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It's to the best of our knowledge. Anne Strange Champs is out today.

I'm Sarah Nix.

In this hour, urban cultures.

It's the great age of urbanization.

In India and China, hundreds of millions of people are moving into cities.

Even here in the U.S., more Americans are living urban than ever before.

But there's more to city living than smaller homes, fewer parking spots, and more restaurants.

Throughout human history, cities have been the cradle for cultural innovation, new philosophies,

new art, new ways of living.

And sometimes those new ideas have gone global, carrying with them the essence of their hometown.

My life is deeply intermingled, embedded in the city.

So when I decided to write autobiographical essays, then I realize that it will be deeply about the city.

That's Orhan Pamuk.

Shortly before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature,

he published a collection of early memoirs and named it after his hometown, Istanbul.

Steve Paulson asked him how that city shaped his work.

Till the age of 22, I thought that I would be a painter.

I used to paint a lot of cityscapes under the influence of French impressionists.

And I was also thinking, what's this all about? And then the feeling that Baudelaire and other French writers developed the idea that the value of a landscape painting is associated with the feeling it evokes. And I ask myself, wow, maybe it's a good time to ask myself, what do I associate the Istanbul of my childhood?

Then, of course, it was melancholy or Turkish melancholy, which

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