Polar science becomes art in the hands of novelist Lucy Jane Bledsoe ("Big Bang Symphony") and musician Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky). Here are some of their impressions of the continent they can't forget.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Simon Rich talks about his new collection of humorous short stories, "Spoiled Brats."
Susan Vreeland talks about why she’s so attracted to the world of art, and why Emily Carr, the subject of her latest book, loved the First Nations’ people and their art.
Karen Michel got to know her neighbors by asking them three questions about the meaning of life.
Author of "Farm City" faces a drawback to her urban farm dream in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
Keren David is a young adult author who has imagined just what living in the Witness Protection Program might mean.
Novelist Mary Gordon used to bristle at the label "Catholic writer," but she's made peace with it now.
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