Bigfoot Love Triangle (Spring Mix)
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Clocks have March-ed ahead, and we've passed the Vernal equinox, so ...
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InTheNo 7: Journalist Alfred Lubrano
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The geographic span between Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and New York's ...
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InTheNo 6: Conductor Donald Nally
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Donald Nally left his job as a music professor to found an ...
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InTheNo 5: Illustrator Matt Phelan
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After learning that the optioned screenplay he had quit his job to write would never be made into a movie, Matt Phelan took the ...
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InTheNo 4B: Poet Teresa Leo, Part II
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InTheNo 4A: Poet Teresa Leo, Part I
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Award-winning poet Teresa Leo is no stranger to rejection, a common outcome when submitting for publication and grants. She is also familiar with success -- her poetry has appeared in over a dozen publications and received several notable awards. In this first of two parts, we discuss how Leo composes poems, how fellow writers and artists help refine and inform her work, and what characterizes poetic writing. ...
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Skullcrusher Pirate Hotdish
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The holiday season continues apace. To mark , the onset of , the first day of Xmas gift returns, a belated , ...
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InTheNo 3: Musician Jonathan Coulton
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Just how far do you have to go when you quit your day job and pursue ...
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InTheNo 2: Psychologist Barry Schwartz
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What if nobody ever turned you down, and every possible option was available to you? Psychology professor Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, explains how being asked to choose from an overabundance of options can actually lead to feelings of dissatisfaction and helplessness, rather than greater contentment. ...
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InTheNo 1: Author Tom Zoellner
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A broken engagement spurred journalist and author Tom Zoellner to ...
info_outlineThe geographic span between Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and New York's Columbia University is relatively modest, but for award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano, the psychic distance he needed to travel as the first member of his family to attend college was far greater. Lubrano discusses the unique conflicts and challenges faced by "Straddlers" like himself -- people brought up in the working class, transformed through their educations, now leading middle-class lives.
We touch on numerous topics in this episode, including:
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams (Wiley, 2003)
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
Columbia University
GQ Magazine
New York Daily News
Caroline Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory
Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, The Hidden Injuries of Class
Michael Hout, UC Berkeley
Pierre Bourdieu
Dana Gioia, The National Endowment for the Arts
Stanford University
Harvard University
Phillips Exeter Academy
Fulbright scholarship
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
W.E.B. DuBois
Amazon.com
Slate.com and Dear Prudence
Tom Wolfe
Come listen to a very different kind of story about choosing to step away from bricks and mortar.