Books, Design and Culture
Paula Fox, storied author of Desperate Characters, talks about writing and her memoir Borrowed Finery with Eleanor Wachtel in this archive interview for Writers & Company from 2002:
CBC RADIO WRITERS & COMPANY: Paula Fox Interview 2002
The cover above, from Fox’s collection of stories and essays News From the World published earlier this year by W. W. Norton, was designed by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
2 CommentsJarvis Cocker talks to Faber Publishing Director Lee Brackstone about songwriting and the publication of Mother, Brother, Lover, his first collection of lyrics:
Mother, Brother, Lover will be published by Faber in October.
(via Largehearted Boy)
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Film critic Dave Kehr discusses the cinema of the 1970’s and his book When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade with Colin Marshall for The Marketplace of Ideas podcast:
THE MARKET PLACE OF IDEAS: Dave Kehr When Movies Mattered mp3
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Illustrator Christoph Niemann talks to Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross about his illustrations for The New Yorker, Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine, and his new kids book That’s How:
I care so much about magazines and newspapers and books. This is the world that I live in as a consumer and that’s why I really care about contributing to this world. And I get a much bigger kick out of having my image seen like million times for like 20 seconds and then it ends up in the trash bin rather than having my image on somebody’s like over somebody’s sofa for 20 years.
NPR FRESH AIR: ‘That’s How’ Christoph Niemann Explains It All
The full transcript is here.
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Filmmaker J.J. Abrams talks about his new movie Super 8 and, perhaps most interestingly, his storytelling process with Terry Gross for NPR’s Fresh Air:
In a movie like “The Graduate,” Ben and Elaine had their first real date and they’re, you know, sitting at a restaurant eating in his convertible car and people are being very loud and they put the top up. And they’re having this conversation and you can’t hear it, but you’re watching it. So you get to sort of, you know, fill in the blanks and I think there is a sort of – almost a reflexive reaction that we have to fill the blanks in when there’s something of some substance and pieces are missing. You sort of fill it in.
I think there’s something about the unseen and the unknown that has real value in moments. But I do think that, you know, you can’t apply a magic box approach to everything. And if you go to see a movie or if you watch a show, you better have something of substance that you’re building to. The whole thing in itself can’t be a magic box.
NPR FRESH AIR: J.J. Abrams: The ‘Super’ Career Of A Movie-Crazed Kid
The full transcript is here.
(via The Cultural Gutter)
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Part funny, part horrifying, journalist Jon Ronson discusses his latest book The Psychopath Test with Ramona Koval for The Book Show:
THE BOOK SHOW: Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test
The cover for The Psychopath Test was designed by Matt Dorfman.
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As part of a series of interviews on WNYC about Brooke Gladstone’s new book The Influencing Machine, illustrator Josh Neufeld talks about working on the project with Brian Lehrer:
Also in this segment, Gladstone discusses science fiction and political bias in the media.
Comments closedChip Kidd, designer, writer, and art director at Knopf, talks about his childhood love of comic books with The Comics Archive:
Comments closedDesigner Wim Crouwel talks about his career, his use of the grid and the creation of the New Alphabet in this interesting 10-minute documentary for Dutch Profiles:
Dutch Profiles is a series of short documentaries about architects, graphic, product and fashion designers working in the Netherlands. The series is new to me, but past films that caught my eye include profiles of architect Rem Koolhaas, graphic designer Irma Boom, and cartoonist Joost Swarte.
(via iloveboeken)
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CBC Radio’s Nora Young interviews Ingrid Fetell, a designer, researcher, and writer, based in New York who focuses on the “aesthetics of joy” and the emotional relationships between people and things:
CBC RADIO SPARK: Ingrid Fetell, Designing for Joy
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With A.A. Knopf FINALLY publishing his novel The Snowman in the US this May, Norwegian author Jo Nesbø discusses his earlier Harry Hole novel The Redbreast with the BBC World Service Book Club:
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