More from Jenny Attiyeh
ThoughtCast: The Impact of the Written Word
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
This new ThoughtCast series explores the impact of the written word. It examines a specific piece of writing — be it a poem, play, novel, short story, work of non-fiction or ...
Tom Perrotta on Flannery O'Connor -- a literary affinity
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascinates, irritates and ...
Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
When Helen Vendler was only 13, the future poetry critic and Harvard professor memorized several of Emily Dickinson’s more famous poems. They’ve stayed with her over the ...
Faculty Insight - a partnership with Harvard Extension School - on ThoughtCast!
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
This ThoughtCast hour introduces Faculty Insight, a partnership with Harvard Extension School, in addition to a series of interviews on endangered wildlife. Meet a threatened ...
From Thoreau's rural journal to the future of farming - on ThoughtCast!
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!) on ThoughtCast!
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on another poet, King David of the Bible - and of the Psalms - in his "L...
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."
The Peabody Sisters: an interview with biographer Megan Marshall on ThoughtCast
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century.
Natalie Goldberg - on ThoughtCast!
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil scholar Richard Thomas, the ...
The Future of Farming in Vermont -- with slideshow!
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From: Jenny Attiyeh
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...
Related Pieces
Piece Description
This ThoughtCast hour discusses the philosophical and psychological origins of the economic crisis with the esteemed MIT professor James Poterba. Then ThoughtCast switches gears, for an in-depth interview with one of the last remaining old-school literary editors of our time, Robert Silvers. He is the longtime editor of The New York Review of Books, perhaps the pre-eminent intellectual publication in America, and on the occasion of the paper's 45th Anniversary, Jenny Attiyeh spoke with him in a studio at WNYC. So the audio's damned good!
To learn more about the Poterba interview, please click here.
And for the NY Review of Books segment, here.
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Broadcast History
The New York Review of Books segment has been broadcast on WCAI/WNAN.
Timing and Cues
Note - this piece is actually 55 minutes long, not 54:52, despite what PRX says...
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