“I prefer fiction because in fiction I do whatever I want,” says Chilean-American author Isabel Allende, who has published 18 books of fiction, non-fiction and memoirs over the past three […]
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In writing, as in sports, “if you want to compete you have to train.”
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What the “Island Beneath the Sea” author’s desk looks like and why she starts each new novel on January 8th.
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Control. Without a sense of control, we feel less safe. With a sense of control – whether we actually have that control or not – we feel safer. A […]
BY delicious irony, the local Member of Parliament for the impoverished Atacama region of Chile – which includes the doomed mine of San Jose – is none other Isabel Allende. […]
Isabel Allende has seen her American grandchildren grow up to embrace technology and rugged individuality.
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Some of Isabel Allende’s best fiction has been inspired by private correspondence. Yet as Twitter replaces the letter, she fears that we’re losing “the beauty of language.”
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Isabel Allende fell in love with New Orleans just before Katrina, and Haiti just before the earthquake. The quake in her native Chile didn’t shake her as much.
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Like magic realism, Isabel Allende’s life has transcended borders.
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Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
None of us know where this is heading, but we can still learn from the moment.
Legislators push to keep cursive in their schools' curricula, but experts seem split as to whether it's necessary.
Many people were upset when NPR tweeted out the Declaration of Independence.
Studies show that television shows featuring minorities help us ease our attitudes toward people who are "different." We look back at the past thirty years and see how that came to be.
In a letter responding to Anthony M. Amore’s editorial “No ‘Thomas Crown Affair’” in The New York Times about the recent robbery at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, […]
Are we truly looking forward to an "Age of Abundance," as Peter Diamandis suggests? A Big Think panel debates the future of business in the 21st century.
We see them every time we go to a museum, but we never really see them. Like Rodney Dangerfield, frames get no respect. Julius Lowy Frame & Restoring Company, Inc. […]
Top writers—from Salman Rushdie to John Irving to Margaret Atwood to Bret Easton Ellis—talk about inspiration, the discipline of writing, and how to create memorable characters.