Poet Anja Sieger, who often writes under the pen name Notanja, is the current Narrator-in-Residence at the storied Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. Her writing implement of choice? A vintage typewriter.Hear the interview as well as the bonus reading of a poem that she wrote on-site for producer Seth Jovaag's daughter, Lydia.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann's Dangerous Idea? To be better adjusted, change the way you think about thinking.
Legendary Knopf editor Judith Jones reflects on Julia Child and her influence on cooking in the U.S. She writes about their friendship In her own memoir, "The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.”
Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.
Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”
Owen Flanagan is a philosopher of mind who spends his professional life tackling the so-called "hard problem" of consciousness.
Jeff Wiltse tells Anne Strainchamps how municipal pools have reflected the social tensions of American society, especially the racial tensions.
No book has won more raves this year than Katherine Boo’s nonfiction portrait of a Mumbai slum, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers".
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