The Leonard Lopate Show
Thoughts Into Action
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Playwright Edward Albee and artist James Rosenquist explain how they channel their creativity into action. Also: a new novel about the great inventor Nikola Tesla. A new film set in 1970, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. And on Underreported: an important tiger conservation effort stretching from Bhutan to Malaysia.
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Edward Albee and James Rosenquist: Turning Creativity into Action
Playwright Edward Albee and artist James Rosenquist explain how they channel their creativity into action. They’re featured in the new book, Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds, co-edited by Richard Gerstman.
Weigh in: Do you ever have a hard time turning your creativity into action? Tell us what your creative blocks are, and how you’ve overcome them.
Imagining Nikola Tesla
Samantha Hunt spent 4 years researching Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Her novel The Invention of Everything Else imagines an unlikely friendship between Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where he lived out his last days.
Event: Samantha Hunt will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, February 7 at 7 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince Street (between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets)
Explore Tesla through our Interactive Map
Weigh in: Tesla was known for his fantastic inventions. If you could invent an object that would do anything you wanted, what would it be?
Read an excerpt of The Invention of Everything Else
WNYC Culture Blog: Samantha Hunt guest blogs for two weeks
Tesla Interactive map
Mitt Romney Drops Out of Race
WNYC's political director Andrea Bernstein joins Leonard to discuss Mitt Romney's announcement that he's dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Cao Hamburger’s film, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation," is set in a Jewish neighborhood in Brazil in 1970, a year where Brazil was caught up in a military dictatorship and winning the World Cup in soccer. The film opens Friday, February 15 at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema (143 East Houston Street).
Official website for "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation"
Underreported: Tiger Corridor from Bhutan to Malaysia
Dr. Alan Rabinowitz of the Wildlife Conservation Society is helping to create a multi-national tiger conservation effort stretching from Bhutan to Malaysia. It’s a very complex undertaking, requiring the cooperation of businesses, NGOs, and governments – including the repressive military regime of Myanmar. Dr. Rabinowitz’s recent book is Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed.
Event: Dr. Alan Rabinowitz will be in conversation with Robert Krulwich
Thursday, Feb. 7 at 8:15 pm
92nd Street Y
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Tickets and info here or call (212) 415-5500
Wildlife Conservation Society website
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