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Arts + Culture: Interview Topics
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ARTS
At the Hour of Our Death
Life in Death, Death in Life
Close-up Death
David Sheppard on Brian Eno's "Music for Airports"
Stephen Sondheim on "Into the Woods"
Frank Browning on the Dancing Brain
David McCandless on Beautiful Information
Austin Kleon on "Steal Like an Artist"
Kenneth Goldsmith on "Uncreative Writing"
Jonah Lehrer on "Imagine: How Creativity Works"
Jonah Lehrer on Creativity
Charles McNair on Literary Criticism
David Gill on Film Versions of Philip K. Dick's Work
Stories of Us
Jonathan Lethem on "The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc."
Astra Taylor's "Examined Life"
James Der Derian on Academics at War
Shepard Fairey - from Obey to Hope
Laughing at Pain
Jonathan Harris on Cowbird
The Late Vaclav Havel on Art and Politics
CULTURE
Life in Death, Death in Life
Close-up Death
Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine
Terry Tempest Williams on "When Women Were Birds"
Alain de Botton on "A Week at the Airport"
Christopher Schaberg on "The Textual Life of Airports"
Terry Tempest Williams on Walking in the Woods
Marina Warner on Enchanted Forests
Melissa Coleman on a Childhood Spent Back to the Land
Jeremy Seifert on Food Waste in America
William Powers on the Art of Living Small
Aleph Molinari on the Knowledge Divide
Jonah Lehrer on "Imagine: How Creativity Works"
Austin Kleon on "Steal Like an Artist"
Kenneth Goldsmith on "Uncreative Writing"
Elizabeth Mahon on Women Scoundrels
James Hessler on "Sickles at Gettysburg"
Lesley Kagen Comes Home to Milwaukee
Michael Perry on Being a Wisconsin Writer
Charles McNair on Literary Criticism
Stephen Thompson on "The Onion" and Regionalism
LITERATURE
Jens Lapidus on "Easy Money"
Life in Death, Death in Life
Life with LBJ
Terry Tempest Williams on "When Women Were Birds"
Christopher Schaberg on "The Textual Life of Airports"
"Walden" Reading
Terry Tempest Williams on Thoreau
David George Haskell on the Forest Unseen
Stephen Sondheim on "Into the Woods"
Christian Wiman on Writing Life and Death - UNCUT
Terry Tempest Williams on Walking in the Woods
Marina Warner on Enchanted Forests
Steve Paulson on Information and TTBOOK
Steve Paulson on Knowledge
Kenneth Goldsmith on "Uncreative Writing"
Suzzy Roche on "Wayward Saints"
Erin McKean on the definition of scoundrel
Michael Perry on Being a Wisconsin Writer
Marilynne Robinson on Being a Writer from the West
Charles McNair on Literary Criticism
Jonathan Lethem on Philp K. Dick's Novels
MUSIC
Robert Glasper on his album "Black Radio"
David Sheppard on Brian Eno's "Music for Airports"
Stephen Sondheim on "Into the Woods"
Frank Browning on the Dancing Brain
Suzzy Roche on "Wayward Saints"
Stephen Thompson on "The Onion" and Regionalism
This Will Make You Smarter
The Other F Word
Butch Vig on Music Industry Trends
Butch Vig: A Musical Life in Trends
Anna Rabinowitz on "Darkling"
Penny Von Eschen on the Jazz Ambassadors
Salman Amhad on Pakistani Rock and Roll and Democracy
Mamek Khadem on Songs of the Revolution
MC Yogi on Sacred Hip Hop
Simon Reynolds on "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past"
Simon Reynolds on "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past"
Amiri Baraka on "This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra"
Charles Limb on Neuroscience of Jazz
Angelique Kidjo on Benin
Harvey Sachs on "The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824"
SPORTS
Aimee Mullins on Superpowers
Jim Fleming reads Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
Gretchen Reynolds on Running Myths
Christopher McDougall on the Tarahumara tribe
Jason Robillard on Barefoot Running
Andre Agassi on "Open"
Christopher McDougall on the Tarahumara tribe
Jason Robillard on Barefoot Running
Gretchen Reynolds on Running Myths
Jim Fleming reads Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
Arthur De Vany on Modern Cavemen
Geoff Nicholson on the Art of Walking
Lincoln Hall on Dying on Everest
Stanley Coren on Modern Dogs
Kim Hiss on Women & Hunting
Frank Boll on Photographing Wolves
Tim Gallagher on Falcon Fever
Donald Waller on "The Vanishing Present"
Bob Stout on Bowhunting
Tina Bertoni on Hunting Bear
Andre Agassi on "Open"
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