Can we really “know” a place without living there, breathing its air and feeling its earth? We’ll spend this hour with an author who first introduced readers to mid-seventies Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her 2001 national bestseller “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” and revisited her roots in “Scribbling the Cat” in 2004. Alexandra Fuller is in town to speak at Arts and Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art tonight.
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Who will carry the flag for American conservatism in the future and what can we learn from the movement’s past? We’ll spend this hour with historian Richard Brookhiser who details his life-long friendship with one of conservatism’s “glittering” stars in the new book “Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement” (Basic Books, 2009).
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What is it about the crime of counterfeiting that people find so fascinating? Is it the possibility of an endless supply of money, the “victimless” nature of the crime or the fact that counterfeiting is incredibly difficult to pull off? We’ll explore the life of one such criminal this hour with journalist Jason Kersten, author of “The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter” (Gotham Books, 2009).
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How do everyday struggles relate to the bigger tragedies of life? And what are their respective roles in fiction? We’ll talk with novelist Andre Dubus, III whose new book “The Garden of Last Days” (W. W. Norton, 2009) explores the lives of such struggling characters including one who’s preparing for his role in the 9/11 attacks. We’ll visit the Dallas Museum of Art for a conversation with Irish artist Willie Doherty in tonight’s Art and Seek segment. Twice nominated for the Turner Prize, Doherty’s solo exhibition “Requisite Distance” is on view at the Dallas Museum of Art through August 30th.
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From the archives – What are your strategies for saving a buck or two these days? In April we spent an hour with Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland, who received a huge response to his series of columns on the art of haggling this spring.
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From the archives – How have the roles of American women changed in the last ten years? How about the last hundred years? We talked with renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts last month. Her #1 New York Times Bestseller “We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters” is now out in an updated 10th anniversary edition (William Morrow, 2009).
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From the archive – When you think of documentary filmmaking, whose name leaps to mind? We talked this spring with acclaimed film maker Ken Burns whose past films – “The War,” “Baseball,” “Jazz,” “The Civil War,” etc.- are among the most-watched documentaries ever made. His newest film, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” premieres this fall on PBS.
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From the archive – Can the existing urban environment be refreshed to meet the needs of a growing and changing population? In March we talked with a pioneer of the New Urbanism movement, Andr??s Duany. He visited Dallas to address the Congress for the New Urbanism’s North Texas Chapter.
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From the archive – Why do some of us hate our bodies and why is the problem spreading around the world? We spent an hour earlier this year with Susie Orbach, co-founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre in London and New York and author of the book “Bodies” (Picador Paperback Original, 2009).
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From the archive – What goes into the development of a character and how does an actor prepare to play that character? We talked in March with Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody who received the AFI Dallas International Film Festival Star Award this year.
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From the archive – How are emotions created and where does creativity come from? We talked in February with Dr. Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
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From the archive – What role should local economies play in the search for a more sustainable society? We talked with author Bill McKibben in March when he visited Dallas to participate in the EPA’s National Sustainable Communities Conference.
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