Podcasts

His memoir "Townie" isn’t a literary coming of age story. It’s an exploration of violence and absence.

"The City of Devi," an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai.

Learn about the Right Brain Initiative, which is teaching Portland's children core curriculum through the arts.

Stephan Jost discusses how the Honolulu Museum of Art works to serve its military community.

Toward the end of his life, NEA Opera Honoree Robert Ward discussed his remarkable career in music.

In her latest book, "When Women Were Birds," naturalist Terry Tempest Williams explores the legacy of her mother’s journals.

The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine great gaming with classic poetry.

The 2010 NEA Literature Fellow talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea.

Antonio Sanchez talks about the melody of jazz drumming and his new CD, "New Life."

Lynn Hill—an Air Force veteran, author, and performer—discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of color.

A conversation with the man who launched the first outdoor jazz festival in the US--the legendary Newport Jazz Festival.

Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depression.

At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes.