The celebrated cartoonist Chris Ware has a graphic novel called “Building Stories.” It’s like nothing Steve Paulson has ever seen or read before.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eileen Kane revisits her experience as a young, newly married, trainee anthropologist studying the Paiute Indians of Nevada.
Billy Collins has stepped down as America’s Poet Laureate, but he hasn’t stopped trying to make poetry more accessible and more widely read.
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.
In this extended interview, Buddhist chaplain Steve Spiro talks about meditations on mortality, about setting the scene at a deathbed, and shares more stories of conscious dying and living.
Alain de Botton's latest project Is art as therapy. Feeling lonely? Stand in front of the Mona Lisa. Anxious about work? Caspar David Friedrich’s “Rocky Reef on the Seashore” will put everything in perspective. Anne talks with de Botton about his new book, free app, and… upcoming museum shows.
Poet Frances Richey calls her latest collection "The Warrior – A Mother's Story of a Son at War."
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