Maira Kalman is the enigmatic artist, designer, illustrator, cartoonist and author. She’s perhaps best known for her post 9-11 New Yorker cover, “New Yorkistan”, but has also rewritten The Elements of Style in her own unique fashion.
Original AIr Date: 3/23/09
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CWDL-Maria_Kalman_New_Yorkistan.mp3]Legendary guitarist Bill Frisell is a musician who defies labels and genres. Frisell discusses the way in which his playing is a synthesis of all the music of his life, the beauty of open-ended performances, and the constant evolution of his music.
Original Air Date: 3/17/09
Prolific comic writer Patricia Marx reads from her New Yorker article “Memo From the CEO.” The article appeared in the March 2009 issue of the New Yorker in the Shouts & Murmurs section. Her television credits include “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats.” She also teaches sketch comedy at New York University.
Original Air Date: 3/16/09
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/CWDL-Patricia_Marx_Memo_From_the_CEO.mp3]Martin Indyk, long-time U.S. diplomat to the Middle East, discusses how he became involved in peacemaking diplomacy, his role in making U.S.-Middle East relations a top priority the Clinton White House, and the struggles faced when peacemaking efforts do not go as planned.
Original Air Date: 2/24/09
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Lisa Genova did the impossible: self-published her book and saw it become a best-seller. Her book, Still Alice, is the story of a middle-aged Harvard professor with early onset Alzheimer’s. Genova’s novel deals with how one maintains their identity through the terrible disease, and sheds light on the perspective of a woman dealing with an early Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Original Air Date: 1/23/09
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/CWDL-Lisa_Genova_Still_Alice.mp3]A feisty interview with the man who’s turned the qualities his childhood teachers abhorred into a remarkable career. In his most autobiographical book he talks about his evolution into a conservative icon, from childhood through Vietnam and into the world of journalism..
Original Air Date: 1/21/09
Nadine de Koenigswarter is the granddaughter of the legendary “Baroness” of jazz, Nica de Koenigswarter. “Nica” was an aristocrat member of the Rothschild family from Europe who moved to the US in the 1950’s and befriended the greats of jazz, including the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey. She got into many scrapes by treating her friends as the extraordinary artists they were and refusing to accept the racism norms of those years. Now her granddaughter tells part of her story in “Three Wishes” and reveals the wonderful candid photos her grandmother took of her famous pals.
Original Air Date: 1/5/09
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/CWDL-Nadine_de_Koenigswarter_Three_Wishes.mp3]In honor of NASA’s launch of a shuttle to go up and fix the Hubble Telescope, this Conversation With David Lewis is about living in space – sort of. David sits down with author, aerospace engineer, and Mars advocate Robert Zubrin to chat about Zubrin’s new book How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet. The book is ostensibly set in the year 2071, after Mars has been colonized, and provides both scientific and fanciful advice for living on Mars. David’s conversation with Zubrin centers, however, more on the here and now and what is being done to actually get a man on Mars.
Original Air Date: 1/4/09
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/CWDL-Robert_Zubrin_How_to_Live_on_Mars.mp3]Co-author of And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost Roger Bennett talks to host David Lewis about four generations of Jewish culture and the records that provide a soundtrack to a people’s history.
Original Air Date: 12/8/08
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A conversation in words and song about the past, present and future of gospel music with members of the Atlanta chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop. The segment explores the roots of gospel music in the West African slave trade to its evolution from plantation songs. It also discusses some of the founders of gospel music including Georgia’s own Thomas Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson. This includes in-studio performances of “Steal Away” and “Precious Lord”.
Original Air Date: 11/25/08
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