Joe Gergen, author, talks to Peter shea about his childhood. He discusses how he transformed from an introverted child to a confident writer. He studied both mathematics and English, and his full-time occupation is in analysis. Gergen discusses how he balances his passion for writing with his career. Gergen is the author of two books, and he als...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gergen, Joe
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Poet, environmentalist, and oral historian Joe Paddock grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collections Earth Tongues (1985) and Handful of Thunder: A Prairie Cycle (1983) and the essay collection Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agricultur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paddock, Joe
Created:
2014-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Johanna Kandl is an Austrian painter. Her work seeks to expose myths of religiosity, historical constructions, capitalism, to distort them to the point, as it is neatly put, that they become recognisable.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kandl, Johanna
Created:
2014-08-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Akre is an animator, videomaker and teaching artist who lives in Minneapolis. He creates public animation work with his animation station and a variety of other animation techniques, makes video documentaries, and empowers youth to create media. His films have shown at festivals around the planet.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Akre, John
Created:
2015-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Bohannon talks to Peter Shea about his work as science correspondent for the journal Science, and his organization of the Dance Your Ph. D. contest.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Jodzio‘s work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the forthcoming Knockout (Soft Skull Press, Spring 2016).
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jodzio, John
Created:
2015-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her current project, inspired by visits with her daughter to the Como conservatory. John Reimringer talks to Peter Shea about the sensibilities of his students and the screenplay of his novel Vestments. Together they talk about their past year of parenting.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2013-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her most recent book, An Alphabet Not Unlike the World, and John thinks aloud about his changing reasons for writing and motivation to undertake writing projects. Both reflect on the changes in their lives and their writing since they became parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, poet and creative non-fiction writer, and John Reimringer, novelist, are annual guests on the Bat;their interviews chart their adventures as writers and teachers -- and, now, parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2015-08-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, poet and creative non-fiction writer, and John Reimringer, novelist, are annual guests on the Bat;their interviews chart their adventures as writers and teachers -- and, now, parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2011-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
