Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Pierre Ferrari is one of the founders of TeamX, a clothing company with a social conscience. He tells Jim Fleming that the company limits executive salaries to eight times the salary of the lowest paid worker.
Producer Rehman Tungekar talks with Anne Strainchamps about growing up in a multi-ethnic family.
Musician Joe Jackson talks with Jim Fleming about his concept album “Heaven and Hell” which is based on the Seven Deadly Sins.
Jonathan Lethem's new novel is "Chronic City." The book has been described as a cross between the famous borough-centric New Yorker cartoon and the darkest episode of "Seinfeld."
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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Jedediah Purdy is the author of “For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today” and “Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World.”
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