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On Borges, Gore Vidal, Robert Frost & The Writing Life with Author & Filmmaker JAY PARINI
Season 15 Episode 1149
“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
THE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMI
Season 15 Episode 1143
What happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Examining Monuments, Memory & The History of White Supremacy IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR. - Highlights
Season 15 Episode 1142
“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going thr…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
An Actor Prepares - SHARON LAWRENCE on Crafting Complex Characters - Highlights
Season 15 Episode 1139
“I would encourage you, as I do if you're an actor, to know your own equipment, know your own psychology, and use the great teachers that are synthesized in my favorite teacher's book, Moss, who I st…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Exploring Family Dynamics & Fierce Female Friendships with Novelist MEGAN ABBOTT
Season 14 Episode 1137
“I think that it all goes back to childhood. I’ve always really been writing about family. I suppose we always are. I do think that it is the original wound, and it's where we are kind of wired and b…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
All the Water in the World with Writer & Musician EIREN CAFFALL
Season 14 Episode 1134
“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnec…
Published on 7 months ago
Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism
Season 14 Episode 1128
How do our personal relationships affect political movements and activism? What can we learn from Native American tradition to restore ecological balance? How can transforming capitalism help address…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
PAUL LYNCH discusses Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea & his Creative Process - Highlights
Season 14 Episode 1123
"The country spoke Irish largely before it spoke English. Grammatically, the structure of Irish is different from English. As Ireland adopted the English language, this sort of hybridization started …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH
Season 14 Episode 1122
“We narrate the story of our lives to ourselves. We narrate it in linear fashion. And I know many writers have played with time in all sorts of amazing ways, but we're storytellers. This is what we …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
ADAM MOSS - Fmr. Editor of New York Magazine, Author, Artist on Creativity as a Process
Season 14 Episode 1116
“When I was working at the Times and the Times Magazine, on one Tuesday morning, the towers fell. September 11, 2001. The magazine had a 10-day lead time, so it was a weekly that was essentially 10 d…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago