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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art
Interviewer(s): 
Steve Paulson
Anne Strainchamps
Jim Fleming
07.31.2011
 (was 09.12.2010)

"One of our true superstars of nonfiction." That's how David Foster Wallace described Lewis Hyde. Lewis Hyde talks about his book, "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art." This classic text introduces us to the playful and disruptive side of imagination embodied in trickster mythology. Also, a young anthropologist discovers the importance of the Trickster figure, Coyote, while doing her first fieldwork.

  1. Lewis Hyde on "Trickster Makes This World"

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    Lewis Hyde is the author of the acclaimed "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art." He talks with Steve Paulson about the meaning of the word "trickster."

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  2. Eileen Kane on "Trickster: An Anthropological Memoir"

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    Eileen Kane revisits her experience as a young, newly married, trainee anthropologist studying the Paiute Indians of Nevada.

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  3. Robert Marshall on Carlos Castaneda

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    Robert Marshall says that the late Carlos Castaneda was a literary trickster who invented most of the teachings of Don Juan which made him famous in the sixties.

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  4. Erica Rowell on "The Brothers Grim"

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    Erica Rowell has worked in the movie industry and as a journalist. She's the author of "The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen."

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    Average: 4.3 (12 votes)