Books, Design and Culture
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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The Book Show recently broadcast James Gleick’s closing address to the Sydney Writers’ Festival, in which the author of The Information discusses the future of the printed book:
THE BOOK SHOW: The Future of the Book with James Gleick
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Author Jennifer Egan discusses music, Proust and, of course, her Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Visit From the Goon Squad with Eleanor Wachtel for CBC Radio’s Writers & C0mpany:
CBC RADIO WRITERS & Co. – Jennifer Egan
The paperback cover for the US edition of A Visit From the Goon Squad (pictured above), was designed by the talented Jamie Keenan.
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Inspired by Brian Christian’s new book The Most Human Human, the chaps from Radiolab examine what talking to machines can tell us about being human. The show includes an interview with Jon Ronson, author of The Pyschopath Test, about an article he wrote for GQ on talking to robots.
Brian Christian was also interviewed about The Most Human Human recently by CBC Radio’s technology and culture show Spark.
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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.
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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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Terry O’Reilly’s radio show Age of Persuasion is always a fascinating half-hour of social history regardless of whether you are interested in advertising or not.
In this recent episode, O’Reilly looks at the great women of the advertising world, including the first advertising woman ever, the woman who created the first images of wives as “Happy Homemakers”, the woman who revolutionized the retail business, and the female creative director who inspired the “I Love New York” campaign.
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WNYC’s Radiolab searches for order and balance in the world around us, and asks how symmetry shapes our existence — from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror:
RADIOLAB: Desperately Seeking Symmetry
The episode is accompanied by this lovely video by Everynone:
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