Notebook on Cities and Culture

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Notebook on Cities and Culture episodes

July 23, 2008 Tom McCarthy on Tintin
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 show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
35 min
July 17, 2008 Artscience impresario David Edwards
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 show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
30 min
July 01, 2008 War Nerd Gary Brecher
A conversation about asymmetrical warfare, Red Dawn and the Hmong in Fresno with Gary Brecher, "War Nerd" columnist from The eXile. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
59 min
June 23, 2008 Literary blogger Maud Newton
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] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
32 min
June 18, 2008 Novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux
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] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
53 min
June 09, 2008 Kevin Smokler and Dave Weich
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, Oregon's Powell's Books.
1 hr 4 min
May 30, 2008 Graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd
A conversation about art school, the Milgram Experient and Andres Serrano photos as bible covers with graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd, 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.
48 min
May 23, 2008 Daniel Menaker and Odile Isralson, Titlepage
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.
59 min
May 03, 2008 Arts & Letters Daily's Denis Dutton
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.
52 min
April 25, 2008 NPR's Peter Sagal
A conversation about swinging, eating, strip clubs, lying, gambling, consumption and pornography with Peter Sagal, 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).
32 min

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(Formerly The Marketplace of Ideas.) A world-traveling interview show where Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversations with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban…