Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Fleming talk about television in the novels of writers Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson talks with Raul Galvan, one of the leaders of the delegation, about Cuba’s national sport: baseball.
Ned Rorem tells Jim Fleming that the world of classical music is all about money today and that performers seem to matter even more than the music.
Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.
Matthew Johnson founded Far Possum Records to preserve the Delta and Hill Country blues he loves. Now he produces recordings which feature hip-hop and techno style re-mixes of his classic recordings.
The world's most famous atheist, Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," visits with Steve Paulson and demonstrates why he's been called "Darwin's rottweiler."
Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
Physicist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson why she wanted to write about mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, and why her book is a novel.
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