Eric Lax has had regular conversations with Woody Allen over the past 36 years which he's turned into a book called "Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies and Moviemaking."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hiking. Fishing. Camping. What about using the parks for, well, being a bad ass. The documentary “Valley Uprising” tells the story of the rock climbers who have dared El Capitan – the 3000 foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park. Nick Rosen is the film’s director. He told Steve Paulson that the story starts back in the 1950s. Before climbing wall gyms. Before it was even legal to climb in Yosemite.
Listen in on this UNCUT interview from the Into the Woods show. He tells Jim Fleming about what twigs have to teach us about climate change, and the poetry of the forest.
Colin Thubron tells Jim Fleming why Siberians are drawn to the old Orthodox religion, and recalls his visit with an old man who may be Siberia's last remaining shaman.
If you had to pick one writer, one poet, who has persistently reminded us of the connection between inner and outer landscapes it would be Terry Tempest Williams. She's advocated again and again for the preservation of wild places and the importance of national wilderness through books like “Refuge,” “Desert Quartet,” “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” and “When Women Were Birds.” She'll soon be releasing a new book -- “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.”
Writer Charles Baxter understands the inner world of teenagers. He shares a tale of teen angst from his novel, “Saul and Patsy.”
Dan Everett went to the Amazon as a young Christian missionary and became captivated by the Indian people he'd come to convert and their totally unknown language.
Daniel Cere tells Steve Paulson that the marriage bond is unique and enjoys a primordial power.
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