Composer and scholar Gunther Schuller talks with Steve Paulson about creativity and gives examples from both classical music and jazz.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Glen Tilbrook is a British singer and songwriter. He suffered a massive panic attack when he was supposed to interview Randy Newman.
Harriet Reisen tells Anne Strainchamps that Alcott loved to anonymously write racy thrillers and organized women's political activity decades before suffrage was won.
Film-maker George Ratliff took a crew to Hell House - a Halloween haunted house produced by the Trinity Assembly of God Church in Crawford, Texas. The church’s goal is to scare teenagers away from the behavior they believe leads to eternal damnation.
"Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini's got a new book out. "And the Mountains Echoed" is a tale of love that spans the globe, from Afghanistan to America to Greece. In this UNCUT interview he talks about the book and the nations through which its tale weaves.
In this uncut interview, George Saunders talks to Steve Paulson about his critically-acclaimed short story collection, “Tenth of December.”
45 years ago, long-haired hippies and flower children from across the Midwest converged on a small Wisconsin farm for a weekend of peace, love and music including a band people were just beginning to talk about at the time - The Grateful Dead. Historian Michael Edmonds tells the story.
A deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards has been used by artists to create music and write book.
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