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Bret Dunlap Discovered Running and It Changed His Life

Photo: Bret Dunlap makes his way to work in Rhinelander. See more photos + + + You know what people think. They see jeans too short and winter coat too shiny, too grimy, and think, homeless. They…
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8948 words)

James Turrell shapes perceptions

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands…
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2636 words)

Jeff Koons Is the Most Successful American Artist Since Warhol. So What's the Art World Got Against Him?

Koons holding a gazing ball aloft in his studio alongside several sculptures destined for his show at David Zwirner's. Honk Honk Honk! Honk! Jeff Koons’s 5-year-old son, Eric, is blowing a…
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4705 words)

The Evolution of a First Novel

This week I turned in the final draft of my book to my publisher. If you know me, or have happened to run into me at CVS on a Tuesday evening with a distant and vaguely stern look on my face, you…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2568 words)

How I Met My Dead Parents

In 1994, when I was 16 and he was 54, my father George was killed in a car accident in Ukraine. He'd begun working in Ukraine, where he was born, after Communism fell, something that he didn't think…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6753 words)

When Our Kids Own America

Photo by Rafael Castillo Oakland, Calif., is two time zones away from Brooklyn Park and a whole continent away from Harlem. It could either be a utopian vision of some multiculti urban future or its…
AUTHOR:Gene Demby
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2080 words)

Lying Around With Brandon McCarthy

Image by Jonathan Zizzo /Buzzfeed Brandon McCarthy has some ideas for how a profile of himself should read. He knows the formula cold: a quirky intro that sets the tone and lays out the big idea;…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4392 words)

US Slave

From Aljazeerah News, "Forgotten Story of Indian Slavery," by Alan Gallay, Arab News  --  LOS ANGELES, 3 August 2003 — When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1099 words)

The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much

Gérard de Villiers, the author of the best-selling S.A.S. espionage series. Last June, a pulp-fiction thriller was published in Paris under the title “Le Chemin de Damas.” Its lurid green-and-black…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4047 words)
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