Tamar Brott

Jonathan Mitchell is a writer from Los Angeles. He wrote a novel about his life experience with Asperger's syndrome, an autism-spectrum disorder. Independent producer Tamar Brott met Mitchell in a writing class a few years ago.

Cute is supposed to appeal universally, but some people just don’t get it. Tamar Brott has some thoughts to share about being cute-averse in a too-cute world.

In the standard Hollywood formula, you pretty much can’t be a genius without also being nuts. Is there really a connection between great creativity and mental illness? Tamar Brott speaks with Kaye Redfield Jamison and other experts and tries to separate the truth ...

In the official Hollywood template, you pretty much can't be a genius without also being nuts. Is there a connection between great creativity and mental illness? Tamar Brott speaks with Kaye Redfield Jamison and other psychiatrists to separate the truth from the myth.

Cute is supposed to appeal universally, but some people just don't get it. Tamar Brott has some thoughts to share about being cute-averse in a too-cute world.

Cute is supposed to appeal universally, but some people just don't get it. Tamar Brott has some thoughts to share about being cute-averse in a too-cute world.

Artist Thomas Condon got permission from officials in Cincinnati to take pictures of corpses at the morgue for a personal project. It never occurred to him to get permission from the surviving families of the dead. In the town still shaken by the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy over a decade ago, ...

Most people outside the art world had never heard of performance artist Andrea Fraser until she installed a video piece called “Untitled” in a New York gallery. In the video, Fraser has sex in a hotel with an art collector she had never met, and who paid her dealer ...

Artist Thomas Condon got permission from officials in Cincinnati to take pictures of corpses at the morgue for a personal project. It never occurred to him to get permission from the surviving families of the dead. In the town still shaken by the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy over a decade ago, ...

In 1970 the visionary Italian architect Paolo Soleri and a team of volunteers broke ground on the city of the future. It was called Arcosanti, and it was intended to change how we Americans live. In Soleri's dream, Arcosantians would sleep and work in 15 story towers on ...

Jonathan Mitchell is autistic, and chronicles his condition through fiction. His first novel is a satire of the world of special ed. Produced by Tamar Brott.

Jonathan Mitchell is an author with autism: he chronicles his condition through fiction, and his first novel is a satire of the world of special education.

Phillippa Duke Schuyler whom Mitchell suggested was bound for an astounding career. Tamar Brott wanted to find out what happened to that little girl. 

The ex-convict Eddie Bunker describes his path to literature. 

Ex-convict Eddie Bunker describes his path to literature.