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Paul Muldoon, Friday and Sunday

In collaboration with the WPRB’s Publicity and Promotions department, News will be presenting an interview today and Sunday with poet and part-time rock star, Paul Muldoon.  Muldoon is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.  His collections include New Weather (1973), Meeting [...]

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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, on Discourse

From Discourse, Sunday April 19 at 12:00 pm EST, produced by Nikki Leon.
A conversation with filmmaker Damien Chazelle, whose debut picture, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, is being feaured in the “Discovery” category at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.  Guy and Madeline is a musical, a gritty, vérité-style jazz flick, and, at its [...]

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Tony Rothman and Sacred Mathematics

From Discourse, Sunday April 5 at 12:30 pm EST, an interview with physicist and author Tony Rothman about his latest book, Sacred Mathematics. Rothman reads from his book and examines how Japanese mathematics flourished, along with other strains of national culture, during Japan’s pre-19th century period of isolation from the west.  Produced by Nikki Leon.
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