Dr. Rick Hodes arrived in Africa more than two decades ago to help the victims of a famine, but he never expected to call this extremely poor continent his home. Twenty-eight years later, he is still there. This Is a Soul tells the remarkable story of Rick Hodes\'s journey from suburban America to Mother Teresa\'s clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. http://www.thisisasoul.com.
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Borges Interview - English subtitles
This excerpt is from the autobiographical documentary Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte (1998) by German Kral, an Argentinian filmmaker.
This archival interview footage of Borges is already on YouTube, but I haven't been able to find their respective English subtitles. I suspect this segment might be appreciated by those lacking Spanish.
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Ira Glass Interviews Etgar Keret: Was He an Adult Film Star?
Ira Glass, host of public radio's "This American Life," interviews the radical Israeli write Etgar Keret... who decides that he resembles an East German adult film star.
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Philip Roth on Writing About Sex
In this segment from TheDailyBeast.com's Web series, 'The Beast Bar,' the celebrated author Philip Roth talks to Tina Brown about the art of writing about sex.
Sex plays no less a critical role in Roth's most recent book, 'The Humbling,' than in many of his other works, though theres a scene more graphic and striking than in any of his recent books.
Youre not setting out to arouse anybody, Roth tells Tina Brown in this video. You dont want to fall into clichés.
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Norman Mailer talks about plastic and violence
In a brilliant French TV documentary, Mailer holds forth on the ways in which plastic represents the changes in American society, and how the deadening of the senses leads to violence. In the process, he reflects on the infamous incident in which he stabbed his wife in the early '60s. This has been posted to illustrate a blog entry on the Media Funhouse blog, which can be found here:
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http://www.ted.com Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.
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SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart (book trailer)
Watch the hilarious trailer for Gary Shteyngart's new novel, SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY with guest star James Franco, and others!
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
In a very near future—oh, let's say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century—he totally loves books (or "printed, bound media artifacts," as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.
After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our "ancient dork" effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny's new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York's Central Park, the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He's going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect's "hotness" and "sustainability" with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.
Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
In a brilliant French TV documentary, Mailer holds forth on the ways in which plastic represents the changes in American society, and how the deadening of the senses leads to violence. In the process, he reflects on the infamous incident in which he stabbed his wife in the early '60s. This has been posted to illustrate a blog entry on the Media Funhouse blog, which can be found here:
www.mediafunhouse.blogspot.com
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