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Just finished listening to a Fresh Air minicollection of interviews of Maurice Sendek:

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October 23, 2009
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are is a perennial favorite.

It won the Caldecott Medal as the "most distinguished picture book of the year" in 1964, and was adapted into an opera two decades later. (Sendak earned his stripes as a designer on the opera production, working on the sets and costumes for the premiere production.) Now, Where The Wild Things Are comes to the big screen, directed by Spike Jonze.

Sendak's other children's books include In The Night Kitchen and Inside Over There.

This broadcast includes excerpts from 1986, 1993, and 2003.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114044628

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@tsarstepan,

Good idea - I save author interviews sometimes. Lost links with my change of hard drive recently though.

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@ossobuco,

Plus saving the podcasts too take up alot of hard drive space after awhile and I like to keep my iTunes relatively tidy.

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@tsarstepan,

that's why they invented external hard rives

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@djjd62,

I knew I should save favorites on one of those link sharing sites (Delicious? forget the names right now) but I failed, yet again, to follow through.

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no interviews, but a couple of blog links

Neil Gaiman

Maggie Stiefvater

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http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/10/21/segments/142908

I read bits and pieces and chapters of the first Freakonomics book and now with the sequel coming out, the authors held a fascinating interview with WNYC's Leonard Lopate, host of the aptly titled Leonard Lopate Show.

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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner ask unexpected questions to challenge the way we think by looking at the hidden sides of things. Their new book SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, is a follow-up to their first book, Freakonomics.

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Cornell West is such an outspoken and controversial character. He holds his own during Monday's interview with Stephen Colbert.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/252737/october-26-2009/cornel-west

His interview with Tom Ashbrook during Friday afternoon's On Point With Tom Ashbrook show, is not as LOL funny as its shorter Colbert Report interview but in its longer format, West is still particularly enlightening and thought provoking.
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/10/cornel-west

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Stephen Colbert interviews physicist, Brian Cox as he promotes his book, Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?).

Brian Cox discusses relativity and describes what it's like to be named one of People Magazine's sexiest men alive. (06:05)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaR_70s8NaI/SZxIyN13CCI/AAAAAAAAAEc/pOWnFmQawQk/s400/briancox_023_2.jpg

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/253947/october-28-2009/brian-cox

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Wasn't expecting to be fascinated by this author so I played it in the background while I a2k'ed. But it's worth a listen. And I would love to read the book.

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The Leonard Lopate Show / November 04, 2009 / Wilderness in New York City

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz tells us where hidden pockets of wilderness exist within New York City. Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City’s Parks, written by Phillip Lopate, shows a collection of Meyerowitz'a photographs of the city’s parks, shorelines, and forests. The book accompanies the exhibition Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City’s Parks at the Museum of the City of New York, on view through March 21, 2010.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/11/04/segments/143708
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http://mediasearch.wnyc.org/m/27261132/wilderness-in-new-york-city-the-leonard-lopate-show-wednesday-04-november-2009.htm

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html#ref=nlint

11/11/2009

SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco
'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

By Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-30161-galleryV9-btrz.jpg

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@tsarstepan,

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sea_monsters_300dpi-262x400.jpg

Bluestockings Radical Book

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Bluestockings
Monday, December 7th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Ben Winters "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters"
With Jane Austen
Join co-author Jane Austen and Ben Winters for a reading from their best
selling book "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters." Ms. Austen will be
making her first in-store appearance since her death in 1817. Joining them in
for a panel discussion will be Athgard Claw-Fangler, a sea monster

172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington, NYC :: 212.777.6028

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