Radio Open Source

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• Robin Kelley’s Transcendental Thelonious Monk

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Robin Kelley (51 minutes, 24 meg mp3) Robin Kelley ’s superb biography brings the Thelonious Monk story back from the ragged edge to the creative center of American music. And it brings my reading year to a blessedly loving, gorgeously swinging, dissonant, ...
  6 days ago

• Gordon Wood: Empire and Liberty, then and now

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Gordon Wood (27 minutes, mp3) Gordon Wood, the wonderfully plain-spoken Pulitzer and Bancroft prize historian at Brown, thinks that Thomas Jefferson would find Barack Obama obnoxiously, over-reachingly Hamiltonian… and that Alexander Hamilton would likewise dismiss ...
  1 week ago

• Whose Words These Are (19): Andrew Motion

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Andrew Motion. (23 minutes, 11 meg mp3) Sir Andrew Motion succeeded Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson and, immediately, Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He can sound like the elegist of rural old imperial England, but he can sting in the present tense ...
  1 week ago

• Orhan Pamuk and his Museum: This is your brain on novels…

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Orhan Pamuk. (28 minutes, 13 mb mp3) Orhan Pamuk in his six Norton Lectures at Harvard this fall filled the air with ideas about fiction. “The novel is not about the characters but about their world,” for example, part of the reason that Pamuk has never ...
  2 weeks ago

• Whose Words These Are (18): Keith Waldrop

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Keith Waldrop. (23 minutes, 11 meg mp3) Keith Waldrop , who just won the National Book Award in poetry for his Transcendental Studies , is a quilter in phrases. He eschews any intention or meaning that you could point to in his work. He makes statements here and ...
  2 weeks ago

• This “Year of India” (3): Suketu Mehta, Bombay’s Biographer

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Suketu Mehta. (37 minutes, 17 mb mp3) Suketu Mehta , the master storyteller of modern Bombay, learned by listening — to the runaway poet from Bihar, for example, who wanted him to write a book titled “Untold Stories” or “Untellable Stories,” like his own. ...
  2 weeks ago

• This “Year of India” (2): Rana Dasgupta

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Rana Dasgupta. (45 minutes, 21 mb mp3) Rana Dasgupta ’s India is a land of grueling poverty still, in a culture transfixed by glittering wealth. The dominant mood is “frenzied accumulation” in a society “consumed both by euphoria and dread.” Mahatma ...
  3 weeks ago

• Whose Words These Are (17): Henri Cole

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Henri Cole. (42 minutes, 19 mb mp3) The poet Henri Cole got his French first name from his Armenian mother. From his father, a military man, he got his Southern speech and, in what sounds like sadness and irony, “a knack for solitude.” Poetry was the place ...
  3 weeks ago

• Whose Words These Are (16): Nick Baker’s Chowder

  
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  Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Nicholson Baker. (49 minutes, 23 mb mp3) Nicholson Baker bursts into our poetry series with a passion for form, a longing for four-beat rhythms a la Kipling and rhymes of the kind that Ira Gershwin and Dr. Seuss learned from Swinburne. For a couple of months now ...
  5 weeks ago

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