Jennifer Cohen flew off to Russia to be a journalist and live with the man of her dreams. Things didn’t quite work out the way she planned
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
For millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called “The Honey Thief.”
The East Village Opera Company gives the traditional operatic repertory an extreme musical make-over, re-imagining arias as popular songs.
We’re introduced to the concept of culture jamming, and Kalle Lasn tells Steve Paulson what led him to found his magazine “Adbusters.”
Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.
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.
Nicholas Christopher collected myths and legends for years to write his novel, "The Bestiary."
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