Sheri Booker was terrified when she first started working at the Wylie Funeral Home at the age of 15. She was still grieving the death of a beloved aunt, and took the job in the hope of finding a sense of closure. After preparing her first client — a suicide victim with a gunshot wound to the head — something changed. As morbid as it may sound, she was hooked.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If the mall-as-temple turns you off, you may be ready for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
Writer and activist Astra Taylor calls for a Jubilee to buy and abolish debt.
Carlene Carter belongs to the third generation of Country music's ruling dynasty, the Carter Family. "Stronger" is her new album.
Jennifer Jacquet recommends "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Christian Lander sees himself as an expert on "Stuff White People Like".
We're celebrating National Poetry Month this year by reading some of our favorite poems. Here's Charles with Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart."
Anthony Loyd tells Steve Paulson why he decided to move to Sarajevo and call himself a photojournalist; what living there during the war was like; and how he ended up with a heroin habit.
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