For several days, Robert Olen Butler had a video camera trained on his desk and invited people to watch him write on-line. Butler says the Internet will create new art forms.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nathaniel Lachenmeyer tells Jim Fleming about the history of our suspicion that 13 is an “unlucky” number.
Mort Rosenblum talks about his search for the perfect chocolate.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Fleming talk about television in the novels of writers Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
Nicole-Anne Boyer is a strategic foresight specialist who helps clients come up with realistic projections of the future. She tells Steve Paulson that violent conflicts have actually dramatically decreased since the end of the Cold War...
Janet Cardiff - and her partner George Bures Miller - have created sound, video and installation works that have delighted, seduced, entranced and shaken audiences around the globe. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Cardiff talks with Anne Strainchamps about art and wonder.
Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.
Margaret Salinger talks about her childhood in the woods of New Hampshire with her father, J.D. Salinger.
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