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Is the pursuit of happiness a Sisyphean task or a question of perspective? Self-confessed over- achiever Holly Hughes investigates, and wonders if ambition can blight our eternal quest.
There is a moment in Paul Auster’s
4 3 2 1 – a novel that explores the plurality of life and the many forking paths of “what ifs” our existence could take – when the inquisitive young protagonist ponders why his father is different from other dads. His father doesn’t play with him the way other fathers do, his father rebuffs weekend relaxing for working overtime, his father is consistently preoccupied by a business whose profits he stopped needing a long time ago, plagued by an invisible aspiration that precludes happiness as it drives him to achieving some intangible goal. In short, his father is suffering from an acute case of ambition. The kind that borders on obsessive; the kind that is all-consuming, all-encompassing, blinding.
Jacki Lyden
Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden s voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.
In the last five years, Lyden has reported from diverse locations including Paris, New York, the backstreets of Baghdad, the byways around rural Kentucky and spent time among former prostitutes in Nashville.
Most recently, Lyden focused her reporting on the underground, literally. In partnership with
National Geographic, she and photographer Stephen Alvarez explored the catacombs and underground of the City of Light. The report of the expedition aired on
Jacki Lyden
Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden s voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.
In the last five years, Lyden has reported from diverse locations including Paris, New York, the backstreets of Baghdad, the byways around rural Kentucky and spent time among former prostitutes in Nashville.
Most recently, Lyden focused her reporting on the underground, literally. In partnership with
National Geographic, she and photographer Stephen Alvarez explored the catacombs and underground of the City of Light. The report of the expedition aired on
Jacki Lyden
Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden s voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.
In the last five years, Lyden has reported from diverse locations including Paris, New York, the backstreets of Baghdad, the byways around rural Kentucky and spent time among former prostitutes in Nashville.
Most recently, Lyden focused her reporting on the underground, literally. In partnership with
National Geographic, she and photographer Stephen Alvarez explored the catacombs and underground of the City of Light. The report of the expedition aired on
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