Chuck Klosterman talks about his new book, "I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Imagine what it would feel like if everywhere you went, people assumed you needed help… if complete strangers insisted on giving you a hand, whether you wanted it or not?
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."
Dave Edmunds is a guitarist, singer and producer. He doesn’t have a lot of name recognition outside the industry, but has worked with stars from kd lang to Paul McCartney.
Carel Van Schaik tells Steve Paulson that orangutans, those great red apes, use tools and pass learning down from one generation to the next.
Eileen Kane revisits her experience as a young, newly married, trainee anthropologist studying the Paiute Indians of Nevada.
More people than ever before in US history are living alone. And they're living lives of fullment and social engagement. Eric Klinenberg writes about the trend in "Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone."
As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read. But McNair is concerned that we're only reading a handful of the artists available to us, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making. In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to.
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