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Orhan Pamuk and his Museum: This is your brain on novels…
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Orhan Pamuk. (28 , 13 mb mp3)
Orhan Pamuk in his six Norton Lectures at Harvard this ...
Whose Words These Are (18): Keith Waldrop
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Keith Waldrop. (23 , 11 meg mp3)
Keith Waldrop, who just won the National Book Award in ...
This “Year of India” (3): Suketu Mehta, Bombay’s Biographer
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Suketu Mehta. (37 , 17 mb mp3)
Suketu Mehta, the master storyteller of modern Bombay, ...
This “Year of India” (2): Rana Dasgupta
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Rana Dasgupta. (45 , 21 mb mp3)
Rana Dasgupta’s India is a land of grueling ...
Whose Words These Are (17): Henri Cole
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Henri Cole. (42 , 19 mb mp3)
The poet Henri Cole got his French first name from his ...
Whose Words These Are (16): Nick Baker’s Chowder
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Nicholson Baker. (49 , 23 mb mp3)
Nicholson Baker bursts into our poetry series with a ...
Mary Karr on Girls and their Dragons
Mary Karr, the poet and ever the “scrappy little beast,” gives me three more reasons to marvel, and cherish her, in her third ...
Thomas Balmes on Documentary Democracy
Thomas Balmes is a global filmmaker from France who commits anthropology with his camera. He is coaching us here in how to make expressive ...
The Voice of Gandhi in this “Year of India”
It’s the audacity of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence, and the radical priority he gave to social justice, that Gandhi’s ...
Whose Words These Are (15): Bloom’s Hart Crane
We’re in the “living labyrinth” of Harold Bloom’s astonishing memory here.
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David Bromwich on Obama: Looking at Words Closely
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with David Bromwich (41 , 19 mb mp3).
It’s a measure of the change in the discourse ...
“The Wire” Rewired
“The Wire” was the genius series on HBO that “revealed” Baltimore today (”Bodymore, Murderland”) the ...
Ralph Nader’s Flight of Fantasy
Ralph Nader has charted a utopian fictional flight out of the dystopia he sees all around him on the ground. In conversation I’m trying ...