The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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As editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman reads thousands of new poems a year. Who better to check in with on the state of English language poetry?
Jill Price can remember every day of her life since the age of 14. She's one of only half a dozen people diagnosed with "hyperthymesia" - a fancy word for nearly total recall.
Mark Pendergrast tells Jim Fleming that mirrors were important in many ancient human cultures and recounts his experiences in a mirror maze.
Writer Ayelet Waldman was struggling...with her marriage, her kids, her life.Then she took daily microdoses of LSD for a month and found a kind of beauty and calm she hadn’t known for years.
Matthew Carter designed Verdana, the internet font; Helvetica, the most ubiquitous font family in the world; and Bell Centennial, the phone book font.
The best pies use ugly, tasty, local apples and have a good crust according to John T. Edge.
Novelist John Colapinto reads from and tells Jim Fleming about his book “About the Author,” in which a writer steals a manuscript from his room-mate and claims it as his own.
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