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09/14/2012

Time and Space and Philip Glass: The Iconic Artist Talks at BAM

In 1976, the New York premiere of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach” captivated audiences, polarized critics and put both artists on the map of contemporary performance art. In four-and-a half hours, its famously reductive score, enigmatic text and limpid, tensile choreography (by Lucinda Childs) teases out the meaning of the time/space continuum.

1h 8m
09/13/2012

Unhappy Family: Geoffrey Rush and Fred Schepisi Discuss "The Eye of the Storm" at the 92nd Street Y

Geoffrey Rush is one of Australia’s most celebrated exports, a protean character actor whose roles have ranged from the mentally frail pianist David Helfgott (his Oscar-winning performance in “Shine”) to George VI’s speech therapist Lionel Logue (“The King’s Speech”) to the Marquis de Sade (“Quills”).

14 min
09/05/2012

Wanting What You Can't Have: Happy Ending at Joe's Pub

Host and curator Amanda Stern concluded this season’s Happy Ending Music & Reading series at Joe’s Pub on July 11 with an evening themed around “communication.”

33 min
06/12/2012

Fighting Words: Churchill's Granddaughter Offers a Model for Leadership

“If you are going to go through hell, keep going.” This is just one of the many robust adages coined by Sir Winston Churchill during World War II. A new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum called “Churchill: The Power of Words,” which showcased his long, celebrated career as a statesman, writer, and orator, opened on Friday.

41 min
05/29/2012

A Reporter's Perspective on War at PEN World Voices

The PEN America Center’s organizational focus is the effect of world events on the safety and freedom of expression of writers, so the topic of war naturally looms large in its cultural consciousness. As part of the recent PEN World Voices Festival, Polish journalist and author Wojciech Jagielski was interviewed by Joel Whitney, a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics.

1h 2m
05/23/2012

Rushdie Talk on Censorship Wraps Up PEN Festival

The 2012 PEN World Voices Festival ended with a talk about censorship at the Cooper Union by novelist Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses). After the speech, the PEN festival founder had a conversation with writer Gary Shteyngart (The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Super Sad True Love Story).

23 min
05/16/2012

Getting Your Irish On at the PEN World Voices Festival

Comparisons are invidious, but Hugo Hamilton is clearly a successor to the late Frank McCourt, author of the celebrated “Angela’s Ashes,” in the tradition of Irish memoir. Hamilton read from his book, “The Speckled People,” as part of the PEN World Voices Festival on May 3. The event was held at Ireland House, a handsome mews building off Washington Square Park that is home to NYU’s Irish studies department. Hamilton was introduced by John Waters, head of the university’s Irish literature program.

18 min
05/15/2012

Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules at PEN

Earlier in May, Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief for the Slate group, and author Jennifer Egan discussed Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, genre-busting novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, and her writing process at The New School. Their conversation was part of the annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.

51 min

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09/16/2010

griepent

LOVE this series of lectures, panels and readings. The "Myths of American Slavery" speech by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to the NY Historical Society was especially memorable. Now, after an upgrade to iPhone 4, more than half of my attempted downloads of this podcast failed, with the prompt "This podcast will not play on your phone." Can this be fixed, WNYC? I'd hate to lose this, strangely, barely-heard-of, barely-marketed show/podcast that I only stumbled upon by luck. Where is this podcast in services like Stitcher or TuneIn Radio?? Please, Talk to Me (more) and keep this gem as widely available as possible.
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05/12/2009

AnnikaWrites

Sharp, relaxed and stimulating dialogue of a quality you would expect from New York Public Radio. The first Talk to me Podcast I listened to was Daniel Libeskind and I was hooked. A podcast I can work while listening too and be mindfully engaged.