Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark. Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.
As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read. But McNair is concerned that we're only reading a handful of the artists available to us, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making. In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to.
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.
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."
Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.
When you keep hearing bad news about the earth's rising temperatures, it's hard to hold onto any hope. But maybe we're telling the wrong story. Sustainability pioneer Frances Moore Lappe says there are plenty of positive stories that offer hope.
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