Kurt Andersen talks with writer Bruce Stutz about his adventures following the cycle of the season across the country. Director Wim Wenders talks about his new movie, Don’t Come Knocking. Plus, tips on what to do when the spam in your inbox starts quoting T.S. Eliot.
April Gornik, "Radiant Light"
(Courtesy of April Gornik)
Spring Songs
Birds are twittering, bees are buzzing, flowers are blooming. Kurt Andersen waxes pastoral about the music of spring, from "Peer Gynt" to Stravinsky's furious "Rite of Spring" to the teenage migration at Daytona Beach.
Chasing Spring
Spring can seem all too fleeting. Bruce Stutz wanted to soak in the season in all its glory. He headed south to where springtime was first hitting the US and chronicled the blossoming, from butterfly migrations to small-town Mardi Gras. Stutz discusses his new book Chasing Spring ...
Web Bonus: Light of Spring
Kurt Andersen asks meteorologist Adam Sobel and landscape painter April Gornik what makes spring so special. Webcast only at studio360.org.
Wim Wenders
More than 20 years ago, the German film director Wim Wenders made a big splash in America with Paris, Texas. Wenders' new film Don't Come Knocking shares a lot with Paris, Texas -- the Western geography, similar themes and another collaboration with Sam Shepard. Wenders talks about ...
Spam Poetry
We're all too familiar with junk mail that offers to enlarge body parts or reduce mortgages. Most of us delete these messages right away. Mallory Kasdan finds unexpected art in her pile of unsolicited emails.
Ibsen Forever
Once again this winter, followers of the "the father of modern drama" Henrik Ibsen flock to the rural town of Lanesboro, Minnesota, for the annual Ibsen festival. Sarah Lemanczyk wanted to know why the gloomy Norwegian playwright inspires such devotion.
Fins Come to Karachi
Samina Quraeshi grew up in a prominent family in Pakistan in the 1960s. She remembers the exact moment she decided to become a designer: when she saw the tail fins on the American ambassador's car.
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