Mad Men Producer Matthew Weiner may have created the character of Don Draper, but he is nothing like his inscrutable leading man. Get the download here.

Joshua Ferris, Ron Carlson and Padgett Powell join forces at Joe's Pub as part of the Happy Ending series.

David M. Buss believes that sex isn’t just for pleasure and reproduction.  He's an evolutionary psychologist and a professor at the University of Texas, and he spoke about everybody’s favorite topic at the American Museum of Natural History on February 3rd.

In case you hadn't noticed, email is ruining your life.  The solution, according to two bookworms and lovers of language, is to bring back good, old-fashioned letter-writing. Stream that conversation, and actress Jane Curtin's reading of a sassy 19th century epistolary treat, here.

Mike Chico, a 56-year-old building super, is one of the many unique individuals interviewed as part of the Rubin Museum's "Red Book Dialogue" series, based on Carl Jung's The Red Book.

“I’m just dog pedaling in dark high water, because this thing is a mind-blowing image,” said Professor Cornell West when he was given one of two images from Carl Jung's Red Book. Stream West's perspective on Jung's project here.

Writer and composer John Adams' discusses Carl Jung's paintings. and travels in the unconscious mind. Stream the conversation here.

Writers including  Kate Walbert and Marie Howe read dramatic, hilarious, heart-breaking works. Stream their readings here.

Writers Colm McCann, Jonathan Dee and Rich Benjamen dug deep into the heart of America: white America, urban America, rootless America. They were all in the house for the Happy Ending series at Joe’s Pub. 

Stefan Sagmeister, award-winning artist and graphic designer, joined Jungian analyst-in-training Patricia Llosa for The Red Book Dialogues at The Rubin Museum.

Psychic Pattie Canova performs a tarot card reading for long-dead Carl Jung. Stream the results of her reading here.

Andrew Harvey, scholar and author of many books on spirituality, joined Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant on the Rubin Museum stage this past month as a part of "The Red Book Dialogue" series.

Film director Andre Gregory made more than polite dinner conversation recently at the Rubin Museum. In the new "Red Book Dialogue" series, Gregory brought up some major daddy issues when confronted with the sketch of an abstract-looking horned manimal. 

Stream Adam Gopnik's perspective on Jung's expression of artistic turbulence.

PlaNYC, New York's ambitious sustainability plan for the next two decades, turned two years old on Earth Day 2009. To commemorate, former Deputy Mayor and PlaNYC mastermind Daniel Doctoroff took part in a panel discussion about urban planning at the Museum of the City of New York.

There is still an American Avant-Garde in poetry!

Why do meat-eating men and women love shoulders, but not lips? Ribs, but not ears? Chowing down on pig's feet causes many to recoil, yet cheese that smells like feet is delectable?

The American economy is in the tank, crippled by bad mortgages and badly-behaving banks. Europe’s nations are unfortunately following suit, and no one knows exactly how to fix any of it.

Top chef Mario Batali and food scholar Paul Rozin continue their discussion about disgust in the second part of their two-part "Talk to Me" podcast.

The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature brings writers from around the world to New York for discussions, lectures and performances that spotlight and celebrate the written word’s ability to bridge the largest cultural gaps.