Orville Schell tells Jim Fleming that Westerners have always romanticized Tibet. He’s observed it for years and concedes that even under Chinese domination, Tibet remains a unique and entrancing place.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Piers Steel describes himself as a semi-reformed procrastinator. He is an authority on the science of motivation and teaches at the University of Calgary.
Ken Nordine is the epitome of jazz poetry. He has an amazing voice. His nickname is, in fact, "The Voice." Best known for his Word Jazz series, this poem is one he did for a paint company. The paint company is long forgotten but the poem lives on.
Kirsten Bakis first wrote her story of biomechanically-enhanced, hyper-intelligent dogs 20 years ago, and it’s been a cult favorite ever since. So why create a post-modern Frankenstein story with dogs at the heart of the tale?
Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.
In his last few years, Sacks revealed more details about his own life. One of the most remarkable revelations was his extensive use of LSD and other hallucinogens in the ‘60s. He tells Steve Paulson that psychedelics nearly killed him, but they also opened his mind to new ways of seeing the world.
Richard Ranft says the oceans are teeming with noises and plays Jim Fleming a few examples from snapping shrimp to amorous haddock and walruses.
Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.
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