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Lyndall Gordon - Emily Dickinson

Lyndall Gordon is a senior research fellow at Oxford University, and the author of several biographies, including "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds."

Liam Vaughan - Manhunt for a Savant

Liam Vaughan is an investigative journalist for Bloomberg and the author of "Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History".

Emerson Brooking - Information Warfare

Emerson Brooking is a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the co-author of "LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media."

David Mikics - Stanley Kubrick

David Mikics is a professor of English at the University of Houston, and the recent author of "Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker."

Peter Marshall - What's Anarchism?

Peter Marshall is a historian from the University of Sussex and the author of "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism."

Adam Zamoyski - Napoleon's Life

Adam Zamoyski is a historian and the author of several books about Napoleon, most recently, "Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth."

Peter Fritzsche - Hitler's First Hundred Days

Peter Fritzsche is a historian at University of Illinois, and the author of several best-selling books, most recently, "Hitler's First Hundred Days: How Germans Embraced the Third Reich."

Marya Hornbacher - Bipolar & Eating Disorders

Marya Hornbacher is a best-selling author of "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia" and "Madness: A Bipolar Life".

Jan Swafford - Classical Composer

Jan Swafford is an American composer and the author of biographies of Charles Ives, Brahms, and most recently, "Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph".

Scott Aaronson - Infinite Universes

Scott Aaronson is a computer scientist and director of UT Austin's Quantum Information Institute.