Deja Vu All Over Again
Neuro-psychologist Chris Moulin studies deja vu and memory . Lawrence Hatab describes Nietzsche's concept of Eternal Recurrence. Wendy Lesser reads from her essay about viewing Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Rivka Galchen’s novel deals with the disconnect of the familiar.

Chris Moulin is a cognitive neuro-psychologist at Leeds University. He tells Anne Strainchamps about his work involving the phenomenon of deja vu. There's a link to Moulin's blog at our website, ttbook.org.

We hear a clip from the 2007 film "When Nietzsche Wept" which introduces the concept of "eternal recurrence." That's the subject of Lawrence Hatab's book "Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence." Hatab tells Steve Paulson that the philosopher spells out his notion of a constantly self-renewing universe in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."

Art critic, novelist and editor Wendy Lesser reads excerpts from her essay "Hitchcock's Vertigo." Doug Gordon produced this piece in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hitchcock masterpiece, which was released in 1958. Lesser's essay appears in her book, "Nothing Remains the Same: Re-Reading and Remembering."

Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances." She talks with Jim Fleming about the book, and we hear an excerpt from the audio-book version read by Malcolm Hillgartner.

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