Feminist film critic Molly Haskell talks about how Hollywood has treated the subject of writer’s block, and we hear clips from “Adaptation” and “Barton Fink.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Kornbluh, directs the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project. He’s just published “The Pinochet File,” which uses recently declassified documents to prove that there was American involvement at the highest levels of government in the efforts to foment chaos in Chile.
Nick Flynn is the author of a memoir of his complex relationship with his father, who showed up as a client at the homeless shelter where Nick was working.
Reporter Matt Lieber offers his reflections on crossword puzzles and the people who love them, from the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held in Stamford, CT in 2002.
We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Fleming talk about television in the novels of writers Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez served as Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. His new memoir, "Wiser in Battle," is a scathing critique of the Bush administration's planning and execution of the war in Iraq.
Michael Feldman, host of public radio’s comedy quiz show “Whad’ya Know,” provides his take on Groucho and putting audience members down when you still want them to like you.
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