# Maira Kalman

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Why Maira Kalman Loves to Work on Lots of Projects at Once

This week, host Rumaan Alam talks with the multitalented artist Maira Kalman. Kalman is an illustrator, writer, artist, and designer known for her playful and witty illustrations in children's books like Fireboat and Why We Broke Up as well as her work for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Th‮…

What Women Carry

After a few quiet months, we're back! Well this episode is just me but Deborah will be back soon. We are easing into things with a shorter episode that asks the question, What do women carry? Inspired by a passage from a book by Maira Kalman titled Women Holding Things. We reflect on the invisible‮…

Come Life, Shaker Life: From the Cradle to the Cradle

The Shakers. An offshoot sect of The Quakers, born in England in 1747. In worship they were known to break into states of ecstatic trembling. Trembling Quakers. Shaking Quakers. The Shakers. They came to America in 1774 with a utopian vision, egalitarian ideals, a belief in the equality of the sex‮…

Make Order Out of Chaos: Maira Kalman on Living with Purpose and Meaning, Surrounding Yourself with Beauty, and Surviving with a Sense of Humor

American artist, illustrator, writer, and designer Maira Kalman, author of Women Holding Things, Sara Berman's Closet, and many other illustrated books, talks about her Belarus-born Jewish mother, Sara. After leaving her husband in Tel Aviv, Sara began a new life in New York — and, at 60, finally‮…

Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol 8-9)

Concluding our series on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. Next we're weighing Ariosto or Rabelais, and in the meantime, Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Maira Kalman on "Time wastes too fast" - https://archive.nytimes.com/kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/ Thanks fo‮…

Sophie Blackall, Syndicated Columnist

Brace for magic--she's just as wonderful as you'd hoped she'd be--today on Unseriously it's 2-time Caldecott medalist, the author and illustrator Sophie Blackall. Sophie joins Holly to regale her with tales of that time she accidentally drew the Pentagon, how she dumped a guy over a mango, and yea‮…

Florence Ann Romano: Build Your Village

They say “It takes a village.” But how do you build it? For all our technology, tools, and ways to stay “connected,” many of us are feeling more isolated than ever. And that lack of connection is showing up everywhere. Florence Ann Romano believes the answer isn’t doing more; it’s rebuilding what‮…

355. Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)?

Family environments and “diversifying experiences” (including the early death of a parent); intrinsic versus extrinsic motivations; schools that value assessments, but don't assess the things we value. All these elements factor into the long, mysterious march towards a creative life. To learn more‮…

354. How to Be Creative

There are thousands of books on the subject, but what do we actually know about creativity? In this new series, we talk to the researchers who study it as well as artists, inventors, and pathbreakers who live it every day: Ai Weiwei, James Dyson, Elvis Costello, Jennifer Egan, Rosanne Cash, Wynton‮…