Art Works Podcast

In Circe --Madeline Miller’s second novel and our newest NEA Big Read title—the goddess/witch moves from the sidelines o... Read more

He had a childhood no one could make up—with his memoir, he creates order from the chaos.

David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Jap... Read more

Bassist and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman is aptly named. The man might not have played with everyone in jazz, but... Read more

Author, physician, and National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow Daniel Mason wrote and published his firs... Read more

Documentary filmmakers Dana Nachman and Don Hardy have co-directed the award-winning film Pick of the Litter. The litter... Read more

Leatherworker and 2019 National Heritage Fellow James F. Jackson creates sculpture by carving leather. Go to his website... Read more

Twenty-five years ago, Julia Alvarez published In the Time of the Butterflies, which was chosen as a Big Read title in 2... Read more

Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.

Singer/songwriter Mel Tillis tells stories about his career and how performing helped him cope with his stutter. [29:43]

Commander and conductor of the US Air Force Band Colonel Don Schofield leads a remarkably diverse set of musicians. The ... Read more

Sculptor and three-time NEA grantee Ursula von Rydingsvard’s art is unlike anything else. While she works with all manne... Read more

Dr. Nina Kraus is a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University where she directs the Auditory Neuroscience Lab... Read more

Saxophonist, composer and 2020 NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell is a musical seeker. He’s interested in sound and its col... Read more

Storyteller Linda Goss, one of the pioneers of the Black Storytelling Movement, has just been named a 2019 NEA National ... Read more

Author Victor Lodato has written two highly acclaimed novels Matilda Savitch and Edgar and Lucy. Nearly a decade in the ... Read more

Marine Corps veteran Stephanie Kline is a DC-based stand-up comic. At loose ends after leaving the Marine Corps and then... Read more

The National Endowment for the Arts' Literary Arts Director Amy Stolls joins me for a conversation about books that can ... Read more

Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie isn’t a literary coming of age story. It’s an exploration of violence and absence. 

Pete Seeger remembers his friend, Woody Guthrie. [21:13]