Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.
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.
Mark Frauenfelder is co-creator of the weblog BoingBoing.net and the author of "Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World."
She is "the Queen of Norwegian Crime" with a series of internationally best-selling stories of psychological suspense.
Producer Rehman Tungekar talks with Anne Strainchamps about growing up in a multi-ethnic family.
Ed Boyden, a researcher at MIT, is at the forefront of a new science that aims to map and even heal the brain with light. It’s called optogenetics, and the journal Science has called it one of the great insights of the 21st century. It’s in its early days, but the goal is to one day be able to take a disease like depression, PTSD, or epilepsy and, using bursts of light, just turn it off -- the same way you’d fix a software glitch in a computer.
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.
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