Carolyn Smith

A Year Of Wearing Clothing Only Made By Hand

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Could you trade the convenience of instant-purchase online clothing stores for a wardrobe you made yourself? Carolyn Smith went for an even bigger challenge: only wearing clothing she made by hand for a full year.More

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From High Fashion to Heather Gray T-Shirts, Choosing Your Style Is A Privilege

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Avery Trufelman hosts "Articles of Interest," a six-part podcast from "99 Percent Invisible" about some iconic items of clothing — from blue jeans to Hawaiian shirts to pockets. Anne wanted to know how that work connects to what she wears every day.

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10:35

Finding Yourself By Finding Your Style

The many Angelo styles
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Choosing what to put on your body is more than just taking something off a hanger and praying it fits. When you get dressed in the morning, you’re constructing an identity. That’s complicated, as producer Angelo Bautista discovered.

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13:40

'This Novel Has Hurt Everyone Around Me': A Frank Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard has published six volumes of intensely personal descriptions of his daily life. But his “honesty” cost him some of his closest relationships, including his marriage.

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13:29

A Pandemic Holiday Season Offers Opportunities For Community, Too

A Zoom holiday is just one option for re-thinking how you celebrate this year.
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Priya Parker challenges us to question why we have certain traditions, and to be open to creating new ones that fit this unusual holiday time.

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14:54

When It's Real, The Stakes Are Higher

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Terese Marie Mailhot's brave and beautiful memoir about life on a Pacific Northwest reservation is making waves. She originally intended to tell her story as fiction, but ultimately made the difficult decision to write the whole, painful truth.
 

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13:36

Stanley Weintraub on the World War I Christmas Truce

The Illustrated London News's illustration of the Christmas Truce
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In 1914, over the week leading up to Christmas day, the opposing troops sang carols to each other, played ball and exchanged gifts, in spite of their generals’ wishes. Historian Stanley Weintraub says that the Christmas Truce was a one-time-only event.

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7:31

Stephen Sondheim — Art of the Musical

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Stephen Sondheim is the reigning genius of musical theater, with credits ranging from "West Side Story" and "Gypsy" to "Sweeney Todd "and "Into the Woods." In this interview from 2013, Sondheim gives Steve Paulson a few pointers on how to write both music and lyrics.

Helen Macdonald On 'The Dark Is Rising'

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Every year, at holiday time, "H is for Hawk" author Helen Macdonald reads this tale of a boy who finds out he's one of the "old ones," part of a series from author Susan Cooper. She says it reconnects her with a sense of wonder inspired by what might lurk beneath the surface of the seen world.

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3:20