Writers’ house museums allow visitors to toggle between past and present in wonderful, confusing, dissonant ways. That’s one topic I take up in my book, A Skeptic’s Guide To Writers’ Houses. In this photo essay, I juxtapose text and image to capture the experience of past smashing into present I had while visiting several writers’ houses-turned-museums.
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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Companies Value Internships, So Why Don't They Hire Interns?
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
It took him three years, but Niko Alm is finally allowed to celebrate his non-religion, "pastafarianism," in his driver's license.
How bad moods make us careful. Like so many writing teachers, I've been told I sometimes drive my students to depression or binge-drinking....
Produce travels 1,500 miles on average from farm to table. Minimize this by buying food grown locally. To get you started, here is a...
North Korea's four traffic lights and other factoids about one of the world's most secretive countries.
Food writing relies on sensory overload, music writing on linguistic agility, but both, Drew Tewskbury explains, communicate the invisible.
GOOD Guide to North Korea, There Ain't No "D" in the DMZ (sec. 7 of 10)
A company in Australia is offering families the chance to live rent-free in an energy- and water efficient smart house as part of an experiment to...
Check out that mullet in the food court. This photo project wants to show you what malls across the country looked like in the 1980s.
Walkable streets are what make neighborhoods work—this much we know. Of course, not all of us are so lucky as to have them where we live. If a...
This pamphlet is worth looking at—even if you're not selling hot dogs, used books, or knock-off designer handbags.
After five years of teaching English, I traded in my classroom keys for bylines. And I've never been happier.
The Department of Education is allocating more money to the Promise Neighborhoods program. Is it enough to make a real difference?
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A Minnesota teacher is helping her students set up blogs and gain a readership. The result? The kids "see themselves as writers—real writers."
Check out the Reuters year in pictures (barring some major news event in the next two weeks). It's a nice way to zoom through the year in a few...
Ben Critton asks why popular films insist that a preference for modern architecture signifies something cold dubious about your character.
The media loves a good story about how China has shed its old industrial ways and is leading the charge into a clean economy. We've even done it,...
Just because the economy is suffering doesn't mean you should hold onto a job you hate.
Writer Colleen Wainwright went bald for a program that teaches literacy to high school girls.
See how social entrepreneurs are solving messy human problems in Kenya.
A visual tour of living and rebuilding in Haiti.
