Artist, designer, and author Tiffany Gholar joins us to delve into the nature of art and creative production, fashion dolls, and even game show appearances.

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay

Episode artwork: Mopsy Modes, from Mopsy, 1(1), 1948 (cropped). Public domain image by Gladys Parker, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Julie Aigner-Clark Baby Einstein

Ted Chiang Stories of Your Life and Others

David X. Cohen/Matt Groening Futurama

Kristin Kobes Du Mez Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Tiffany Gholar The Unforeseeable Future

Tiffany Gholar A Bitter Pill to Swallow

Tiffany Gholar The Doll Project

Tiffany Gholar Post-Consumerism

Tiffany Gholar Imperfect Things

Stephen King The Stand

Mario Levrero Empty Words

Mario Levrero The Luminous Novel

Judith McNaught

Daniel Myrick Eduardo Sánchez The Blair Witch Project

Anne Helen Petersen Culture Study newsletter

David Quammen Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

Elizabeth Rush Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Elizabeth Rush The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

Rebekah Weatherspoon Cowboys of California series