Jan 5th, 2009 · A Wovel is an on-line novel written serially, with readers deciding the turns of the plot. Publisher Underland Press is hoping people who already do most of their reading surfing the web will return each week to read the next installment.
Apr 19th, 2008 · Saturday, independently owned record stores across the country toast loyal patrons with giveaways and in-store performances. Singer-songwriter James McMurtry remembers browsing, and awkwardly self-promoting, in music shops.
Feb 29th, 2008 · Here's the perfect job: spending someone else's money. And if you're an art lover, and get to spend their money on works of art, well, that just might be bliss. Tag along on a shopping trip with an art adviser and her swimsuit-model client.
Sep 7th, 2007 · While browsing a flea market near her home in Florida, Margaret Pierson wasn't looking for a treasured family portrait but she found one: an old black-and-white photo of her father sold at their estate sale in Alabama after he died 35 years ago.
Jul 23rd, 2007 · Companies are developing new technologies to monitor and predict Web browsing behavior. Yahoo announced tools for ads aimed at Web searches. Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, spoke with Steve Inskeep.
Aug 13th, 2006 · In an alley off an alley off an alley in Kabul, one market fills what seems to be a deep need for many Afghans. It sells birds of numberless varieties, from canaries and other avian vocalists to birds of prey.
Apr 9th, 2006 · For the latest edition in a continuing series about the story behind songs, Stephanie Davis of Reed Point, Mont., sings about the dangers of mid-winter browsing of seed catalogs.
Feb 22nd, 2005 · If you're browsing through magazines on your local newstand this week, you may notice that Savoy magazine is back. Once dubbed "the black Vanity Fair," the new Savoy is a slightly heftier and glossier magazine than the one that disappeared two years ago. Monique Carridine on the rebirth of Savoy.