Storytelling

Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee's unorthodox childhood and life certainly inform her comedy, and served as material for her new memoir I know I am, but what are you? It's a collection of vignettes about stepmothers, sex ed, and grand theft auto.

Kindle uses one kind of format for electronic books. iPad uses another. And at a big trade show for publishers, there was a call for a universal standard format for electronic books. It's more like competing standards for VCR tape than the cooperation that launched CDs... But no doubt, how people read is changing.

The Takeaway 6/3/10, Hosts: Celeste Headlee & John Hockenberry. Future Tense 6/2/10, Host: John Moe.

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Modern Fable

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