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In the third installment of Culture Reinvents Itself: Conversations with Greil Marcus, journalist and essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan speaks with author Greil Marcus (Music, The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Visit our site for more event information: http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/program/unnamed-caves-unknown-bards-travels-american-cultural-underground%E2%80%94john-jeremiah-sullivan

From Unnamed Caves to Unknown Bards: John Jeremiah Sullivan in Conversation with Greil Marcus

Marcel Duchamp reads his 1957 essay, "The Creative Act." Full text + background here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act (1957)

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/20/gertrude-stein-1934-radio-interview/

Rare Gertrude Stein Interview, 1934

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's <i>Design Matters</i> interview with cartoonist Chris Ware. 

Full interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/chris-ware

Related article about his incredible <i>Building Stories</i>: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/05/building-stories-chris-ware/

Chris Ware on destiny, literature, and unlived lives

New remix for Sebastien Tellier's Russian Attractions song, extract of his album 
"My God Is Blue". 
Release date: December 3rd, 2012, on Record Makers.

Sebastien Tellier - Russian Attractions -  Scratch Massive Remix

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

Excerpt from a Cornell University reading courtesy of PennSound. Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/14/adrienne-rich-on-love-loss-happiness-creativity/

Adrienne Rich reads from "Twenty-One Love Poems" (1985)

Excerpt from a 2005 discussion at the Kelly Writers House, courtesy of PennSound. Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/14/adrienne-rich-on-love-loss-happiness-creativity/

Adrienne Rich on public vs. private happiness

Read more: www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/10/massimo-vignelli-debbie-millman/

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's Design Matters interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on intellectual refinement

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/23/gertrude-stein-the-making-of-americans/

Gertrude Stein reads from The Making of Americans (winter 1934-1935)

From a BBC radio segment broadcast on April 29th, 1937. Background and transcript:http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/29/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf-speaks-1937/ 

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On Craftsmanship: The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice

Background and story: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/08/gertrude-stein-reads-a-valentine-to-sherwood-anderson/

Recording courtesy PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

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