The way we think about happiness today is a thin, watery version of a deep and complex subject.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chang's new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest.
Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities. He says part of the answer might be tree houses and… meat houses. Yes, you heard that right, MEAT houses.
Vladimir Nabokov is not only a great literary figure. He was a world-class lepidopterist who named ten new species. Pyle tells Judith Strasser about Nabokov’s work with butterflies.
Jonatha Brooke is a singer and songwriter who was invited by Woody Guthrie's daughter to visit her famous father's archives and use some of his unpublished material. The result is an album called "The Works."
Jason Zinoman talks to Jim Fleming about his book, "Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror."
Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon’s new memoir, “Girl in a Band,” is on our minds this week. The book chronicles the influential band’s career and the end of the marriage between Gordon and fellow co-founder Thurston Moore after 27 years.
Lera Auerbach's obsession with time has impacted her life in music. We hear examples of her literary and musical achievements.
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