Paul Miller is the unofficial spokesman for remix culture in his persona as DJ Spooky.
Paul Miller is the unofficial spokesman for remix culture in his persona as DJ Spooky.
John Elder Robison, whose younger brother is the writer Augusten Burroughs, did not get his diagnosis of Asperger's until he was in his 40s.
Jim Fadiman is one of the original psychonauts – a friend of Richard Alpert and Ken Kesey in the Sixties – who went on to do pioneering research on psychedelics and creativity, and helped found the transpersonal psychology movement. In this EXTENDED interview, Steve Paulson talks with Fadiman about a lifetime of unconventional thinking.
As Jim prepares to step out of the hosting chair, he welcomes Anne as the new TTBOOK host and reflects on his long career in radio. We also hear listeners' letters to Jim.
Mark Spragg grew up at Holm Lodge, the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming. He talks about growing up on horseback in the American mountain West
Thomas Louis Hardin is an internationally known and respected composer known for decades to New Yorkers as an eccentric street performer who dressed as a Viking and called himself "Moondog." Robert Scotto wrote his biography.
Lawrence Millman wrote the foreward and saw through the publication of Edward Beauclerk Maurice's diary.
K.C. Cole is working on a book about her friend Frank Oppenheimer. Frank was barred from practicing physics during the McCarthy era, and was deeply troubled by the devastation of the bomb.