In this UNCUT interview, Katherine Boo talks about her much-lauded book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Edward Hirsch tells Anne Strainchamps that the best artists have “duende” - a kind of creative imp that puts them in touch with human emotional experience.
TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon attempts to interview Chris Murphy and Patrick Pentland of the Halifax Indie band Sloan.
Hanan Al-Shaykh bookmarks "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih.
Bill Vossler is the author of “Burma-Shave: The Rhymes, the Signs, The Times.” He talks about where the classic rhyming signs came from, and reads several examples.
Dana Jennings grew up in New Hampshire during the golden age of country music from the 1950s through the 1970s. His family listened to country and their values were shaped by it.
David Syring is descended from the German immigrants who settled the Texas Hill Country. He tells Jim Fleming about his problematical grandfather, and why he still feels rooted to his family's home place.
If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.
Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.
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