Damali Ayo runs the website rent-a-negro.com. She's written a book called "How To Rent A Negro."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Don't look for authenticity on your plate! That's the message of Barry Glassner's book, "The Gospel of Food."
Psychologist Steven Pinker's Dangerous Idea? We may be living in the most peaceful time of our species’ existence.
Etgar Keret tells Steve Paulson how his writing career began after a traumatic event.
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.
For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.
David Plotz is the editor of Slate Magazine (slate.com) and the author of "Good Book."
Dave Soldier is a neurologist with an unusual hobby. He teaches elephants to play musical instruments.
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