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Background, transcript, and related reading: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/angela-duckworth-grit-success/

Excerpt from NPR's TED Radio Hour: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2014-03-21

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Angela Duckworth on grit and success

Part of a Brain Pickings collaboration with the 92Y and artist Ohara Hale – see illustrated interpretations of the poems here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/28/denise-levertov-92y-ohara-hale

Recorded live at the https://soundcloud.com/92y

Audio exclusively available courtesy of the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center and the Denise Levertov estate. 

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Denise Levertov reads "Love Song" (1963)

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

Rare Gertrude Stein Interview, 1934

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 defines "junk"

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/ 

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

Excerpt from Design Matters with Debbie Millman: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/roberto-de-vicq

Background and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/25/roberto-de-vicq-de-cumptich-design-matters-debbie-millman/

Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich on the story behind Bembo's Zoo

T.S. Eliot reads from his celebrated classic, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/06/04/t-s-eliot-reads-t-s-eliot-the-ad-dressing-of-cats-1947/

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