Robin Chase is the co-founder of ZipCar. Her Dangerous Idea? A universal basic income.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Schmader thinks "Showgirls" is the most brilliant bad movie ever made. He did a commentary for the new DVD edition and tells Steve Paulson why it's so hilarious.
Ellen Ruppel Shell talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of our obsession with low prices.
Chandler Burr's new book explains Luca Turin’s theory of how we smell and recounts his amazing ability to recognize the odor of particular molecules.
Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
What does it mean to be free? And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."
In her new memoir, "Ongoingness," Sarah Manguso talks about how keeping a diary—so often considered a virture—for her became a vice. But her obsessive diary keeping changed with the birth of her first child.
Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
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