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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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.
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.
Margaret Salinger talks about her childhood in the woods of New Hampshire with her father, J.D. Salinger.
August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid large purchases. It's also the setting for Ed Lin's newest mystery. Lin is a 3-time winner of the Asian-American Literary Award.
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.
Jeffery Sachs discusses why we need a new economic model rooted in an environmentally sustainable future.
Mark Ross talks recounts the nightmare of being kidnaped, along with a group of tourists he was guiding, by armed rebels in Uganda.
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