Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann's Dangerous Idea? To be better adjusted, change the way you think about thinking.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mary Karr tells Steve Paulson that this volume begins at the time of her sexual awakening and that most female writers skip over those awkward adolescent years.
A ghost story from listener Jonathan Blyth, called "You Are What You Eat."
Michael Reilly recorded an extraordinary CD called "Como Now: The Voices of Panola County, Mississippi."
Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”
In his last few years, Sacks revealed more details about his own life. One of the most remarkable revelations was his extensive use of LSD and other hallucinogens in the ‘60s. He tells Steve Paulson that psychedelics nearly killed him, but they also opened his mind to new ways of seeing the world.
Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."
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