Junot Diaz bookmarks "Dark Reflections" by Samuel R. Delany.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Stephanie Elkins had never heard of ASMR when we started looking for people who experience the tingles and euphoria that people are calling autonomous sensory meridian response.
She wondered just what ASMR might be, and what triggers would give her the tingles.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Drew Kampion tells Steve Paulson about some of the biggest happenings in modern surf culture. Kampion is the author of the book “Stoked: A History of Surf Culture.”
Dean Hamer says that human beings are hard-wired for belief and are genetically pre-disposed to reach beyond their own limitations.
Esperanza Spalding is one of the brightest young stars in jazz - except she resists being labeled a "jazz musician." In fact, her new album "Emily's D+ Evolution" sounds more like rock than jazz. When she sat down in our studio with Steve Paulson, she talked about her childhood roots in classical music before her momentous discovery of jazz improvisation.
Richard Yates’ debut novel was “Revolutionary Road,” which Kurt Vonnegut hailed as “The Great Gatsby” of its time...
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor says we're now living in "a secular age," but we're still trying to figure out what a post-religious world looks like, and how we can find meaning in a culture without any over-arching purpose.
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