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Title: Studio 360: Gervais, Lit Therapy, Textbook War

Author: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-10

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

He's the British comic who created the original version of The Office and captured hilariously the alienation of 9-to-5ers everywhere. Now he's podcasting and performing stand-up, and no matter what he touches, he makes us laugh. Gervais tells Kurt how his early failure as a pop star helped strengthen his desire to pour everything into creativity rather than material success.

Next, was Bartleby the Scrivener depressed? Did Clarissa Dalloway need lithium? Today's English lit students seem to want to medicate away the problems of classic literary characters. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky explores this phenomenon with help from NYU professor Elayne Tobin and novelist Michael Cunningham.

Then, in 1974, during the most turbulent schoolbook boycott in U.S. history, schools were bombed and buses hit with sniper fire in Kanawha County, West Virginia because local community members objected to works by authors like Eldridge Cleaver and Allen Ginsberg. Studio 360's Trey Kay looks into the literature that triggered it all.

Finally, in Miami, poets create on-demand verses for passers-by on manual typewriters. The project is called the "Poem Depot," and it's the brainchild of the Miami Poetry Collective. Produced by Alicia Zuckerman. [Broadcast Date: April 24, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Portrait of the Artist

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-10

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In this hour, Cultural critic David Shields wants to change the way we think about art. His manifesto is called Reality Hunger. He talks about it with Steve Paulson, making a case for spontaneity and artistic risk.

Next, esteemed British novelist Ian McEwan reads from his latest book, Solar, and talks about it with Jim Fleming. The story is a comic tale about a Nobel Prize winning egotist physicist and climate change.

After that, Harriet Reisen has written a biography called Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. Reisen tells Anne Strainchamps that Alcott loved to anonymously write racy thrillers and organized women's political activity decades before suffrage was won.

And finally, Patti Smith was born in South Jersey. She grew up determined to become an artist. She's just released a memoir, called Just Kids. Steve Paulson talks with her about her early days in New York, her success as a rock star and a poet, and her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. [Broadcast Date: April 21, 2010]

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Title: Studio 360: Treme, Sea Level, Iranian Rock

Author: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-10

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Following his acclaimed series, The Wire, TV writer David Simon returns to HBO with Treme, a show about New Orleanians rebuilding their lives after Hurricane Katrina. Simon and his co-creator Eric Overmyer tell Kurt that even with their close attention to detail, they know the locals will be their toughest critics.

Next, if there's one climate change scientists are sure of, it's that sea levels are rising - and coastal cities are in their way. In a new exhibit up at New York's Museum of Modern Art, teams of architects envision radical approaches to the problem. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky looks into how innovation in design can help protect coastal cities.

Then, one Treme character, New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, plays himself in the series. Ruffins is one the founders of the Rebirth Brass Band, a leading act in the citys traditional music scene. But Ruffins seems just as proud of his barbecue skills as he is of his music. Does he really cook nutria rat? Produced by Jason Rhein.

Finally, the new film, No One Knows About Persian Cats, explores the underground music scene in Iran. It's based on the lives of Negar and Ashkan, their imprisonment for playing music, and their efforts to flee Iran. Now in London, the two talk with Kurt about the film and the risks they took to play music in their home country. [Broadcast Date: April 17, 2010]

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Title: Charlie Rose: James Chanos and Stephen Green, April 12, 2010

Author: Charlie Rose

Narrator: Charlie Rose

Format: Original Recording

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-10

Publisher: Charlie Rose Show

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

First, a conversation with James Chanos, President, Kynikos Associates. Then, a conversation with Stephen Green, Group Chairman of HSBC. [Broadcast Date: April 12, 2010]

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Title: Studio 360: Creative Minds Go Green

Author: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-10

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Mouna Andraos is an artist and web designer who's been fascinated by street vendors since her childhood in Lebanon. She created a working portable generator that uses a crank and a solar cell to charge cell phones and laptops, and even run small appliances. Ada Lee Halofsky hit the New York City streets with Andraos to see the Power Cart in action.

Next, Frances Arnold is a biochemical engineer at Cal Tech working on one part of the energy crisis. In a process called "directed evolution," Arnold's team is altering the genetic codes of bacteria to evolve a strain of organisms than can digest grass and excrete biofuel.

Then, in Hesperia, California, architect Nader Khalili created a housing movement for the future. Khalili, who passed away in March 2008, prototyped his dome-shaped adobes on a commission from NASA for a lunar colony. Then he realized that his "superadobes" could take root on Earth. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky visited Cal-Earth with some friends who dream of living in giant igloos made of dirt.

Finally, the New York subway system has one of the best environmental designs of recent years: Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue terminal, one block from the Atlantic Ocean, is topped by a state-of-the-art photovoltaic glass roof. Kurt checked it out with architect Greg Kiss. [Broadcast Date: April 10, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: A Sense of Place

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-10

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In this hour, writer and ecologist Terry Tempest Williams talks with Steve Paulson about prairie dogs and their language and her trip to a village for genocide survivors in Rwanda. These are two of the landscapes featured in her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World.

Next, Martyn Stewart is one of audio engineers who went to Alaska in 2006 as part of the Arctic Soundscape Project to record the sounds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You can hear more of his work at the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Uta.

Then, several grammy-winning folk musicians have written songs based on the stories in a book called Wilderness Plots by Scott Russell Sanders. Now they've recorded an album and mounted a traveling stage show of songs and stories. Sanders talks with Anne Strainchamps and explains that his stories grow out of his on-going effort to understand the place where he lives and are based on real people and events.

After that, Jerry Apps is a rural historian and chronicler of country life. His book Old Farm is a kind of deep history of his land in Wisconsin. Apps tells Anne Strainchamps he got the land from his father, who bought it on a whim for back taxes.

Following that, Caryl Owen, TTBOOK's Technical Director, provides an essay on her efforts to restore part of her Wisconsin property to its native prairie state.

Then, Geoff Nicholson is the author of The Lost Art of Walking: the History, Science and Literature of Pedestrianism. He tells Jim Fleming about his adventures trying to take walks in Los Angeles, about some famous walkers of the past, and the secret of a great walk.

Finally, Chinese actress Gong Lee takes us for a walk through Beijing. And, Sean Bonner tells Anne Strainchamps about "Met Blogs" a worldwide network of city-focused blogs. [Broadcast Date: April 9, 2010]

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Title: Charlie Rose: Mathias Döpfner and Martha Stewart, April 6, 2010

Author: Charlie Rose

Narrator: Charlie Rose

Format: Original Recording

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-10

Publisher: Charlie Rose Show

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

A conversation with Mathias Döpfner, Chairman & CEO, Axel Springer. Then, a conversation with Martha Stewart, Founder, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. [Broadcast Date: April 6, 2010]

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Title: Studio 360: Walken, Jimmy Cliff, Female MCs

Author: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-10

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

From the pathos of The Deer Hunter to the silliness of "more cow bell" on Saturday Night Live, Christopher Walken has covered about as much ground as one actor can. He's currently on Broadway starring in A Behanding in Spokane. He tells Kurt about his return to the stage and the next role he'd like to take on: a chef on a cooking show.

Next, the self-described "grandmother of performance art" is at the center of the retrospective show Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Her new project? Sitting silently in the museum's atrium all day, everyday, for three months. Kerrie Hillman talked with Abramovic as she prepared for perhaps her most ambitious performance yet.

Then, the hip-hop world has seen a handful of superstar female MCs - but where's this decade's Missy Elliott? At the SXSW music festival in Austin last month, Studio 360's Leital Molad met some artists ready to break through the boys' club. "We're waking people up to show them we're here," says Detroit rapper Invincible.

Finally, Jimmy Cliff helped bring reggae to America in the 1970s with his film and soundtrack, The Harder They Come, and last month he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cliff tells Kurt about growing up listening to radio broadcasts from New Orleans and helping Bob Marley get his start. And he performs live in our studio. [Broadcast Date: April 2, 2010]

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Title: Charlie Rose

Subtitle: Mike Krzyzewski, Brian Ross, Borzou Daragahi and Robert Malley, April 1, 2010

Author: Charlie Rose

Narrator: Charlie Rose

Format: Original Recording

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-10

Publisher: Charlie Rose Show

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

A conversation with Mike Krzyzewski, Head Coach of Duke Basketball. Next, a conversation about the Hamas assassination in Dubai with Brian Ross, Edward Jay Epstein, Borzou Daragahi and Robert Malley. [Broadcast Date: April 1, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge

Subtitle: From Suburbia to Surreal: Writer's Lives

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-10

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Blake Bailey is the author of the new biography Cheever: A Life. He tells Steve Paulson that John Cheever wrote hundreds of short stories and kept an extensive private journal, fabricated his accent, and was primarily gay despite siring three children and remaining in a long marriage. We also hear Cheever reading from "The Swimmer" and Meryl Streep reading rom "The Enormous Radio".

Elizabeth Strout just won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Marilynne Robinson's most recent novel, Home, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her previous book, Gilead, won the Pulitzer. Both woman joined Steve Paulson before a live audience at the Wisconsin Book Festival to read from their work and talk about it. The writers discuss the appeal of small town life and their interest in religion and the question of how to live a good life.

An excerpt from the Earplay production of Donald Barthelme's "The Photographs" sets up a conversation with Tracy Daugherty, author of Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme. Jim Fleming asks Daugherty about Donald Barthelme, Senior, and the writer's passion for jazz. Then, Natalie Goldberg is the author of many books about writing including the classic Writing Down the Bones. Her latest is Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Goldgerg tells Anne Strainchamps why she loves the memoir genre.

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