This Week



COVER STORY
Authenticity
Kurt Andersen and writer Lawrence Weschler talk about authenticity and the gray areas between truth and fiction.

Is it live or is it Memorex?
How producers and acousticians play with sound, on CDs and in the concert hall. Produced by Jeff Lunden.
Go to the Kirkegaard & Associates acoustics website
Go to Anonymous 4's website


Radio Imposters
A look at an earlier age when actors posed as politicians --From Mckinley and Debs to Churchill. Produced by Andy Lanset.


Ken Light
A photojournalist observes his profession and its struggle to artfully capture reality.
Go to Ken Light's website
Go to "Texas Death Row" by Ken Light
Go to "Delta Time" by Ken Light

Playing With Gender
A Sound Portrait Of Obie Award- Winning Actress Peggy Shaw, and her one woman play, "Menopausal Gentleman."
Go to La Mama's website
Go to the New York Theatre Wire review
Go to the Salon.com essay on experiencing a Peggy Shaw show

SPECIAL GUEST
Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler is a staff writer for the New Yorker, and the author of many books including "Boggs: A Comedy of Values", "Calamity of Exiles," and "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder." He teaches courses in the fiction of non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence and Columbia University School of the Arts. His new book on the conceptual artist Robert Irwin will be published later this year.
Go to the Feed magazine article
Go to the Atlantic Monthly interview







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Commentary
Who needs satire anymore?

Design for the Real World
The Automatic Teller Machine - Product designer David Kelley looks at the interface of one of modern society's most indispensable machines.

Now Playing
In "Despair's Book of Dreams," a new play by the Texas-based poet and musician Kirk Smith, radio is redemption.
Go to site for Despair's Book of Dreams



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