Archive for April, 2008
The "Open Source" Composer: David Amram
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with David Amram (30 minutes, 14 mb mp3)
We are hanging out at the piano here with the composer and Renaissance man David Amram, who has hung with the best — starting with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Jack Kerouac …
Douglas Blackmon: Neo-Slavery in Our Times
Slavery in the American South ended only a generation or two ago, not with the Emancipation Proclamation -- in Douglas Blackmon's re-visioning of the race story in our country.
Deal-Maker on the Spot: Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill, talking North Korea out of its nuclear program, has also to talk the Bush Administration into a deal.
Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke
Nicholson Baker, the meta-novelist, recounts his hyper-linked history, "Human Smoke," that judges World War 2 to be "the end of civilization."
Patrick Cockburn: The New War in Iraq
Patrick Cockburn's account of the Iraqi Army's flight from battle is that the US is trying to foment a civil war among the Shia majority that the Baghdad government cannot win.
Brazil’s Statesman at Large
Brazil's statesman ex-president Cardoso says: think of today's crisis and opportunity as a "post-Napoleonic moment" between disaster and renewal.
Pico Iyer: the "Transcendentalist" Dalai Lama
Pico Iyer draws on a 40-year friendship with the Dalai Lama in a meditation on globalism and the Tibet crisis in China's Olympic year.
"Armed Chair": Bill Flynn’s Seat of Empire
Artist Bill Flynn talks about the drawing project -- of an old parlor chair -- that became his personal battle (500 images over 5 years) with the war in Iraq
