Charles Monroe-Kane profiles one of the ultimate hipsters – musician and cult hero Chuck E. Weiss. With lots of music by him and inspired by him.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Hartman collaborated with his computer to write poetry. He describes his experience in the book “Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry.”
Ralph Nader's Dangerous Idea? Drafting the children and grandchildren of elected representatives.
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Monkees, the pop group with a hit TV show. Michael Nesmith wore the green stocking cap. Since then, he’s reinvented his career several times over. He (sort of) invented country rock. And the music video.
David Bainbridge tells Steve Paulson that as soon as a woman becomes pregnant, the baby begins to dominate her biology, causing significant changes in her immune system.
Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.
Austin Grossman is the author of a novel called "Soon I Will Be Invincible" and tells Jim Fleming that he tried to respect the comics conventions in his prose.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
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