He talks about his new CD, "Sorry We're Open," and his future projects.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Natsuo Kirino is one of Japan's best known writers. We sample an excerpt from her psychological thriller, Real World.
Neil Innes wrote and sang the tunes for The Rutles, who were Eric Idle’s parody of The Beatles.
Robert Wright tells Steve Paulson that the history of monotheism was shaped by the political events of the turbulent ancient Middle East and that Jesus was not a prophet of peace but a typical Jewish apocalyptic preacher obsessed with the approaching End Times.
Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale." It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.
Steve Paulson presents a profile of the late writer Noel Perrin, best known for his essays on rural life.
Filmmaker Philip Groning talks with Anne Strainchamps about the six months of silence he filmed with the Carthusian monks of the Grand Chartreuse in the French Alps.
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