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- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
04:24
- Music
Rhiannon Giddens Performs “Brown Baby”
Giddens performs Oscar Brown, Jr.’s “Brown Baby” with Francesco Turrisi at The Greene Space.
Season 5
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
26:46
- Stage & Screen
- Music
The Headliners
Screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin and musician and folk historian Rhiannon Giddens
Season 5, Episode
18
12:46
- Music
Rhiannon Giddens’ Living History
Singer, instrumentalist and folk historian Rhiannon Giddens is on a musical mission, to remind us of what we all share. Regardless of who we are or where we're from.
Season 5, Episode
18
