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Proust Questionnaire Podcast
by Ulrich Baer and Caroline Weber
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially when they use their drive, determination and talents to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse behind the proverbial curtain of creative people's minds. Each guest answers the same 35 questions that were first popularized as a parlor game by French novelist Marcel Proust about a hundred years ago. But these questions are timeless, and you’ll quickly find yourself thinking with our guests, rather than about their answers. Be moved, entertained, and inspired to do good yourself when you listen to our guests tell us what they love, fear, and hope for in these oral portraits of great minds.
Episodes
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Proust Questionnaire 38: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado is a poet residing in New York City who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His first collection of poems, The Life Assignment, was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. He is the executive director and president of the Academy of...
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Proust Questionnaire 37: Dame Zandra Rhodes, Fashion Designer
Dame Zandra Rhodes is an English fashion and textile designer who has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. In 2003, she founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Her signature, recognizable design...
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Proust Questionnaire 36: Haaz Sleiman, Actor
Haaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان) is a Lebanese actor who has appeared as Tarek in Tom McCarthy’s 2007 award-winning film The Visitor, for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and the role of Jesus in the American TV mini-series Killing Jesus. He’s also…
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Proust Questionnaire 35: Calvin Sun, Emergency Physician, World Traveler: Monsoon Diaries
The Proust Questionnaire hosts individuals who make a difference in various ways. Meet Calvin D. Sun, M.D., an emergency room physician who's worked at several of New York City's major hospitals all throughout Covid. He was a frequent frontline contributor to CNN and other major news programs for...
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Proust Questionnaire 34: Kasi Lemmons, Film Director
Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning director, writer, actress and professor who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades. Her acclaimed 1997 feature directorial debut, “Eve’s Bayou, was inducted into the National Film Registry, and is considered among the first to showcase the beauty…
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Proust Questionnaire 33: Cécile David-Weill, Novelist
Cécile David-Weill is a French American author who is born and based in New York. She published her first novel Crush (Grove Press, 1997) under the name of Cécile de la Baume. Her next two novels are wickedly funny comedies of manners set in glamorous French locales. The first, Femme de… ( in...
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Proust Questionnaire 32: Daniel Kehlmann, Novelist
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was...
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Proust Questionnaire 31: Maurice Samuels, Historian
Maurice Samuels is the author of several books: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France; Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France; The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews, and The Betrayal of the Duchess, a…
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Proust Questionnaire 30: Ori Gersht, Photographer
Exploding flower arrangements, meticulously staged scenes of beautiful destruction, haunted landscapes, still lives brought to their sublime end as if a host of angels unfolded their terrible wings just a bit too close.... Ori Gersht's photographs are unlike anything you've seen before. Gersht…
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Proust Questionnaire 29: Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter, Novelists
Today's we're speaking to a married couple, both esteemed novelists. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, and the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and...
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Proust Questionnaire 28: Samantha Boardman, Psychiatrist
Samantha Boardman, MD, is a psychiatrist and a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City. In her private practice as well as in her blog, www.PositivePrescription.com, and her forthcoming book, Everyday Strong,...
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Proust Questionnaire 27: Alice Wu, Filmmaker
Alice Wu's debut feature, Saving Face, is a three-generation romantic comedy set in today's Chinatown in Queens, New York. Wu won the Visionary Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival for...
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Proust Questionnaire 26: Miranda Penn Turin, Photographer
Miranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and splits her time between New York and LA - she shoots all over the world and is grateful to have the best crew…
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Proust Questionnaire 25: Jeremy Harris, Playwright
Jeremy O. Harris is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Daddy and Slave Play. He was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given by the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. A profile in the New York Times said that Harris's "ability to render subconscious trauma…
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Proust Questionnaire 24: Christine Coulson, Writer
What happens in museum when the crowds have gone? Christine Coulson's exquisite book, Metropolitan Stories, imagines the inner lives of the artworks and precious objects that tell us so much about the past, the present but also our human future, while enduring stoically the millions of museum...
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Proust Questionnaire 23: Sameh Zoabi, Filmmaker/Director
Sameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker who was born and raised in Israel. His feature film, Tel Aviv on Fire, chronicles the making of a daytime soap opera in contemporary Israel. It is a comedy-drama satire directed by Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered...
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Proust Questionnaire 22: Miriam Bridenne, Bookseller
Miriam Bridenne is the Deputy Director of Albertine Books, the French bookstore housed in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. Prior to coming to Albertine, Miriam worked in publishing for almost twenty years. She co-leads Albertine’s popular French Book Club and…
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Proust Questionnaire 21: Hugh Evans, Humanitarian
Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian, co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, a Global Poverty Project. At 14, Evans spent the night in a Manila slum. The harsh realities of his hosts’ lives motivated him to challenge the status quo of extreme poverty. He has received...
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Proust Questionnaire 20: Maira Kalman, Artist
Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. Maira has written and illustrated Eighteen children’s books, including Ooh-la-la-Max in Love, What Pete Ate, 13 WORDS, a collaboration with Lemony Snicket…
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Proust Questionnaire 19: Seph Rodney, Writer/Editor
Deeply informed, passionately committed and always invested in the truth, Seph Rodney's writings about art and culture have earned him a broad following among those who like their criticism not to soothe and tranquilize but to invigorate the mind, eyes, ears, and soul. Rodney is a staff writer…
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Proust Questionnaire 18: Anna Condo, Artist
Anna is a French director and photographer who was born in Armenia and now lives in New York City. A trained actor and film director, in 1998 she published her first book “AH Allen,” a powerful tribute to her friend and poet Allen Ginsberg. Since 2013, Anna has been focusing on flower photography...
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Proust Questionnaire 17: Etgar Keret, Writer/Filmmaker
Etgar Keret is a globally celebrated author and filmmaker who exposes the absurdity of daily life in our modern world, and through a Kafkaesque lens remind us that things ought to be better. Fly Already (2019) was rewarded with the 2019 National Jewish Book Award, and Jellyfish won in 2007 the...
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Proust Questionnaire 16: Sarah McNally, Bookseller
Sarah McNally is the founder and owner of three windows into the world of letters in New York City: the McNally bookstores, renowned not only in NYC but around the country and world for independent, well-curated, smart bookselling. We spoke with Sarah during the lockdown of New York City to find...
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Proust Questionnaire 15: Omar Victor Diop, Photographer
Omar Victor Diop is a Senegalese photographer whose historical auto-portraits, where he places himself in settings and poses previously occupied by historical figures, have been exhibited around the world. Born in Dakar in 1980, Diop developed an interest in photography and design as a means to...
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Proust Questionnaire 14: Sarah Meyohas, Artist
Sarah Meyohas is a French-American conceptual artist working across media and emerging technologies. Artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, the stock market, virtual reality, and augmented reality are materials she molds into visions of beauty, bringing the concept of value into focus. Meyohas...
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Proust Questionnaire 13: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Poet
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, writer and literary and art critic - and sports writer! - who was born and raised in New York City. He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012), Heaven (2015; a finalist for the National Book Award), and Living Weapon (2019). In addition to his...
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Proust Questionnaire 12: Maaza Mengiste, Novelist
Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-born American novelist whose two books, The Shadow King (2019) and Beneath the Lion's Gaze (2010), have been greeted with high praise and much critical acclaim. Giving resonant voice to women and men caught up in the ravages of colonialism and war but also uplifted…
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Proust Questionnaire 11: Youssef Nabil, Artist
Youssef Nabil is a photographer and filmmaker who combines the artistic and cultural traditions of his native Egypt and his adopted homes of New York City and Paris to create exquisitely conceived images. An example of this, is his last film I Saved My Belly Dancer (2015) with Salma Hayek and…
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Proust Questionnaire 10: Sophia Chang, Writer/Producer
Sophia Chang has been the manager for several musical acts that have broken boundaries and continue to define our times, including D’Angelo, the RZA of the Wu Tang Clan, and others. As a Korean-Canadian woman, being "The Baddest Bitch in the Room" is for Chang not a choice but a moral necessity....
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Proust Questionnaire 9: Robert Couturier, Architect/Interior Designer
Robert Couturier is one of the most prestigious interior designers. His name has been included in Architectural Digest’s annual list of the best decorators and architects in the world, and has become synonymous with continental and international style. He made design history in 1987 when…
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Proust Questionnaire 8: Pamela Sneed, Poet
Pamela Sneed is a poet, performance artist, and the author of several books: Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than of Slavery KONG And Other Works (Vintage Entity Press, 2009) and the chapbook, Lincoln (2014). Her poems and monologues have been anthologized in The 100 Best African American...
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Proust Questionnaire 7: Pietra Parker and Miss Cookie Doug, Drag Queens, Artists & Performers
HAPPY PRIDE!!! For this extra special pride 2020 episode we had the pleasure to speak with two New York based Brazilians Drag Queens, PIETRA PARKER & MISS COOKIE DOUG! These two influential talents answer 35 questions first popularized by Marcel Proust and share personal experiences about their...
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Proust Questionnaire 6: Ross Bleckner, Artist
Ross Bleckner is a painter who has combines gorgeous art with concrete political commitment. In the 1980s he was one of the first artists to tackle and address the AIDS crisis head-on with paintings like 'Small Count' (1980), '8,122+ As of January 1986', and 'Throbbing Heart' (1994), all...
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Proust Questionnaire 5: Susan Fales-Hill, Writer/ Producer
Susan Fales-Hill is a writer and television producer, and the showrunner and an executive producer on Lena Waithe’s new BET sitcom, Twenties. Susan began her career in television working first on The Cosby Show and then on its spin-off, A Different World, where she became one of the youngest…
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Proust Questionnaire 4: Isaac Mizrahi, Fashion Designer/Performer
Isaac Mizrahi is a fashion designer whose work has shaped America’s and the world’s sense of style everywhere. He is also a singer and writer, whose book I. M. A Memoir (2019) topped the New York Times bestseller list and whose shows draw crowds in New York. A well-known judge on 'Project…
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Proust Questionnaire 3: Anna Deavere Smith, Actor/Writer
Anna Deavere Smith is an award-winning actor, performer, writer and activist. Her project “Notes from the Field,” now an HBO special, is part of “The Pipeline Project” that is based on hundreds of interviews to shine a light on the lack of opportunities and resources for young people in poverty.…
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Proust Questionnaire 2: Paul Romer, Economist
Paul Romer has devoted his professional life to understand better and measure how human ingenuity is a major force in economic development. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018, was Chief Economist of the World Bank (2016-18), and conducts research at NYU now. The economist...
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Proust Questionnaire 1: Rosanne Cash, Singer/Songwriter
Rosanne Cash is one of America’s great singer songwriters whose art has earned her several Grammys, nominations for Country Music Awards and other honors for titles such as The River and the Thread (2014) and The List (2009). By tapping the roots of America’s soulful sonic traditions and the…
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The Proust Questionnaire Podcast: An Introduction
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse behind the proverbial curtain of creative people's minds. Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially when they use their drive, determination and talents to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse behind the proverbial curtain of creative people's minds. Each guest answers the same 35 questions that were first popularized as a parlor game by French novelist Marcel Proust about a hundred years ago. But these questions are timeless, and you’ll quickly find yourself thinking with our guests, rather than about their answers. Be moved, entertained, and inspired to do good yourself when you listen to our guests tell us what they love, fear, and hope for in these oral portraits of great minds.
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Ulrich Baer and Caroline Weber
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