An account of Charles Bukowski's 1978 European trip. In 1978 Europe was new territory for Bukowski holding the secrets of his own personal ancestry and origins.

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

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