Dave Barry went on the campaign trail with some of the lesser known presidential candidates and describes some of the humiliation they encounter.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Alarcon is from Peru and the author of “Lost City Radio,” a fable about a nameless country broken in the aftermath of war and the woman who does a radio program for the families of the disappeared.
From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.
David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.
Chris Rodriguez is a felon serving time at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, NY. Some of his writing is included in the anthology “Undoing Time."
Claire Tomalin has written a biography of nineteenth century novelist Thomas Hardy which reveals that he thought of himself as primarily a poet.
Augustin De la Pena is a psycho-physiologist who works at a sleep disorders center in South Texas, and a leading authority on boredom.
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