Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Clare Crespo thinks you should play with your food, and she tells Anne Strainchamps about her banana hot dog and the family portrait she created from mashed potatoes.
The invention of mechanical clocks created a kind of artificial time which permits greater efficiency, but cuts human beings off from the rest of nature.
Ben Folds is fascinated with the human voice, especially in the genre of A Cappella music.
Erica Rowell has worked in the movie industry and as a journalist. She's the author of "The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen."
We're celebrating National Poetry Month this year by reading some of our favorite poems. Here's Charles with Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart."
How do composers and performers play with our expectations to keep the brain interested in music?
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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