Podcasts

A writer and Vietnam veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried."

Discussing the process that moved her award-winning play "Inana" from page to stage.

Helping returning service members write their way home.

Capital Bop is expanding the DC’s jazz audience in unexpected places.

Clothing designer Yeohlee Teng talks about her design philosophy and her work with Making Midtown, an initiative to reinvigorate creative production in NYC’s garment district.

On the making of a great collection of American art at the Corcoran Gallery.

In Part Two of our conversation, we follow his musical path as he blends klezmer, jazz, blues, and bluegrass into a distinctive musical voice.

In the first part of of this two-episode interview, National Heritage Fellow Andy Statman talks about his early musical career, including the importance of bluegrass for a boy born in Brooklyn.

Literature Fellow Dean Bakopoulos discusses his first novel, "Please Don't Come Back from the Moon," set in a suburban working-class Detroit suburb in the mid-1990s where a strange phenomenon occurs. One by one the men disappear, leaving behind their...

You may know him as the guy who takes surreal pictures of his Weimaraners; but that's just one strand of his long and varied career.

Na'alehu Anthony discusses his documentary about traditional Polynesian open sea canoeing and its significance to the revitalization of Hawaiian culture.

Healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed.

The popular singer/songwriter on her love of poetry.

Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books.

The author of "Imagine: How Creativity Works," discusses the new science of creativity.

It's all in the family.

Poet and paywright Claudia Rankine discusses her play T"he Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue."

His life is a who's who in jazz!

NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal discusses his long and celebrated career.

Singer and NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan talks about her life in jazz.

The editor of "My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1" discusses the relationship of the two artists.

Irish Fiddler and National Heritage Fellow Liz Carroll talks about and demonstrates the multiplicity of Irish music.

The award-winning novelist talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. 

Playwright, director, actor Aditi Brennan Kapil on the ways her mixed cultural background informed her play, "Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Story."

The pianist and National Medal of Arts Recipient remembers the early years of his career.