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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With “Hallucinations,” Oliver Sacks has written one of his most personal books. In this NEW and EXTENDED interview, Sacks talks about his personal history with hallucinogens back in the 60s, as well as ecstatic experiences induced by temporal lobe epilepsy, and also how a mysterious voice in his head once saved Sacks’ life.
He traveled the Amazon in search of drug-induced visionary experiences. That wild adventure led to a lifelong study of hallucinogens.
Psychologist Steven Pinker's Dangerous Idea? We may be living in the most peaceful time of our species’ existence.
In this UNCUT interview, Katherine Boo talks about her much-lauded book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”.
Photographer Sarah Sudhoff has been intrigued by mortality for almost as long as she can remember. She's made art out of out of disease, hospitals, funeral homes. In her series, At The Hour of Our Death, she's taking an close look at death.
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.
Hanan Al-Shaykh bookmarks "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih.
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