Nicholas Christopher collected myths and legends for years to write his novel, "The Bestiary."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Meghan O'Rourke wonders if there's a better way to be bereaved in an essay called "Good Grief" which recently appeared in the New Yorker.
Kent Walker is the son of Sante Kimes, who is currently incarcerated for the murder of a New York woman. Walker is the author of a memoir called “Son of A Grifter.”
The question isn't "seen any good movies lately?" but instead "experienced any good paratexts lately?"
Lisa Tucker tells Anne Strainchamps that she thinks the songs that get stuck in our brains reveal a lot about us.
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer started on his path to fame in the 1950s with a cartoon strip for "The Village Voice" that eventually won him a Pulitzer Prize.
Peter Cordani is CEO of Dyn-O-Mat. He invents things. Like Dyn-O-Storm - a polymer gel that can be sprayed on clouds to make them go away.
Master gardener Michael Pollan talks about his youthful experiment with growing marijuana and explains how the war on drugs spurred growers into developing a stronger, hardier plant.
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