Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon’s new memoir, “Girl in a Band,” is on our minds this week. The book chronicles the influential band’s career and the end of the marriage between Gordon and fellow co-founder Thurston Moore after 27 years.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cissy Chandler was 18 years older than her husband, which he may or may not have ever known.
Joan Richards teaches the history of mathematics at Brown University. Her book chronicles how her faith in mathematical laws was shaken when her son suffered a seizure.
Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
Actor/writer/comedian John McGivern grew up gay in a Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Here he shares some of his holiday memories.
Larry Watson tells a story about beauty, art, obsession and betrayal in his novel “Orchard.”
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of several novels and two collections of widely anthologized short stories...
If evolution is a game called survival of the fittest, how do you explain altruism? The “altruism equation” is a mathematical rule discovered by George Price...
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