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(Photo by Robert Lee Hughie)
Many acts of imagination. A pro-choice anthropologist tries to get into the heads of her right-to-life subjects. A novelist offers a close-up view of Glenn Gould’s strange behavior. And performer Tracie Morris reinterprets familiar songs with her own “Afrofuturistic” twist. Also, sound art from the floor of the Mercantile Exchange, and tales from trespassers on the grounds of an abandoned institution.
All the News You Hope to Miss
What can we expect in the year 2013? More regime changes? Fewer communicable diseases? Find out in this news forecast, brought to you by our very own correspondents Judith Kampfner, Mary Purdy, and Curtis Fox, with guests Mark O’Donnell and Jonathan Schwarz. Written by Jonathan Schwarz and Mike Gerber.
Beyond Debate
Anthropologist Faye Ginsburg spent many months doing fieldwork among anti-abortion activists in Fargo, North Dakota. While her political views frequently diverged from those of the women she met there, Ginsburg found her perspective complicated by the birth of her own daughter. In the course of a city walk, she and ...
Open Outcry
Every business day, the men and women of the New York Mercantile Exchange stand around in huge circles, shouting at each other, setting the price of the world's commodities. Sound artist Ben Rubin created a layered soundscape of ...
Future Vision
Sound poet Tracie Morris and host Dean Olsher bond over Star Trek and Thelonious Monk, and Morris gives Dean a sneak preview of her multimedia performance “Afrofuturistic,” coming to New York’s downtown theater, the Kitchen, next month. Produced by Amanda Aronczyk.
Trespassing
When Next Big Thing intern Laura Starecheski was in high school, she and her thrill-seeking friends used to spike their adrenaline by sneaking onto the grounds of what they believed to be an abandoned insane asylum. Recently, they returned to the Pennhurst State School and Hospital outside Philadelphia to see ...
Scenes from the Life of Glenn Gould
Zooming in on well-known scenes from the life of a brilliant musician, writer John Haskell uses fiction to try to interpret Glenn Gould’s famously idiosyncratic behavior. It’s an adaptation of a short story in Haskell’s debut collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock. Produced by Emily Botein.
Dear Diary
As Next Big Thing contributor Meg Wolitzer can attest, these are hard times for novelists whose new work is hitting the shelf; Meg’s novel The Wife just came out, and she’s feeling somewhat challenged by competing events on the world stage. If Meg were one to keep an audio diary, ...
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