The New Alone

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Related Books:


Going Solo
(Eric Klinenberg)

Single
(Michael Cobb)

Slow Love
(Dominique Browning)

"Good Without God"
(Greg Epstein)

Related Albums:


Boy on Bridge
(Alan Doyle)

Incidental Music:

Eleanor Rigby
Exploration
(Power of Suggestion, Karminsky Experience Inc)
Mother
(Out of My Hands, Christopher O'Riley)
Break it Slow
(Boy On Bridge, Alan Doyle)
Where the Nightingales Sing
(Boy On Bridge, Alan Doyle)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, No 1 Aria
Cantata Ostinato: 8
Interviewer(s): 
Jim Fleming
Steve Paulson
Anne Strainchamps
Guest(s): 
Dominique Browning
Eric Klinenberg
Michael Cobb
Alan Doyle
Greg Epstein
Producer(s): 
Veronica Rueckert
09.23.2012

If there's one sweeping societal change that we've failed to put our finger on, it may be this: more people than ever before in America are living alone.  And loving it.  And, far from being dysfunctional neurotics - people who live alone are happy, socially involved and solvent. In this hour, the new alone. Also, arguments in favor of the uncoupled. And how humanists are re-imagining fellowship - without God.

Related Link(s): 
Dominique Browning's website
Humanist Community Project

  1. Eric Klinenberg on the Rise in Living Alone

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    More people than ever before in US history are living alone. And they're living lives of fullment and social engagement.  Eric Klinenberg writes about the trend in "Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone."

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  2. Michael Cobb - Arguments for the Uncoupled

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    Why are we so obsessed with finding someone who completes us?  What if we're already complete?  That's what Michael Cobb wonders.  In his book "Single" he argues that it's time to take the pressure off couples and look at other ways of living.

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  3. Alan Doyle on "Boy on Bridge"

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    Alan Doyle is the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea.  He stopped by our studios to talk about the ins and outs of his first solo album, "Boy on Bridge."

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  4. Dominique Browning on Building a Slow Life

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    When life gives you lemons, sometimes you make lemonade.  And sometimes you write, and bake and play piano at three 3 am.  That's what Dominique Browning did after she and her staff were let go when the magazine, "House and Garden" folded.  She writes about getting to know herself in the book "Slow Love."

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  5. Greg Epstein on Building Community Without God

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    When people let go of religion, they often let go of the fellowship and community that go along with the faith.  But Greg Epstein is trying to change that.  As Harvard University's Humanist Chaplain, he's forging new models of community-building without God.

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