: Dan speaks with the famed dinosaur hunter on his latest adventures, growing up in Montana, his experiences in Vietnam, learning disabilities, and, of course, dinosaurs....
7) Essayist Philip Lopate: Dan gets the essayist and film critic Phillip Lopate to discourse on essays, New York, Frank McCourt, James Frey, and the MFA writing mills....
8) Zoologist Desmond Morris: Dan gets the author of The Naked Ape to opine on his youth, Surrealism, religion, the origins of art, and homosexuality....
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