On today’s show: We’ll get an update on the Democratic National Convention! And Ta-Nehisi Coates looks at the role race is playing in this year’s presidential campaign. Gretchen Rubin tells us about her project to make her home a happier place. Emma Straub talks about her new novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures. Plus, Paul Tough looks at why children’s success depends less on intelligence and more on skills like curiosity, optimism, and self-control.
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Join The Brian Lehrer Show at the Democratic National Convention for a special preview of tonight's events.
Join host Amy Eddings from New York and Jennifer Ludden from NPR in Washington, DC for special coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
For this New Sounds, hear music from the radical, innovative, mischievous, inventive, and influential John Cage, the notorious sound-experimenter, subscriber to chance, mycology aficionado, and player of chess. He would have been 100 years old today. Listen to one of his pieces that creates space and stasis, “In a Landscape,” from a 1991 in-studio performance by Margaret Leng-Tan.
