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.
We found a modern-day huckster. His name is Rev. Ivan Stang and he’s the co-founder of a cult called The Church of the SubGenius.
Michael Pollan tells Judith Strasser where the American front lawn came from, and what it has come to symbolize.
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.
Can you learn to be more creative? You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable."
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Peter French tells Anne Strainchamps the ancient Greeks thought revenge was a good thing, and analyzes the vengeance scenario of Clint Eastwood’s film “Unforgiven.”
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