Meredith Monk reflects on her 45-year career as a performance artist. [41:35]

Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology. [27:29]

Part 2: The 2012 Jazz Master discusses his approach to music. [23:57]

Part 1: Legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette talks about his early career. [31:53]

The gifted 26-year-old pianist talks about making a career in jazz. [29:07]

Stephen Manes discusses his book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, his inside look at a full season of Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet. [24:58]

Trumpeter and flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, educator, and advocate Jimmy Owens talks about his life in jazz. [34:24]

Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. [28:47]

Keri Putnam discusses Film Forward, an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Now in its second year, the program aims to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue through film. [25:49]

Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks about his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried  and how fiction can often tell a deeper truth about war.  [29:34]