ABOUET: Drawing on the Universal in Africa
ABOUET: Drawing on the Universal in Africa (French version)
ABULHAB: Arabic from Left to Right with Type Designer, Saad Abulhab

ALDRICH: Life in the Big House: Alexandra Aldrich

ASHLEY: A Voice Answering a Voice — Renée Ashley

ASSONITIS: Alessio Assonitis on The Medici Archive Project

BALL: Kathryn Ball – Fire Watcher on Buck Rock Lookout

BASHMAN: Janice Gable Bashman on Writing and Collaboration

BATESON: Composing a Further Life with Cultural Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson

BATESON: Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns

Nora Bateson: What a dangerous and beautiful question.
BELBRUNO: Ed Belbruno – The Colors of the Universe: Microwaves and Art

BELLI: Giaconda Belli: The Page is My Home

BISHOP: Our Ancestors Who Art in Heaven with Jacqueline Bishop

BITA: Lili Bita Talks About Her Memoir, Sister of Darkness

BOSKOFF: How Nancy Boskoff became Executive Director of the Salt Lake City Arts Council

CLARKE: Bruno Clarke’s Intersecting, Interconnecting World

COMBS: Hazard: A Sister’s Flight From Family and a Broken Boy

COURTNEY-CLARKE: Photojournalist Margaret Courtney-Clarke on Finding Africa

COYULA: An Interview with Cuban Filmmaker Miguel Coyula
DALAI LAMA: Buddhism for the 21st Century

DANTICAT: Create Dangerously – A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat

DE BOTTON: The Art of Connection with Alain de Botton

DOVER: Singer-songwriter, Poet and Trail Cook Connie Dover

DREW: Gardens of Water, L.A. Style

EARLE: Sylvia Earle on An Extraordinary Hope Spot

Earth Observatory, NASA, 2015
ESPOSITO: The Forgotten Children of Abraham
FRANCO – For All Minds Desiring Ownership – Don Franco
FULBRIGHT: Harriet Mayor Fulbright- World Peace through Education

GAIMAN: Neil on Growing up Gaiman

GIOIA: Dana Gioia: An Acknowledged Legislator of the Word
GLANTZ: Joseph Glantz on the Sparks of Philadelphia’s Creativity

GOLDBERG: A Conversation with Natalie Goldberg about Memoir and All Things Zen

GUPTA: Sunetra Gupta – The Elements of Style
HALIFAX: Joan Halifax, Roshi – Letting Go, Letting in Light
HALL: Thinking with Muscle and Tongue: The Poetry of Donald Hall

HAWKE: Producer Ryan Hawke on Seymour Bernstein

HONEY – Dr. Margaret Honey on the Muslim Heritage in Our World

HUBBELL: The Mystery of Creativity: Art and Life of James Hubbell

IYER: Pico Iyer – Global Writer, Heart & Soul

JOHNSTON: How Lynn Johnston Became One of the World’s Most Read Comic Strip Artists
KEPHART: Beth Kephart, Author of Flow

KHWAJA: A Conversation with Pakistani Poet and Translator Waqas Khwaja

KINZER: Resetting the Future with Journalist Stephen Kinzer

KÜPÇÜ: How to Weave a Culture with Murat Küpçü

MABERRY: Jonathan Maberry’s Ghost Road Blues
To understand Jonathan Maberry’s fiction, especially Ghost Road Blues (Kensington Books), the first book in his new trilogy about a town called Pine Deep, it helps to know where he grew up. “In the Kensington section of Philadelphia during the sixties and early seventies, a poor, violent, and rough place to live,” he says, “hearing sirens was as commonplace as hearing traffic noise. I hardly ever heard birds, but I did hear the rumble of the El a block away and the occasional gunshot just to liven things up.”
by Joy E. StockeMAJOR: Judith Major – A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age

MORGAN: Sing, Live, & Love Like You Mean It

MOSS: Robert Moss on How Dreams Can Save Your Soul
MUKOMA: An Interview with the Kenyan Poet Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Tomorrow will be another day for Kenya – hopefully one with little or no violence – and another opportunity for those in power to engage in a democratic process that is fair and inclusive of the basic needs of the Kenyan people. But this is wishful thinking on my part, I know, and that of Mukoma’s since the political (mainly western) model of democracy has unquestionably failed to work in most of Africa.
OLSEN: Greg Olsen – Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Space Traveler
PADAYACHEE: From India to Africa: Deena Padayachee Talks of Apartheid and Redemption
Today I was surprised yet again
When a patient told me
That he liked the way I treated him.
Author of the poetry collection, A Voice from the Cauldron, and the short story collection, What’s Love Got to do With It, Padayachee is the only South African medical doctor to win the prestigious Olive Schreiner Prize and the Nadine Gordimer Prize.
PAMUK: Orhan Pamuk – The Melancholy Life

PAPP: Lisa Papp on The Town that Fooled the British

PEREZ – Dick Perez: Sports Artist for the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Philadelphia Phillies

PERKINS: Curator Nicholas Perkins on Why Medieval Romances Aren’t Just about Romance

PETTERSON: Per Petterson – Language Within Silence

“If you consider it,” says Petterson. “What you say has less importance in your life compared to what you think. The words you say are also outnumbered by your thoughts.” In Petterson’s hands, words become spare, gorgeous prose, casting a spell over the reader, luring us into the forest, into silence, until we hear the clear voices of his characters.
SAGAN and VOLK: Dorion Sagan and Tyler Volk on Death and Sex

SHAFAK: Elif Shafak, A Writer on the Edge of Her Culture:

SHLAIN: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain on Connectedness and the Ripple Effect

SOKMEN: Shape-Shifter: In Istanbul with Metis Publisher Muge Sokmen
SOPHIA: Interview with Rosa Sophia, Writer and Auto-Mechanic

THOMPSON: Philosopher Evan Thompson Explores Consciousness in Neuroscience

THOMPSON: The Evolution of William Irwin Thompson: Cultural Historian

TIMPANE: John Timpane on Poetry, Science and the Big Bang, Part One
TIMPANE: John Timpane on Poetry, Science, and the Big Bang, Part Two

TODD: Pamela Todd – The Blind Faith Hotel: Coming of Age on the Prairie

Pamela Todd and I have known each other for years—since she worked for me almost a decade ago, writing scripts for computer-based training programs about employee benefits. What she does today is a far cry from our days together in corporate America. Although she still writes copy, this time for a Web design firm outside of Chicago (close to where she lives with her husband, a rotation of four children [two in college and summer residents only], and her Golden Retriever Benton), she is also a successful author and novelist two times over.
by Jill Sherer MurrayTODD: Poet J. C. Todd – The Quiet Maverick

VACHARAT and GEISLER: The Creators and Creation of HOOT Review

VON MOLTKE and SIMMS: Part 2 – The Web and Community
VON MOLTKE and SIMMS: Why Independent Bookstores Matter, Part 1

WARD: Peter Ward on Global Warming and the Rock and Fossil Record, Part One

WARD: Peter Ward on Global Warming and the Rock and Fossil Record, Part Two

WELLES: In My Father’s Shadow – A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles
WILSON: Kevin Wilson: Debut Novel – The Family Fang

WOLFMAN: A Comics Titan, Marv Wolfman

WRR: Every River Tells a Story
ZALLER: Historian Robert Zaller Talking of Troubadours and Poetry

ZAMBATHA-PAGOULATOU: Traveling to the Light with Phaedra Zambatha-Pagoulatou
