TED.com translations are made possible by volunteer At TED2013, Amanda Palmer gave a talk called "The art of asking" about her experience funding an album on Kickstarter; it quickly went viral on TED.com. Playlists. Novelist, writer, culture critic and playwright Monica Byrne thinks that there's an infinite number of stories to tell, and she intends to tell as many as she can. Overshadowed by Adams’ more famous work -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series -- the Dirk Gently novels are a delightful read. The "app generation" struggles with creative writing — as a new study shows, they’re turning into realists. Get TED Talks picked just for you. Jherek Bischoff is a Los Angeles-based composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumental performer. Amanda Palmer’s new book grew out of a simple fact: that she couldn’t cram every relevant story into her 14-minute TED Talk. The image you see above is Amanda Palmer just before stepping onto the TED2013 stage to give her talk, "The art of asking." Here are their eclectic picks, ready for sticking in your carry-on or for gifting.

Writing and reading goofy stories of lost kingdoms and Mars colonies helps the imagination grow strong. Lit by candl... Books can teach, giving you a richer understanding of time periods, people and ideas you’ve never been exposed to. But once the ad for the movie was c... Since we know TED speakers love to read, we asked them: What book could you not stop reading? Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (TED Talk: Parrots, the universe and everything) At TED2013, Amanda Palmer gave a talk called “The art of asking” about her experience funding an album on Kickstarter; it quickly went viral on TED.com. But his latest work might sound familiar: it’s an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm breadcrumb dropper, Hansel & Gretel. But his latest work might sound familiar: it’s an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm breadcrumb dropper, Hansel & Gretel. Neil Gaiman writes stunningly original stories that can make the skin crawl and the teeth chatter. between an an an inhalation and exhalation, exhalation, but. By Liz Jacobs and Ben Lillie The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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If you walked up the twisting mahogany staircase of the Vancouver Club on Tuesday, past an ominous portrait of a man in a kilt and an empty ballroom with its curtains dancing in the wind, you'd happen upon a dimly lit room filled with TED2014 attendees. translators. They’re chock full of his trademark humorous writing and ... And at TED2014: The Next Chapter we're doing plenty of both. “I'd always thought that I was well-traveled,” says writer Ann Morgan (TED Talk: My year reading a book from every country in the world), but "actually, when I looked at my bookshelves, they told a very different story about me.” Her shelves were cr... As our lineup of TED2014 speakers finish writing their talks and start the long process of rehearsing, it felt like the right moment to ask ... At TED2013, Amanda Palmer gave a talk called "The art of asking" about her experience funding an album on Kickstarter; it quickly went viral on TED.com. It's a new, strange, experimental day for TED. TED Series. Why should this be such a pipe dream? By daylight, Neil Gaiman is captivated by someone else’s story at TED2014. Learn more about the 100+ collections of TED Talks, for curious minds .

Speaking at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, writer Neil Gaiman tells the grad... Here’s a mini summer reading list that might inspire some wild thinking. The second and third days of TED2014 have been tremendous—a mind-bending exercise in crackling new ideas and rethinking old ones.

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