Tag: Arts & Ideas
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In the Company of Angels
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Thomas E. Kennedy discusses his novel In the Company of Angels, about a Chilean exile in Copenhagen who was imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet's henchmen for teaching political poetry and a survivor of domestic abuse who and the two struggle to heal and to forgive those who have harmed ...
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Mark Twain’s Other Woman
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Preeminent Twain scholar Laura Skandera Trombley, talks about what happened during the years after the death of Mark Twain’s wife and how that time affected him personally and professionally. In Mark Twain’s Other Woman, Trombley draws on sixteen years of research, uncovering never-before-read papers and personal letters, to tell ...
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Making Waves
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Captain Richard Phillips describes his experience being held hostage by Somali pirates. And we’ll find out how the death of Mark Twain's wife affected his personal and professional life. Also, novelist Thomas Kennedy talks about his latest book. Then, our latest Underreported segment looks at President Obama’s 2011 military budget…even ...
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Time Together with Carol Burnett
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Carol Burnett discusses becoming one of the pioneering queens of television comedy and describes what went on behind the scenes of "The Carol Burnett Show," which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1978. Her book This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection looks back at her friendships and her remarkable ...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. Martine Franck, photographer and widow of Cartier-Bresson, and Peter Galassi, Chief Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, discuss the photographer’s career and extraordinary body of ...
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A Ticket to the Circus
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Norman Mailer’s wife of more than thirty years, Norris Church Mailer, talks about leaving the comforts of small-town Arkansas and meeting and falling in love in with Norman Mailer in one night. Her memoir A Ticket to the Circus, she describes the challenges—and rewards—of life with Norman Mailer, from ...
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Among Friends
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
On today's show we’ll get a glimpse into how Lehman Brothers’ was undone from within. Then, Norris Church Mailer talks about her complicated 30-plus-year marriage to Norman Mailer. Also, Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, We’ll talk to his widow and to the ...
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When I Stop Talking You’ll Know I’m Dead
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Jerry Weintraub, Hollywood producer and deal maker gives a chronicle of his remarkable career. In When I Stop Talking You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man Weintraub tells about his great successes with Elvis Presley, Sinatra and the Rat Pack, as a movie producer, and as ...
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Solar
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Novelist Ian McEwan talks about his latest book Solar, about a Nobel prize–winning physicist faced with fixing his crumbling marriage, reviving his career, and even possibly saving the world from environmental disaster.
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Strong Foundations
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
New Yorker editor David Remnick explains how President Obama has carved out his own unique place in American history. Then, Alice Waters describes how to cook food that’s sustainable – and delicious. And Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, Solar, about a scientist who may have found a way to ...
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Dead End Gene Pool
Monday, April 05, 2010
Wendy Burden, talks about growing up the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Her memoir Dead End Gene Pool is a glimpse into one of the wealthiest families in New York that, by the time of her birth, were seen as doomed bluebloods in financial and moral decline.
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Can Animals Be Gay?
Friday, April 02, 2010
Jon Mooallem explores homosexual activity in the animal world—from albatrosses to flamingos, bison, and even warthogs. He looks into what humans perceive as “natural” behavior, and examines how various forms of homosexual activity has been documented in over 450 different species. His article “Can Animals Be Gay?” appears ...
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Green and Gay, Flora and Fructose
Friday, April 02, 2010
On today’s show, Julie Burstein fills in for Leonard Lopate. Find out why some environmental groups have come out in favor of policies that some say harm the environment more than protect it. Then, we’ll get the latest on the science of same-sex animal attraction. Also, we’ll take a look ...
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Adventures in Taxidermy
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Journalist Melissa Milgrom explores taxidermy—from the skilled taxidermists at the American Museum of Natural History to the preservers of the animals in Damien Hirst's artworks. In Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy she takes readers into this eccentric, unusual world.
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The Weight of the World
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Guest host Julie Burstein fills in for Leonard Lopate. She’ll talk to Nancy Sherman about the psychological and moral weight war has on soldiers. And Wall Street Journal columnist Jeremy Singer-Vine tells us about the latest medical research and how you can use it. Then, we’ll find out about the ...
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Make It Work!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Project Runway’s style mentor Tim Gunn talks about his role on the show, his career, his style guidelines, and about appearing as hero fighting crimes against fashion in Marvel’s comic Models, Inc.
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Raquel Welch
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Actress Raquel Welch discusses about her career, her unexpected role as a sex symbol, and offers advice for women of all ages on courage, grace, and self-respect. Her new book Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, is part autobiography, part personal philosophy, and part practical guide to life.
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Orphan Film Symposium
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Director of the Orphan Film Symposium, Dan Streible, associate professor of cinema studies at NYU, and associate director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, discusses the 2010 Orphan Film Symposium, the seventh biennial gathering of archivists, scholars, preservationists, curators, collectors, and media artists devoted to saving, ...
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Working It!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
On today's show, guest host Jonathan Capehart sits in for Leonard! He’ll talk with Bill Ayres and Lyn Pentecost about the hunger crisis in America and what’s being called the hunger-obesity paradox. And Dan Streible, director of the Orphan Film Symposium discusses what’s in store for the 2010 biennial. Then, ...
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Dining with Al-Qaeda
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Hugh Pope, an acclaimed former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, has lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the Middle East. In Dining with Al-Qaeda, he presents a modern-day exploration of the politics, religion, and aspirations of Muslim peoples to show how the Middle East is ...