Jonathan Bond tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the innovative things he did in his TV ads for Snapple, and describes a couple of cases where advertisers used live actors to create living commercials that no one in the audience knew were commercials.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor nearly died from a massive stroke at the age of 37. The experience taught her life lessons on how the mind perceives the world.
Michael Benson is a film-maker who’s compiled an extraordinary book of still photographs. Lawrence Weschler wrote the book’s Afterward.
What happens when you discover racial fear in yourself? Rachel Shadoan recently reached an uncomfortable conclusion: she was afraid of black men. Rachel was appalled and decided to do something about it. She tells her story in an article titled, "I am racist and so are you."
Former TTBOOK producer and interviewer Judith Strasser was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2005. Last summer, a tumor in her lungs attacked the nerve which controls the larynx, making it difficult, but not impossible, for her to speak.
Paul Hegarty is a lecturer in Philosophy and Visual Culture at University College Cork in Ireland. He's also really into Noise/Music and is the author of "Noise/Music: A History."
Redmond O’Hanlon is travel writer who’s braved the Congo, Borneo and the Amazon. This time around, he tries his luck on a trawler in the icy Atlantic in dangerous waters.
Nobody writes a dystopia quite the way Margaret Atwood does. In this EXTENDED conversation about MaddAddam - and a whole lot more - Atwood talks about utopia and dystopia, and the inherent optimism of all authors.
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