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Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing, Life & Creativity

Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing · Creative Process Original Series

Books & Writing episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work &

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00:38:57

DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer with Hoa Xuande,...

Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists,... ·

2024/04/15

What are the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions in times of war? How can the arts convey complexity and foster understanding?Don McKellaris a highly accomplished writer, director, and actor. He has written films includingRoadkill,Highway 61, Dance Me Outside, The Red Violin, andBlindness. He won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival for his directorial debut,Last Night,which he also wrote and starred in. He is an eight-time Genie Award nominee and a two-time

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00:09:44

There’s another side to every war. Satire, War &...

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2024/04/15

"I think the reason for success of the novelThe Sympathizerwas the very unique voice in the book. It's told in first person with this kind of raconteur who's very intelligent. It's satiric. It tackles big issues, and it's very lively and fun at the same time. It's quite and it's also complicated where it's coming from. It's a confession. It's written in theory under duress. It's very hard to replicate because it's sort of very freewheeling, and we didn't want to weigh the show down with just a lot

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00:11:07

Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families...

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2024/04/12

"You can't choose your family. You know, I hear that all the time. I'm always amazed when I see families that stick together and wind up being friends at the second, third, fourth decades of their lives. I didn't grow up with that. I didn't see that. I've only seen it as an adult, and it's remarkable when I see it. So I think viewers will relate to this nature versus nurture versus DNA, raising all the questions of psychological and biological inheritance.""Philipp Meyer wrote a very, very beautiful

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00:39:11

Exploring American Rust: Broken Justice w/ DAN...

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2024/04/12

What role do the families we’re born into or the traumas we experience shape the people we become? Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How can the arts increase our capacity for empathy, understanding, and kindness?Dan Futterman is creator, executive producer, and writer of Amazon Prime'sAmerican Rust,the acclaimed crime drama starring Jeff Daniels, Maura Tierney, and David Alvarez. Previously, Dan has written screenplays forCapote, Foxcatcher, In Treatment,andGracepoint. He served as executive producer

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00:12:29

How has travel contributed to the ecological...

Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists,... ·

2024/04/02

“The idea of a kind of inert world that is simply there for our pleasure, enjoyment, and exploitation has proved to be catastrophically mistaken because we see it with flooding, we see it with forest fires. We see it with acidification of the oceans. We see it with the continuing rise in temperatures that the world itself, the more-than-human world is fighting back. It has taken on its own agency. And therefore, the idea of a pyramid, a hierarchy, is no longer operative.”Michael Cronin is an Irish

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00:59:42

Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene...

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2024/04/02

How has tourism and writing about travel contributed to the ecological degradation of the planet?How does language influence perception and our relationship to the more-than-human world?Michael Cronin is an Irish academic specialist in culture, travel literature, translation studies, and the Irish language. He has taught in universities in France and Ireland and has held visiting research fellowships to universities in Canada, Belgium, Peru, France, and Egypt. He's a fellow of Trinity College

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00:12:27

How to Live a Good a Life - Stoic Wisdom & the...

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2024/03/26

"That idea of planting seeds for future generations came from theTusculan Disputations. There’s something especially empowering about Cicero. And it's very striking that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and so many in the Founding Era viewed this manual about overcoming grief as the definition for achieving happiness. And I think it's because it's a philosophy of self-mastery, self-improvement, and self-empowerment.I was moved to organize the book according to 12 virtues by noting the incredible

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00:42:38

The Pursuit of Happiness - JEFFREY ROSEN - President...

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2024/03/26

What is the true meaning ofthe pursuit of happiness? What can we learn from the Founding Fathers about achieving harmony, balance, tranquility, self-mastery, and pursuing the public good?Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor atThe Atlantic. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford

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00:14:51

What can turtles teach us about time, patience &...

Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists,... ·

2024/03/21

"The other big hard problem in philosophy is time. And I felt, you know, who better to lead me in this exploration than turtles, who live in some cases for centuries, who've been around...they arose with dinosaurs, yet they survived the asteroid impact. They are the embodiment of patience and wisdom. It's wonderful having an animal recognize you and be interested in you really acknowledges the animal in me. And that's the oldest, most sacred part of me, as far as I'm concerned."Author Sy Montgomery

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00:39:39

Of Time and Turtles - Author SY MONTGOMERY &...

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2024/03/21

What can turtles teach us about time, patience, and wisdom? What can we learn about the mysteries of consciousness by observing animals? How can we open our senses and embrace the interconnectedness of all life on Earth?Author Sy Montgomery and illustrator Matt Patterson are naturalists, adventurers, and creative collaborators. Montgomery has published over thirty acclaimed nonfiction books for adults and children and received numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Humane

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00:13:03

The Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS...

Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists,... ·

2024/03/19

"All creative writing is that act of reaching for the pieces to put it back together again. And with the memoir, the essay, it's human memory. Your memory for your own existence. With fiction, it’s a dream world where you're reaching for the shards. And I find it's so moving because that's what it feels like when I feel that I might be writing well. It's just uncovering and uncovering.Writing is a free fall into the writer's psyche, and if you want some clarity on what you believe, just write

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00:55:21

Exploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE...

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2024/03/19

What can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a

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00:11:26

Revolutionizing Sustainability: BERTRAND PICCARD's...

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2024/03/14

"In a lot of regions of the world, ecology has started to be a hostage of political parties. You have the left wing, which takes ecology as its flagship. You have the right wing, which is fighting against ecology because they want to fight against the left wing, and they use all the arguments of ecology to destroy ecology. It's very strange that the people who want to protect the environment are not able to make their cause much more appealing. This is what I try to do with the new narrative of the

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00:55:23

Beyond the Horizon: Pioneering Green Aviation with...

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2024/03/14

What is the future of green aviation? How do we share environmental solutions to unite people and change the climate narrative from sacrifice and fear to enthusiasm and hope?Bertrand Piccard is a notable Swiss environmentalist, explorer, author, and psychiatrist. His ventures include being the first to travel around the world in a non-stop balloon flight and years later in a solar-powered airplane. He is regarded as a pioneer in clean technology. Piccard is also the founder of the Solar Impulse

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00:14:07

Who were the Neanderthals? - Highlights - DR. LUDOVIC...

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2024/03/12

“This book is not just about Neanderthals. It's a book about us. I wanted to warn humans, to say there is something in us that is so efficient and dangerous. We've effectively collapsed many things and are now inducing the collapse of natural environments on the planet. And after that, we might even cause the collapse of ourselves as Homo sapiens.”Ludovic Slimak is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toulouse in France and Director of the Grotte Mandrin research project. His work focuses on

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00:56:51

Will human efficiency destroy the planet and us? -...

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2024/03/12

Who were the Neanderthals? And what can our discoveries about them teach us about intelligence, our extractivist relationship to the planet, and what it means to be human?Ludovic Slimak is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toulouse in France and Director of the Grotte Mandrin research project. His work focuses on the last Neanderthal societies, and he is the author of several hundred scientific studies on these populations. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, the New York

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00:11:53

What does it mean to have an ecological mind? -...

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2024/03/08

"The humanities are all about representing the world, while the sciences are all aboutknowingthe world. But I believe the roles are deeply intertwined, and that literature, the humanities, philosophy, history, and the arts are all ways of knowing the world. They do exactly the same thing in our understanding of the world. And it is really important to try to put these things together to bring people closer in talking to each other."Paola Spinozzi is Professor of English Literature at the University

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00:41:36

Literature, Humanities & Sustainability: PAOLA...

Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists,... ·

2024/03/08

How can we create positive change? What does it mean to have an ecological mind? How can interdisciplinary collaborations help us move beyond educational silos and create sustainable futures?Paola Spinozzi is Professor of English Literature at the University of Ferrara and currently serves as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Internationalisation. She is the coordinator of the PhD Programme in Environmental Sustainability and Wellbeing and the co-coordinator of Routes towards Sustainability. Her research

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00:37:43

Seeing the Life of Jesus through the eyes of his...

Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists,... ·

2024/03/05

How would the life of Jesus be told through the eyes of his mother? How can literature help us understand history and the nature of identity? Maciej Hen was born in 1955 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Cinematography Department at the Film School in Łódź. For years he has been trying his hand at diverse activities, from music to all fields of journalism and television lighting design.As a prose writer, Hen has published four novels so far: Według niej (2004, DUE; the English translation, According

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