Ping Fu talks about her remarkable journey escaping the Chinese Cultural Revolution to becoming an entrepreneurial leader in the United States. National Book Award Winner Deidre Bair discusses her new biography of iconic New Yorker artist Saul Steinberg. We’ll get a preview of The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival. Plus, Glenn Croston explains how we misinterpret risk.
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ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio.
Acclaimed writer George Saunders just published his latest collection of short stories, called Tenth of December. He joins us to share some of his favorite music, and explains how his new book is like a concept album.
Plus, copyright attorney Jonathan Reichman – who we affectionately refer to as “The Copy Cat” – joins us to explain the legal strategy behind a new Bob Dylan release called (no joke) The Copyright Extension Collection, Vol. 1.
And, indie pop band Ra Ra Riot plays us a preview of their synth-heavy new record, Beta Love.
Q is an energetic daily arts and culture program from the CBC hosted by Tom Power.
Accordionist and composer Guy Klucevsek stops by for a visit, on the occasion of the reissue of “Polka From the Fringe,” 29 previously out-of-print tracks for accordion by Klucevsek and 27 other composers. With titles like Lois V Vierk’s “Attack Cat Polka,” or Elliott Sharp’s jolt of punk in “Happy Chappie Polka,” there’s a bit of playful wackiness to the collection, yet also some loveliness – like William Duckworth’s “Polking Around” and Peter Garland’s “Club Nada Polka.”
