Culture & Religion — November 5, 2009

Searching for the Self, in NYC and Abroad

What is the most personal work you’ve ever created? That was among the many questions novelist Paul Auster, known for exploring the paradoxes of identity in the New York Trilogy, “Moon Palace,” and his new “Invisible,” answered for Big Think this week.

An author closely associated with Brooklyn, Auster traced the arc of his career and the city itself over the many years he’s lived there, adding a few predictions about New York’s future. He also reminisced about his years abroad in France in the early 1970s and named the aspects of literature that are easiest to lose in translation.

Auster’s interview will be posted next Friday.

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We asked a government advisor about 2 key problems (and solutions) in AI regulation

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A very short history of the F-word

Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.

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Work culture in the U.S. is broken. It’s on employers to fix it.

Quiet quitting, The Great Resignation, burnout: there are a ton of buzzwords to describe how modern work culture is broken. Now that we know what the problems are, how do we fix them? Tiffani Bova shares how employers can heal their relationship with their employees.

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