Art Works Podcast

Matt Kaplan takes a scientific look at the monsters that scare us…and why we love it. 

Sacred Harp singer David Ivey both preserves the tradition and widens the circle.

Nicholson Baker may have written three exuberant sex novels, but he turns to his other passion in his latest book, Traveling Sprinkler: the extraordinary details of the ordinary.

In the second part of a two-part interview, we hear Sheila as storyteller and learn about some of the folks who lived in Sodom, North Carolina.

Singer, musician and storyteller Sheila Kay Adams talks about (and sings) songs brought over from England, Scotland, and Ireland in the mid-17th century and kept alive by the people in the mountains of North Carolina. 

In his current novel, Red Moon, Ben Percy serves up a hybrid of horror and literature to tell a story about our lives today. [35:10]

The 78th Old Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, Virginia. Where music happens on and off the stage. [32:13]

In the second of our two-part interview, talk about his latest play and his screenplay for the movie, Lincoln. 

In part 1 of a two-part interview, Tony Kushner talks about his early attraction to theater and writing Angels in America. [28:50]

Laurie Olin on the work of landscape architecture—balancing nature and cultivation. [32:45]