Author New York’s “Subway Therapist” and his collage of a city’s hopes and fears As the scribbled sticky notes come out in book form, Levee talks about spending his days collecting tiny fingerprints of commuters' psyches October 5, 2017 “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.” —Tennessee Williams, "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" October 4, 2017 Ellen Barry and “How to Get Away with Murder in Small-Town India” The New York Times foreign correspondent talks about her sensational last story from India, in which she uses first person to unparalleled effect October 3, 2017 “Something in the world links faces and leaves and rivers and woods and wind together and makes them a string of medallions with all our faces on them, worn forever round our necks, kin.” —William Goyen, "House of Breath," 1950 September 27, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Texas journalist Krys Boyd and the art of the radio interview The longtime host of "Think" talks about preparing for her daily show, and how radio is a form of oral storytelling -- "I think it’s stronger than ever" September 26, 2017 Notable Narrative: The Cincinnati Enquirer’s stunning “Seven Days of Heroin” A writer and editor talk about wrangling 60 staffers and a deluge of copy -- and creating a riveting portrait of the human face of the opioid epidemic September 25, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Photographer Lindsay Rickert and “Drive-In America” She spent 65 days on the road, covering 12,000 miles, in search of this fast-disappearing artifact of the country's past -- and its summer memories September 21, 2017 “I know all about reporters, Walter. A lot of daffy buttinskis running around without a nickel in their pockets and for what? So a million hired girls and motormen’s wives’ll know what’s going on.” —Hildy Johnson to Walter Burns, "His Girl Friday" September 20, 2017 Documentary film as “home movie”: Going beyond a public face to reveal a private one Two films at the Camden International Film Festival in midcoast Maine explore universal truths through the intimacy of family -- with love, and with shame September 19, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Abbie Gascho Landis and the surprising climate book “Immersion” The writer (and vet) talks about squeezing story from science, and how a book about mussels is also about our tender, tenacious humanity. September 14, 2017 Previous 1 … 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 … 240 Next
