
Shahriar Mandanipour’s novel from exile, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, is the back-story of the shockingly brave green-banded resistance we watched on TV till the regime cracked down on reporting… and Michael Jackson died. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Shahriar Mandanipour (68 minutes, 31 mb mp3) CNN pictures of a botched election and [...]
Audio|Fri, 24 Jul 2009
|new bookfound at20:32, 31:35
“…cannot wait to commit themselves to literature and the same time. In new book you make kind of wonderful little joke about censorship. It's been said that censorship is the end of stories in your case …”
“…this university of beat him. Day going into their debts. The Korea us open -- nations. Them. Many any end this this -- cents. Genius. Some of them -- genius for instance in. …”
Ronald Prinn is talking about what was arguably the biggest little news story on earth so far this year. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Ronald Prinn (31 minutes, 14 mb mp3) Ronald Prinn: it’s a planet changer It came from MIT’s global climate project: which reported in effect that the warming of the planet is [...]
Audio|Fri, 17 Jul 2009
|greenhouse gasesfound at14:30, 0:54
“…Yes so. China now is surpassing. The the United States as the largest. -- of any country in the world but that population is about four times line. So there emissions from person. Four times last. So that's why they look at. Say I need to develop their economies and we -- thousand put a lot of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and doing. And somehow they have the same -- Unfortunately. You know I will be impacted by climate change and perhaps even more so than the United States. . So is this going to be concerned and there is among scientists in in China and economists and China that we know. …”
“…The first ever to fix an American limit on the emission of greenhouse gases. . That are changing the climate. The vote was is quicker seven -- for the Waxman Markey bill that embodied the Obama climate …”
There is no rescuing this economy from our debt, denial and epic implosions like General Motors and the city of Detroit. The only hope is that our unfinished season of disaster will be inundated (and the new economy floated) by a flood of invention. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Juan Enriquez. (27 [...]
Audio|Thu, 25 Jun 2009
|high techfound at5:02, 0:01
“…on the big four. Interest payments which means the military medical spending Social Security. . The only thing constantly have to find ways of really growing this economy drops. And that's the high tech that lets not bailing out Detroit that's not Chrysler Chrysler marketable USG AMP. Well the stuff coming out so compelling stuff coming …”
“…I Christopher like this is open source from the Watson institute at brown university and American conversation we call it global attitude. This was about the geography economic recovery …”
Maybe Newt Gingrich is right — that Americans are getting used to something like European Socialism in this Bush-to-Obama bankruptcy and bailout era. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Alfred Gusenbauer. (38 minutes, 17 mb mp3) Alfred Gusenbauer: desperate? serious? Alfred Gusenbauer seems to think so. Austria’s hearty 49-year-old former chancellor, who may be [...]
Audio|Tue, 23 Jun 2009
|united statesfound at36:31, 12:36
“…where the desire for change. Is so. -- also in the United States. . And -- will -- his terrorists and Iran with its intellectual outfit. Is able to address disks. Desire for change. And if you listened to his. Speech in the university of Cairo for instance addressing the Muslim world. . From who. Else. On the slope. Would you expect. -- That -- to -- scary time to mention anybody else playing his …”
“…with all due deficiencies. In those sectors you have accumulated in the United States over the years. A Republican grow. And therefore I think that. Oh blocked the US government is doing right now. Compared with …”
I make two guesses here: that Barack Obama knows almost as little about cricket as I do (which is: zero); and further (much more interesting) that the president has found in Joseph O’Neill’s cricket-in-New York novel Netherland a sort of founding text for this turnabout era, this reconciling moment we seem to have entered, this [...]
Audio|Tue, 16 Jun 2009
|high techfound at3:46, 19:58
“…to multiple draft text usual wrong. They come into it real money high tech pharmaceuticals electronics health -- there's almost half a million south Asians in New York and then. Have you visited and you come …”
“…lost. And it was a big who aren't in the papers that LeBron James -- zero congratulate. And punitive it is and after the game in the playoffs. And people were puzzled by this. And the …”
Baskin’s Thoreau: nickel first-class (1967) Is it too late to celebrate Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) with an honest, unblushing American face? Have we laid too much pavement, built too many Cheesecake Factories in too many malls, imprisoned and executed too many harmless rejects and overextended our military rule too far ever to put [...]
Audio|Wed, 10 Jun 2009
|walden pondfound at4:43, 2:03
“…probable cause for why can't read it the -- went live at Walden pond but. I think it is fertile soil for speculation what influence this hat on him was this the was this the catalyst that finally. Ignited his ideas or or sports and act does ambition since since much of what he would write about it do in his later life was already present. -- in his earlier life he'd he'd always talked about the idea of going to let alone in the woods Perry talked about. Wanting to -- by himself perhaps -- Walden pond and work on his writings it's certainly already. Begun rating is journals and had had had written. -- very deep and thoughtful …”
“…another place he might go. Adjacent to the devastation the woods at Walden pond did not burn. Through those green and budding trees he might watch the lonely charred trunks -- offer -- consolation as they …”
Sir Ken Robinson does most of the talking, over breakfast here, on the sketchy matter of “creativity” and the teaching of it. John Maeda, in the gossamer blazer and scarf, is the work in progress. Click to listen to Chris’s conversations with John Maeda and Sir Ken Robinson. (24 minutes, 11 mb mp3) Both men are [...]
Audio|Fri, 5 Jun 2009
|Ken Robinsonfound at0:58, 0:28
“…that -- They also knew that there was a personal connection here. Ken Robinson hit two or three years ago about living out your passion running like I've gone and -- my native hit it was a signal. Later said that he had to change his life and he did. Out of the MIT media lab in the engineering of technology. Into the Disney world of teaching art and innovation so this was aren't -- conversation. Last Saturday morning at the hope. Club in Providence, Rhode Island about explosiveness. And originality and art and life. Across the board. Ken Robinson John laid out over breakfast. The -- a momentous occasion. Of the -- graduation. What is the creativity guru want to say …”
“…School of Design for a year now -- to president. -- Ken Robinson as the wisecracking school reformer John way to invited to give the risky commencement speech this spring. I ask you both do …”
Jamaican wisdom: “When a black man becomes President of the USA, pigs will fly. And then what happened? Swine flu.” In Philip Womack’s dispatch from Calabash in the London Telegraph, June 2, 2009. Click to listen to Chris’s conversations with Melvin Van Peebles, Xu Xi, Robert Pinsky and Kwame Dawes. (41 minutes, 19 mb mp3) This [...]
Audio|Thu, 4 Jun 2009
|new bookfound at2:20, 17:44
“…won men -- we want and we wanted to visit got from. Sri Lanka -- You see any sink and he wouldn't take money when -- and new book ever I would not take money for me this will be paid maybe things I'd change those really. A seminal moment in …”
“…works. Films Buster Keaton. Homes Walt Whitman them Dickenson the music of Duke Ellington. . I think that project. Of making our hybrid nature. Multiple nature American culture. A model I always have in mind is our …”
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Marlon James. (50 minutes, 23 mb mp3) Poets and writers come to the Calabash literary festival in Jamaica from every corner of the world, and still the overpowering voice in the fiction readings belongs to a native son from down the road in Kingston. Marlon James, in his second [...]
Audio|Thu, 28 May 2009
|irishmanfound at11:05, 0:05
“…dole -- it is a -- She's not alone experiences bridges that irishman knows. There's certain hotel in Spanish stone she could stay here because she's a property off someone of importance. An irishman could never stay at a hotel gritty ginger I don't know. You know they'll -- whether it's just leave his work something an irishman has written off. So the directions on suffering to bigot you know they're not the slaves -- Well it it creates decreed …”
“…I'm -- like this is open source. . Watson institute -- Brown University. What we call our American embassy in the global attitudes picks up here on the south coast …”
Calabash, the Caribbean literary festival, is an outdoor church of the written word, rocking and resonating on the south coast of Jamaica with the voices of poets and writers from Hong Kong, New York, Barbados, Nigeria, London, San Diego and Boston, among other home addresses. In this first of our conversations from Treasure Beach, Pico [...]
Audio|Wed, 27 May 2009
|United Statesfound at0:47, 18:18
“…literary realm and now Barack Obama and his global sold in the White House. . -- is our model of global attitude short. Born in England at Indian parents and went to school and university in the United States and is that twenty years now and rural Japan. And a tourist visa he begins here. -- can make -- is not …”
“…of the millennium but exactly the past that we know have enough White House and my sense was that with each generation more and more kids are becoming Obama's essentially. That's. …”