“I had been warned Nina Simone did not enjoy talking to white people,” Lilian Terry told us. Hear how she landed the interview.
Archives for November 2015
Of Mustaches & Men: Lessons from the Kurt Vonnegut Library
Kurt Vonnegut’s legacy is celebrated daily in a small but mighty museum in Indianapolis. We went inside.
Hey Man, That’s My Song!
Sometimes musical artists don’t like where their songs get played — whether it’s in a commercial or at a presidential hopeful’s campaign rally. Here are 7 cases of controversial song use, starting with our main man Tom Waits…
Kurt Vonnegut Production Notes
Kurt Vonnegut walks into a classroom at NYU in 1970. It’s on tape. This is what we did with it.
Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys *
“Nothing means anything — except the artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole, though no such holes exist.” – Kurt Vonnegut in 1970 Kurt Vonnegut walked into a class room at NYU in November 1970. He was a guest speaker that day. He’d prepared some handwritten notes on what he […]