Keren David is a young adult author who has imagined just what living in the Witness Protection Program might mean.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The evidence is mounting... "we" are mostly who we think we are. Our identities are mental constructs, cobbled together from memory and stories. Jonathan Adler gives us a crash course in narrative identity and mental health.
Novelist Mary Gordon used to bristle at the label "Catholic writer," but she's made peace with it now.
Travel writer Tony Perrotet has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he skipped the Mediterranean tour, choosing Tierra del Fuego or the Amazon over Rome. But the discovery of an ancient guide book launched him on his most exotic journey yet, in the footsteps of the Ancients.
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
Nicholson Baker's latest novel is called "The Anthologist." Baker tells Anne Strainchamps the book's about a writer who longs to be a poet.
Michael Benson is a film-maker who’s compiled an extraordinary book of still photographs. Lawrence Weschler wrote the book’s Afterward.
Can you learn to be more creative? You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable." In this EXTENDED interview, she tells Anne Strainchamps how to unleash our hidden muse.
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