Economist Henry Kaufman explains how the financial crisis will reshape our economic behavior for years to come. For our Underappreciated summer reading series, we’ll learn about Robert Montgomery Bird’s novel Sheppard Lee. Then, a look at how indie films can survive the recession. Plus, award-winning science journalist Po Bronson explains why he thinks today’s strategies for raising children are backfiring.
The Road to Financial Reformation
Underappreciated: Sheppard Lee
In our latest Underappreciated segment, UCLA English professor Christopher Looby discusses Robert Montgomery Bird’s novel, Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself about an unrepentant deadbeat discovers the ability to project his souls into dying men’s bodies, a form of antebellum identity theft.
Indie Films and the Recession
Nurtureshock
Events: Po Bronson will be speaking and signing books
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