Hillary Carlip lists her occupation as “multi-mediaist.” Throughout her experiences –as an author, screenwriter, visual artist, Web designer, entrepreneur, creative director, performance artist, rock star, and fire-eater– personal media has emerged as a theme, probably even before there was a name for it.
Her first book, Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out, included essays, poems [...]

[This review includes two excerpts from Eat, Pray, Love, courtesy of Ms. Gilbert. See the author on tour across America over the next few months.]
I liked Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert so much that I recently had no choice but to give away my advance copy before I had actually finished it.
I [...]

Read an interview with Paul Rieckhoff here.
After spending 10 months in Iraq leading a platoon with the Third Infantry Division, IAVA founder Paul Rieckhoff returned home to an America torn between The Sopranos and the ground situation in Baghdad, with the former usually garnering more attention. As Rieckhoff writes in his new book Chasing [...]

Jason Bitner is the co-creator of Found, the on and offline show-and-tell project of lost and tossed items. He also edits Dirty Found, the X-rated version of the project.
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The highway from my home in Chicago to LaPorte, Indiana, hugs the southeastern edge [...]