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Life’s Work
Poet Sir Andrew Motion, jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, and author Susan Choi
Season 5, Episode 21
Life’s Work
11:13
  • Music
Gustavo Dudamel: Playing Nicely
The Venezuelan-born conductor Gustavo Dudamel is on a mission to sew harmony, in the concert hall and beyond.
Season 5, Episode 20
Gustavo Dudamel: Playing Nicely
07:16
  • Literature
  • Art & Design
Nate Powell: Drawing on Experience
Graphic novelist Nate Powell is known for beautifully rendered comics with a strong moral core.
Season 5, Episode 20
Nate Powell: Drawing on Experience
07:39
  • Literature
Jonathan Safran Foer: Illuminating Everything
The best-selling author Jonathan Safran Foer writes to interrogate his own past and all of our futures.
Season 5, Episode 20
Jonathan Safran Foer: Illuminating Everything
26:46
  • Literature
  • Art & Design
  • Music
From The Top
Author Jonathan Safran Foer, graphic novelist Nate Powell, and conductor Gustavo Dudamel
Season 5, Episode 20
From The Top
06:26
  • Art & Design
Meg Saligman: The Big Picture
Meg Saligman’s large-scale murals are difficult to grasp close-up. But the stories they tell are in the details.
Season 5, Episode 19
Meg Saligman: The Big Picture
07:07
  • Literature
Elizabeth Acevedo’s Literary Realizations
As a grownup, Elizabeth Acevedo realized that the books she had needed as a child still didn’t exist. So she wrote them herself.
Season 5, Episode 19
Elizabeth Acevedo’s Literary Realizations
12:26
  • Music
  • Literature
John Darnielle: From Self-Destruction To Self-Construction
John Darnielle has excelled as a front-man, songwriter, and author by overcoming an innately self-destructive personality.
Season 5, Episode 19
John Darnielle: From Self-Destruction To Self-Construction
26:46
  • Literature
  • Art & Design
  • Music
Power Through Purpose
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle, poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo, and mural artist Meg Saligman
Season 5, Episode 19
Power Through Purpose
02:53
  • Music
Dean Friedman Performs “Don’t Mourn, Don’t Cry”
Friedman performs “Don't Mourn, Don't Cry” off his 1998 album, Songs for Grownups, at the Stotesbury Mansion.
Season 5
Dean Friedman Performs “Don’t Mourn, Don’t Cry”
04:24
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Rhiannon Giddens Performs “Brown Baby”
Giddens performs Oscar Brown, Jr.’s “Brown Baby” with Francesco Turrisi at The Greene Space.
Season 5
Rhiannon Giddens Performs “Brown Baby”
03:01
  • Music
Rhiannon Giddens Performs “I’m On My Way”
Giddens performs “I’m On My Way” with Francesco Turrisi at The Greene Space.
Season 5
Rhiannon Giddens Performs “I’m On My Way”