The local host of NPR’s All Things Considered on WNYC, journalist Jami Floyd was biracial before that term existed: “I was very very lonely as a child because I was a biracial kid…[but] there was no biracial.” A conversation about race, refugees, and a Raggedy Ann turned Raggedy Andy – not a metaphor – at … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Episode 193: Jack Kleinsinger
During his 45 years producing the concert series Highlights in Jazz, he has gotten to know many brilliant musicians. Dizzy Gillespie once came by the house and played for his cat. But is jazz, if not dead then relegated to a museum piece? The future of an art form: at BMCC-Tribeca Performing Arts Center … Continue reading »
Episode 192: Miriam Horn
Observe the world with “the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist,” urges the writer and environmental advocate Miriam Horn, citing Nabokov. She is describing not just how to see but how to be. Her other philosophical advice: live like the Ponderosa pine. Is this metaphor or pantheism? A conversation at the … Continue reading »