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From the time television arrived on the scene in the 1940s through the heyday of the three major networks into the 1970s, the way people watched TV remained essentially unchanged. Then the introduction of video recording systems and cable altered the relationship between the medium and its viewers.

Dr. David Ikard is an assistant professor of English at Florida State University. His areas of scholarship and research include nineteenth- and twentieth–century American literature, with a specialization in African-American Literature.

What is the future of food writing as a profession and avocation?

Michele Rubin delivers the keynote at this year's DePaul Summer Writing Conference. Rubin is a literary agent with one of the leading agencies in the world - Writers House in New York City - and has represented authors there since 1991.

Bradbury biographer Sam Weller and film critic/historian Jonathan Rosenbaum interview Ray Bradbury from his home in Los Angeles via Skype, and discuss François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, following a screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Listen to this interview with Sam Weller, official biographer to Ray Bradbury, and author of Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews.

Moderator: Margaret Pfeil is on the staff of the Center for Social Concerns at Notre dame University.