Apr 22 Conversation: Denis Villeneuve, Director of ‘Incendies’ By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, director of "Incendies," which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was released in theaters Friday. Continue reading
Apr 15 Conversation: Howard Jacobson By Tom LeGro British novelist Howard Jacobson was the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for "The Finkler Question." Jacobson's touring now with a novel called "The Might Walzer," which is being published for the first time in the United States. Continue reading
Apr 14 Conversation: Mike Daisey’s ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’ By Molly Finnegan Obsession, lust, a bit of espionage, a lot of laughs, and some serious questions of ethics and working conditions are all questions raised by one man, sitting at a table for an hour-and-a-half monologue titled, "The Agony and the Ecstasy… Continue reading
Apr 13 Conversation: Creed Taylor Looks Back at Influential Jazz Label, Impulse! Records By Tom LeGro A new CD collection, "First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection," celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of Impulse! Records, the influential and important jazz label. Jeffrey Brown talks to Creed Taylor, the great music producer and founder of Impulse. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch One Month After Tsunami, What Are Japan’s Biggest Needs? One Month After Dual Disasters, What Are Japan's Biggest Needs?… Continue watching
Apr 08 Conversation: Marina Abramovic By Molly Finnegan Marina Abramovic is a pioneer of performance art, capped off most recently by her retrospective last year at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 'The Artist Is Present,' which drew widespread acclaim. Continue reading
Apr 07 Iowa Writers’ Workshop Turns 75 By Tom LeGro, Mary Jo Brooks More of Jeffrey Brown's report on the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Continue reading
Apr 01 Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ By Molly Finnegan Realism and fantasy are part of "The Tiger's Wife," the new, first novel by Tea Obreht, a 25-year-old writer who was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United States at age 12. Continue reading
Mar 25 Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan By Tom LeGro According to two new reports by a leading Afghanistan watcher at the Naval Postgraduate School, "the Taliban blow us away" in getting its message out to the Afghan public by using poetry and music -- means the United States does… Continue reading
Mar 24 Watch Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan Two studies say the Taliban is defeating the U.S. in using propaganda poetry as a weapon. Continue watching