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Week of March 31, 2013

Behind the Scenes

03.31.2013

Ever wonder what it’s like behind on the scenes on TTBOOK?  Being in studio while the energy and imagination of Sherman Alexie bounces off the wall?  Or listening to a former divinity-student turned jazz-singer explain the mysterious force that sings through him?  This hour, we go back to some of our most powerful interviews and take you along for the ride. 

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  1. TTBOOK'S first interview with Sherman Alexie

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    Sherman Alexie is a one-man culture industry.  He's also pretty much a rock star guest.  Steve Paulson and Veronica Rueckert look back on his first interview with TTBOOK.

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  2. TTBOOK looks back at Amy-Wallace Havens on her brother David Foster Wallace

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    In this look behind the scenes, producer Veronica Rueckert and Anne Strainchamps remember our interview with Amy Wallace-Havens, the sister of the late David Foster Wallace. 

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  3. TTBOOK reflects on David Foster Wallace's Commencent Speech

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    In 2005, David Foster Wallace addressed the graduating class at Kenyon College in California.  Anne Strainchamps looks back at this recording and what it's come to mean to her and her family.

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  4. TTBOOK's first interview with biologist E.O. Wilson

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    The nexus of science and religion has become a point of passion for interviewer Steve Paulson.  In this segment, Steve looks back at TTBOOK's first interview with biologist E.O. Wilson.

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  5. TTBOOK looks back at jazz singer Kurt Elling

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    Jazz singer Kurt Elling inspires with his passion for music and the mysterious.  Jim Fleming looks back at this illuminating interview with jazz singer Kurt Elling.

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Sympathy for the Devil

Sympathy for the Devil

03.31.2013
 (was 05.27.2012)

What do we do with the devil among us?  Not, you know, a metaphorical Satan or Lucifer. . . I mean REAL people, who’ve committed REAL atrocities. Terrorists. Serial killers. People we’d all agree are. . . well… But what if they repent? Ask for forgiveness? Seek atonement?

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  1. Jack Abramoff on Lobbying

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    Jack Abramoff.  He’s hardly a murderer. But to many in the Beltline, he’s the devil incarnate.

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  2. Marshall Curry on The Earth Liberation Front

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    There’s one devil we NEVER sympathize with: the terrorist.  But... Hold on.  Not so fast, says filmmaker Marshall Curry.

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  3. The Redemption of General Butt Naked

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    Are there – should there be – limits to the kind of sins that can be redeemed? What about mass murder?

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  4. Jim Fleming essay on a grey world

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    TTBOOK host Jim Fleming responds to the documentary  film “If a Tree Falls” that follows Daniel McGowan – a convicted terrorist… currently serving time. McGowan used arson as political protest with The Earth Liberation Front – a group the FBI considers America’s number one domestic terrorist threat.

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