Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The style of type used by the Obama campaign is called Gotham and was designed by the team of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
Jerome Charyn tells Steve Paulson about some of the great ping-pong matches of the past and reflects on the worldwide popularity of the game.
Richard Ranft says the oceans are teeming with noises and plays Jim Fleming a few examples from snapping shrimp to amorous haddock and walruses.
Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
Writer and writing coach Natalie Goldberg tells Anne Strainchamps how two of the most important men in her life - her father and her Zen master – failed her.
While coastal dialects are being lost, new American dialects are developing all the time as American English evolves.
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