Ian Kirsch News Today

coming up next, book tv present "after words," an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week a plant science writer james gleick discusses his latest work, "a history of information," beginning with the development of various alphabets and ending with what is expected next from the information age. the author of "chaos" chronicles the evolution of how faults and small which have been passed from one to another throughout human history. he talks with fr...