Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
In this UNCUT interview, Jonah Lehrer talks about his new book, “Imagine: How Creativity Works.” Turns out, we can all learn to be more creative.
Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, thinks cupid’s arrow may just be an algorithm.
Goshen college theologian Jo Ann Brant talks about interpreting the story of Lot’s wife, who gets turned into a pillar of salt.
Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
Writer and writing coach Natalie Goldberg tells Anne Strainchamps how two of the most important men in her life - her father and her Zen master – failed her.
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