Writer Edmund White looks back over 50 years of gay love and liberation. Although married, White has resisted what he calls “gay assimilation”. He talks about the politics of gay sex and promiscuity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Dave Soldier is a neurologist with an unusual hobby. He teaches elephants to play musical instruments.
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
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."
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.
Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.
Claire Tomalin has written a biography of nineteenth century novelist Thomas Hardy which reveals that he thought of himself as primarily a poet.
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