Spark

Episodes

1. 5

   Spark: Eric Bogosian's Imagination

   In this edition of Spark, recorded at the Miami Book Fair, Eric Bogosian recounts how he recently asked if wife if they could play with crayons. He remembers how he felt the first time he read lines in a play (Shakespeare; he says it was "painful" but in a good way). He tells us how an idea for a...

   Dec 22, 2015

   26m
2. 4

   Spark: Jennine Capo Crucet's Imagination

   "Two Miami girls reminisce about their chonga days, and other sources of inspiration."

   Dec 18, 2015

   29m
3. 3

   Spark: Inside Warren Zanes' (& Tom Petty's) Imagination

   Warren Zanes first heard Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as an 11-year-old in New Hampshire. By the time Zanes was 18, he was touring and recording with his own band, The Del Fuegos. Zanes' band opened for Petty and the Heartbreakers before they broke up. Zanes went on to get a Ph.D., work with…

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   Dec 18, 2015

   27m
4. 2

   Spark: Richard Blanco's Imagination

   In this edition of Spark, the poet Richard Blanco talks about how crazy he was about Legos. He talks about getting called a "sissy" by his grandmother and why he thinks he got the same score on the math and verbal sections of the SAT. He talks about discovering poetry because of a girlfriend...

   Dec 18, 2015

   29m
5. 1

   Spark: Salman Rushdie's Imagination

   Author Salman Rushdie lived for a decade with a price on his head. His book “The Satanic Verses” prompted the Iranian Ayatollah to issue a fatwa -- a call for all Muslims to kill Rushdie.

   Dec 17, 2015

   30m