Dream Architecture

With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life.

The inside story of the booming video-game industry from the late 1990s to the present, as told by the managing director of Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment (The Division, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed: Revelations).

Dayla: Even if it is just a bodily function, and I’m not saying it is, does true love exist? It’s not always easy, but we’re the ones who make it harder than it has to be. Still, why would I trust the dream? I don’t trust anyone. Except maybe her. Jillien: You can’t make someone love you, but I’ll sure give it a try. I’ve had it before and lost it. Hard. But that’s exactly why I know it’s real this time too. Plus, there’s all kinds of love. I’m just looking for the one they call a dream, though I know for a fact it can be real. Don’t I? Join the suspense, and we’re...