Recently I randomly came across the book Dear Prof Dyson (https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Professor-Dyson-Correspondence-U...) in Half Price Books. I had loved Dyson’s literary-scientific style from Disturbing the Universe so bought this one, too. His patience in answering letters from undergrads on topics ranging from physics to philosophy is amazing, what a learned man! It seems like having a literary bent was more common among scientists in older times compared to now.

On a different note, the bombing event at UCSB mentioned at the event was very interesting, never heard of it before, here’s more information in case you want to dig in: https://livinghistory.as.ucsb.edu/2019/12/04/faculty-club-bo...