Books, Design and Culture
Ninety-Four year-old resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor and former UN speechwriter Stéphane Hessel talks to Anna Maria Tremonti about human rights and his bestselling book Time for Outrage! on CBC Radio’s The Current:
CBC RADIO THE CURRENT: Resistance Fighter Stephane Hessel
Comments closedIn this short film, New York architect Andrew Berman discusses a commission to design a beautiful writing studio in the woods in Long Island:
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Iranian cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, best known for her memoir Persepolis, talks to CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel about her life, her work and a new film adaptation of her book Chicken with Plums:
CBC Radio Ideas: Wachtel on the Arts with Marjane Satrapi
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The Economist’s international editor, Edward Lucas, discusses the work of Vasily Grossman and the BBC adaptation of his novel Life and Fate:
The Economist: The Beauty and Horror of War
The Economist reviews the BBC adaptation here.
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Music journalist Simon Reyolds talks to Michael Silverblatt about his book Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past on KCRW’s Bookworm:
Comments closedLondon-based creative agency Devilfish has created this fantastic Saul Bass-inspired animated trailer for a new BBC Radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate:
Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in the eight-hour dramatisation of the book, which will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on Radio 4. All the episodes will be available for download(!).
(via Creative Review)
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Colin Marshall talks to Professor Peter Toohey about his book Boredom: A Lively History for The Marketplace of Ideas:
The Marketplace of Idea: Boredom A Lively History by Peter Toohey
The painting on the cover of the book (shown above) is, of course, by that master ennui Edward Hopper.
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Author Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Eleanor Wachtel about writing, science fiction and short stories in this archive interview for CBC Radio show Writers & Co. from 1993:
CBC Radio Writers & Co: Ursula K. Le Guin
At the end of the interview, Le Guin reads her short story ‘Crosswords’ from the collection Searoad.
(image: Copyright © by Marian Wood Kolisch)
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A short interview with Simon Garfield author of Just My Type on NPR’s All in a Weekend:
NPR Weekend Edition: Just My Type, Simon Garfield
I love the story about a man who tried to go a day without Helvetica.
Comments closedThe latest episode of the PBS Arts series Off Book explores the Steampunk aesthetic and art movement:
It’s a little a bit disappointing that the video doesn’t feature any books. Didn’t it all start with Jules Verne and H.G. Wells?
Comments closedIn this lovely video for Crane.tv, Sylvia Whitman, manager of Shakespeare & Co. and daughter of founder George Whitman, talks about the storied Parisian store and the wonder of good independent bookshops:
(via Port Magazine)
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In this lovely animated book trailer by Matt Young for Penguin UK, author David Bellos talks about words, language and his new book Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything:
(via @alantrotter who produced the video, clever chap).
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