The Next Big Thing Archive
September 2003
In Another Language
Friday, September 26, 2003
The pleasures and pains of translation. Cognitive and computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter on why he likes to re-write poetry and lyrics. Los Angeles Times Book Review editor Steve Wasserman on the politics of translation. Writer Jonathan Ames, speaking the language of caffeine. And singer Barbara Cook, who makes other people’s great songs into her own great songs.
Making It
Friday, September 19, 2003
Stand-up comedians Ahna Tessler and Lauren Engel take their not-yet-screenplay to Hollywood. Listeners try to get their made-up words into the dictionary. And writer Henry Alford ventures into new territory with a singing coach. On a more serious note, Steve Mumford makes art out of war. This week, we track these efforts, both heroic and flawed, to “make it.”
Who Says?
Friday, September 12, 2003
Who says you can’t build a roller coaster in your backyard? Who says you have to go to Harvard to go to Harvard? Who says you have to keep your house exactly as the architect wanted it to be? This week, encounters with people who live by the rules, and people who make up their own rules.
From the Department of Transportation
Friday, September 05, 2003
It’s an hour of our favorite subway stories. We’ve got writer Jonathan Ames investigating that urban legend about hooking up on the “first car.” We’ve got interviews with former students of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram who participated in his little known “Subway Experiment” in the 1970s. We’ve got subway comedy. And we’ve got “True Loves,” a subway drama from former Poet Laureate Mark Strand. This week’s Subway Hour was produced by Curtis Fox.
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