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Stream any past show with the above media player Recent shows Left-click the [download] link to play in browser; right-click or control+click it to save to disk. 08.08.12. A conversation about one man, one son, and one D.I.Y. film school with novelist and former CBC film critic David Gilmour, author of The Film Club: A Memoir. [download] 08.07.22. A conversation about art, criticism, literature, philosophy, and a certain Belgian boy reporter with novelist Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and Tintin and the Secret of Literature. [download] 08.07.15. A conversation about science, aesthetics and the crossing of disciplinary boundaries with David Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard, author of Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation, and founder of Le Laboratoire. [download] 08.07.01. A conversation about asymmetrical warfare, Red Dawn and the Hmong in Fresno with Gary Brecher, "War Nerd" columnist from The eXile. [download] 08.06.20. A conversation about the rise of cultural blogs, using one's own life as novel source material and the genius of Rupert Thomson with literary blogger Maud Newton, founder of MaudNewton.com. [download] 08.06.13. A conversation about the encyclopedic novel, female creativity and Rush Limbaugh with novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux, author of Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual. [download] 08.06.06. Part two of our special series on the future of books and reading: conversations with writer, thinker, entrepreneur and maker of mischief Kevin Smokler [site] and Dave Weich, director of marketing and development at Portland's Powell's Books. [download] 08.05.30. A conversation about art school, the Milgram Experiment and Andres Serrano photos as bible covers with graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd [site], the man responsible for countless bestselling (and some not-quite-bestselling) book jackets. His new novel is The Learners: The Book After The Cheese Monkeys. [download] 08.05.23. Part one of a special Marketplace of Ideas series on the future of books and reading: conversations with Daniel Menaker and Odile Isralson, host and executive producer of Titlepage, the first book-themed internet TV show. [download] 08.05.02. A conversation about the climate change debate, the evolutionary psychology of art and bad academic writing with Denis Dutton [site], founder of Arts & Letters Daily and editor of Philosophy and Literature. [download] 08.04.25. A conversation about swinging, eating, strip clubs, lying, gambling, consumption and pornography with Peter Sagal [site], host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me and author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them). [download] 08.04.18. A conversation about personality, innovation and openness in cities and "mega-regions" with urban theorist Richard Florida [site], author of The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City? [download] 08.04.04. A conversation about experimental philosophy with Kwame Anthony Appiah [site], Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and author of Experiments in Ethics. [download] 08.03.27. A conversation about life in film and literature in Japan and America with translator, filmmaker and Japan expert John Nathan, author of Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere. [download part one] [download part two] 08.03.21. A conversation about the art of engineering, the value of jokes and the nuisance of spam with Steve Wozniak [site], co-founder of Apple Computer and author of iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It. [download] 08.03.14. A conversation about speed-dating, the advantages of city life and the fun economists are having with "Undercover Economist" Tim Harford [site], author of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World. [download] 08.03.07. A conversation about Generation X, penciling techniques and libertarianism with Peter Bagge [site], creator of Hate and Apocalypse Nerd. [download] 08.02.29. A conversation about Texan cotton-growing, Chinese manufacturing and African entrepreneurship with Pietra Rivoli, Georgetown business professor and author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. [download] 08.02.22. A conversation about education, urbanism and Abbas Kiarostami with essayist, novelist, poet and film writer Phillip Lopate [site]. [download] 08.02.15. A conversation with Gail Pool [site], author of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America. [download] 08.02.08. A conversation about economics, evolutionary biology and Ayn Rand with Michael Shermer [site], publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. [download] 08.02.01. A conversation about the interplay between early modern science and poetry with Angus Fletcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate School and author of Time, Space and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare. [download] 08.01.25. A conversation about the unification of history and prehistory with Daniel Lord Smail, professor of history at Harvard and author of On Deep History and the Brain. [download] 08.01.18. A conversation about using incentives, eating ethnic food and becoming a cultural billionaire with Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution. [download] 08.01.12. A conversation about publishing, book criticism and LA literary culture with David L. Ulin, editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review. [download] 08.01.05. A conversation about literature, the human brain and umami with Jonah Lehrer, editor-at-large at Seed magazine and author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. [download] 07.12.29. A conversation about college towns, the importance of story and MFA programs with novelist Joshua Henkin [site], author of Matrimony. [download] 07.12.22. A conversation about online journalism, travel writing and H.L. Mencken with Jason Wilson, editor of The Smart Set from Drexel University and The Best American Travel Writing series. [download] 07.12.15. A conversation about consciousness, free will and toilet training with David P. Barash, professor of psychology at the University of Washington and author of Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars and Other Realities of Evolution. [download] 07.12.08. A conversation about the revolution in decisionmaking brought about by large-scale quantitative analysis with Yale law professor and economist Ian Ayres, author of Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart. [download] 07.12.08. A conversation about voting one way and living in a place that votes another with David Starkey, poet, playwright, professor of English at Santa Barbara City College and editor of Living Blue in the Red States. [download] 07.12.01. A conversation about Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind on the 20th anniversary of its publication with Roger Kimball, editor of The New Criterion. [download] 07.11.24. A conversation about Barry Goldwater with his granddaughter CC Goldwater, producer and narrator of a new documentary about the man, Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater. [download] 07.11.17. A conversation about ridiculous military hardware and highly un-epic science fiction with Zack Parsons, editor at humor site Something Awful and author of My Tank is Fight!: Deranged Inventions of World War II. [download] 07.11.17. A conversation about the 1960s with Cathy Wilkerson, former member of Students for a Democratic Society and Weatherman, whose new book is Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman. [download] 07.11.10. A conversation about the very definition of a powerful idea with Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at UCLA and former president of the American Historical Association. Her latest book is Inventing Human Rights: A History. [download] 07.11.03. A conversation about food writing, Lost Girls and the disappointing DVD of David Lynch's Lost Highway with Jessa Crispin, founder and editor of Chicago-based literary webzine and blog Bookslut. [download] 07.10.27. A conversation about that most revered of all beverages and the devices that close our bottles of it with George M. Taber, wine journalist and former business editor of Time magazine. His new book is To Cork or Not to Cork: The Billion-Dollar Battle for the Bottle. [download] 07.10.20. A conversation about optimism, eternal studenthood and funny conservatives with entrepreneur and author Ben Casnocha [site]. His most recent book is My Start-Up Life. [download] 07.10.13. A conversation about hybridizing genres, using future technology and reading Dwell magazine with Josh Conviser [site], author of Echelon and its sequel, Empyre, to be released October 30th. [download] 07.10.13. A conversation about book criticism, the Los Angeles literary scene and Michiko Kakutani with Mark Sarvas, author of weblog The Elegant Variation. Harry, Revised, his first novel, hits shelves in May 2008. [download] |