Just Passing Through

If you really want to understand a place, writer Colin Dickey has some advice: “Ignore the boastful monuments and landmarks, and go straight to the haunted houses. Look for the darkened graveyards, the derelict hotels, the emptied and decaying old hospitals.”

Dickey has spent a lot of time travelling the country searching for places that go bump in the night. The result is a new book called Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places.

Check out his conversation with Audie Cornish here.

Author and artist Faith Ringgold turns 86 on Saturday! To celebrate, we stopped by for story time at her New Jersey studio, where she read us her 1991 children’s book, Tar Beach.

Ermias Ekube

what I actually look like reading:

Trees Mirrored in a Pond (1907)