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Andre Bishop

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:30:23 -0400

John Lahr talks with Andre Bishop, the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theatre.

Stanley Crouch & Dana Goodyer

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:09:33 -0400

1/18/06 — Stanley Crouch is a columnist, novelist, essayist, critic, and television commentator. New York-based writer Dana Goodyear is a senior editor at The New Yorker. (Run Time: 1 hour, 40 min.)

Episode 31. Illuminations: Strada Palas

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:24:11 -0500

Saul Steinberg was an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades.

Episode 36. Illuminations: I Do, I Have, I Am

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:38:10 -0500

Saul Steinberg was an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades.

The Past, Present, and Future of Humor

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:13:30 -0500

From primate play to The New Yorker cartoons, The Daily show, and the latest Youtube mashups, Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of the New Yorker magazine, demonstrates how all humor is an act of cooperative creativity. With support from the UM Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Psychology.

Episode 33. Illuminations: Diary of Rimbauld

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:54:23 -0500

Saul Steinberg was an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades.

Junot Diaz

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:09:01 -0400

3/17/08 — Junot Diaz’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His highly-anticipated first novel, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, was greeted with rapturous reviews. His debut story collection, Drown, published eleven years prior to Oscar Wao, has since grown into a landmark of contemporary literature. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Diaz is a professor of creative writing at MIT. (Run Time: 1 hour, 2 min.)

Episode 32. Illuminations: Techniques

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:37:59 -0500

Saul Steinberg was an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades.