Shows by Year

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Show Title	Air Date(s)	Interviews
Cross Talk	05.26.2013 08.26.2012	Gezellig! Food in Translation with Jonathan Gold Timely Translations of the Talmud Listening to Zambia J-Pop! Music East and West Political Culture Divide
Creative Insight	05.26.2013	Jim Fadiman on Psychedelics Suzzy Roche on "Wayward Saints" Austin Kleon on "Steal Like an Artist" Kenneth Goldsmith on "Uncreative Writing"
Art & Craft	05.19.2013	What Are You Making? Craft, Reconsidered - Glenn Adamson Inside Out Art Crafting Technology Making Punk - Richard Hell
Quiet, Please	05.19.2013 06.24.2012	Susan Cain on "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" George Michelsen Foy on "Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence" Kyle Gann on "No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33" Garret Keizer on "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise"
Re-Thinking Education	05.12.2013 06.03.2012	Alfie Kohn on Progressive Education Astra Taylor and Dana Goldstein on the Schooling Debate Jody Lewen on the Prison University Project Sean Pica on Earning His Degree in Prison
The Internet	05.12.2013	Jaron Lanier on "Who Owns the Future?" Douglas Rushkoff on "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now" Gabriella Coleman on "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking" James Lasdun on "Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked"
Henry David Thoreau	05.05.2013 05.06.2012	Tom Fate on "Cabin Fever" "Walden" Reading Jeffrey Cramer on Historical Thoreau Davyd Betchkal on Denali soundscapes Terry Tempest Williams on Thoreau Terry Tempest Williams on "When Women Were Birds"
Owning Your Body	05.05.2013	The Scar Project The Barbershop Aubrey Ralph - a look at being transgender Jim Fleming on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Sally Gross on movement and dance David Stockman on The Great Deformation
Poems Old and New	04.28.2013 06.17.2012	Poetry: Past, Present and... Poems in Our Pockets Poems, History and Memory with Natasha Trethewey Poesis with Anne Carson
Poems Old & New - Rebroadcast	04.28.2013	Poetry Past & Present - Christian Wiman Poems in Our Pockets Natasha Trethewey - U.S. Poet Laureate Poesis with Anne Carson
Physics & The Big Questions	04.28.2013 06.03.2012	Lawrence Krauss & Marcelo Gleiser on Something from Nothing Dava Sobel on Copernicus Lisa Randall on Dark Matter & Dark Energy Margaret Wertheim on Fringe Physics
Food and Politics	04.21.2013 06.10.2012	Dickson Despommier on Vertical Farming Will Allen on Urban Farming Karen Le Billon on French Kids Eat Everything Jennet Conant on Julia Child and the O.S.S. Aaron Bobrow-Strain on White Bread
Scientific Revolution	04.21.2013	Rupert Sheldrake on "Science Set Free" Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Margalit Fox on "The Riddle of the Labyrinth" Stephen Greenblatt on "The Swerve" Daphne Sheldrick on "Love, Life and Elephants"
Into the Woods	04.14.2013 04.29.2012	David George Haskell on the Forest Unseen Stephen Long on How to Read a Forest Terry Tempest Williams on Walking in the Woods Marina Warner on Enchanted Forests Stephen Sondheim on "Into the Woods"
Innovative Fiction	04.14.2013 05.27.2012	Etgar Keret on "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door" Helen DeWitt on "Lightning Rods" Mark Leyner on "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack" Gerald Nicosia and Al Hinkle on "On the Road" Ryan Boudinot on "Blueprints of the Afterlife"
Brainstorm	04.07.2013 04.15.2012	Martha Herbert on "The Autism Revolution" David and Kristen Finch on Asperger diagnosis Richard Davidson on the Emotional Brain Frank Browning on the Dancing Brain V.S. Ramachandran on Phantom Limb Syndrome
Copies	04.07.2013	Bianca Bosker on "Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China" Marcus Boon on "In Praise of Copying" Barry Vacker on "The End of the World -- Again: Why the Apocalypse Meme Replicates in Media, Science, and Culture" Emily Anthes on "Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts" Christa Parravani on "Her"
Sympathy for the Devil	03.31.2013 05.27.2012	Jack Abramoff on Lobbying Marshall Curry on The Earth Liberation Front The Redemption of General Butt Naked Jim Fleming essay on a grey world
Behind the Scenes	03.31.2013	TTBOOK'S first interview with Sherman Alexie TTBOOK looks back at Amy-Wallace Havens on her brother David Foster Wallace TTBOOK reflects on David Foster Wallace's Commencent Speech TTBOOK's first interview with biologist E.O. Wilson TTBOOK looks back at jazz singer Kurt Elling
Minding Mortality	03.24.2013 05.20.2012	At the Hour of Our Death William Irvine, Stoic for Life Death, Experienced How Dying Changes Us Life in Death, Death in Life Writing Life and Death
10 Years in Iraq	03.24.2013	10 Years in Iraq - Donovan Campbell 10 Years in Iraq - Kayla Williams 10 Years in Iraq - Kevin Powers 10 Years in Iraq - Colby Buzzell 10 Years in Iraq - Brian Turner
Airports	03.17.2013 05.06.2012	Alain de Botton on "A Week at the Airport" Greg Lindsay on "Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next" David Sheppard on Brian Eno's "Music for Airports" Christopher Schaberg on "The Textual Life of Airports"
The Short Story	03.17.2013	George Saunders on "Tenth of December" Tom Perrotta on "Best American Short Stories 2012" Karen Russell on "Vampires in the Lemon Grove"
Writing Fiction vs Non-Fiction	03.10.2013 02.12.2012	William Gibson on "Distrust That Particular Flavor" John D'Agata and Jim Fingal on "The Lifespan of a Fact" Jonathan Lethem on "The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc." Joan Didion on "Blue Nights"
We Are All Connected	03.10.2013	Lada Adamic on data science at Facebook Alexander Stille on Revolutionary Poetry in Somalia Olga Nunes on voice mail Miguel Paz on Poderopedia Jason Rohrer on Chain World
Crossroads	03.03.2013	Jose Antonio Vargas on Being Undocumented Eddie Huang on Fresh Off the Boat Ron Corn, Jr. on Saving the Menominee Language The Story of the Arabian Nights Yotam Ottolenghi on Jerusalem
After the Romance	03.03.2013	28 Firsts - Whitney Jones Passionate Marriage? Open Up? Husband & Husband Smiling Singles? Break-Up Songs
Film and Philosophy	02.24.2013	"To The Best of Our Knowledge: The Movie" Geoff Dyer on "Zona" J.J. Murphy on Andy Warhol's Films Kim Evans on "Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter" Barry Vacker on "Fight Club"
American Invention	02.24.2013 05.13.2012	Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine Darin Gibby on Why America has stopped inventing Marcus Wohlsen on Biopunks Anna Dietrich on the flying car Robert Glasper on his album "Black Radio"
Back to the Land, Again	02.17.2013 04.27.2012	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 Cheryl Strayed on Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Atheists, Believers & The Secular	02.17.2013 03.18.2012	Alain de Botton on "Religion for Atheists" Adam Frank on spiritual atheism Anne Rice on leaving Catholicism Diana Butler Bass on "Christianity after Religion" Charles Taylor on the Secular
Precious Ink	02.10.2013	Listeners on their Saved Handwriting Adam Mansbach on Graffiti Writing Scott Topper on the Dangers of Writing and Reading Kitty Burns Florey on the Rise and Fall of Handwriting Listeners on their Saved Handwriting II Samara O'Shea on Letter Writing DT Max on the Letters of David Foster Wallace
Love Lust Longing	02.10.2013	Digital Matchmaking - Dan Slater A Kiss from Outer Space Something At First Sight Sex & Search Engines - Ogi Ogas Redefining Romance - David Jay on Asexuality Seduce Me - Betsy Prioleau An Affair to Remember Love 2.0 - Barbara Fredrickson
Stories of You	02.03.2013 02.19.2012	Narrative Identity 101 Forget Your Self You & Your Brain Contemplating Our Selves Stories of Us
The Super Bowl	02.03.2013	SUPER BOWL XLVII - The Billion Dollar Game SUPER BOWL XLVII - Shaun Alexander SUPER BOWL XLVII - Football and War SUPER BOWL XLVII - History of Sunday SUPER BOWL XLVII - The spirituality of football SUPER BOWL XLVII - High School Football in Ohio
Amazonia	01.27.2013 01.01.2012	Scott Wallace on "The Unconquered" Jeremy Narby on "The Cosmic Serpent" Ann Patchett on "State of Wonder" James Moore on Alfred Russel Wallace
A**holes	01.27.2013	Geoffrey Nunberg on "Ascent of the A-Word" Terry Gross Gene Simmons Mashup Aaron James on "Assholes: A Theory" Doug Gordon on A**holes and Mental Health Robert Sutton on "The No Asshole Rule"
Philip K. Dick	01.20.2013 03.04.2012	Umberto Rossi on "The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick" Anne Dick on "The Search for Philip K. Dick" Jonathan Lethem on Philp K. Dick's Novels David Gill on Film Versions of Philip K. Dick's Work Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick's "The Exegesis"
The Making of a President	01.20.2013	Michael Lewis on Obama Lincoln interviews David Maraniss on Barack Obama Rebecca Traister - A Female President? Robert Caro on LBJ
TMI?	01.13.2013 04.08.2012	David Weinberger on "Too Big to Know" Steve Paulson on Knowledge David Siegel on Personal Data Lockers Aleph Molinari on the Knowledge Divide David Kobia on Ushahidi David McCandless on Beautiful Information
Seekers	01.13.2013	Dao Chang - Searching for My Mother Laura King - Covering Afghanistan Kevin Sheppard - Basketball in Iran Winifred Gallagher on "New" Christopher Stewart on "Jungleland"
The Great American Scoundrel	01.06.2013 03.11.2012	Erin McKean on the definition of scoundrel James Hessler on "Sickles at Gettysburg" Alan Huffman on Opposition Research Elizabeth Mahon on Women Scoundrels Rev. Ivan Stang on The Church of the SubGenius
Cracking Up	01.06.2013	Kevin Dutton on "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" Susannah Cahalan on "Brain on Fire" Daniel Smith on "Monkey Mind" Oliver Sacks on "Hallucinations"

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