Paul Auster remembers the car accident that nearly killed him and his family. It’s one of a series of brushes with death from his new book, "Winter Journal." Auster also recalls dirty fights as a child, sitting next to his mother’s lifeless body as an adult, the crumbling of his first marriage and the slow breakdown of his own body over time. Paul Auster joins us to talk about aging, death and the power of the written word.
Tags / kqed
Tagged with “kqed”
(18)
-
Paul Auster’s “Winter Journal”
-
Eurozone Crisis Update: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA
European leaders hammered out a deal Friday that they hope will stave off a Eurozone collapse. But Britain is refusing to join the agreement. We discuss the deal, and how Eurozone instability affects U.S. markets.
-
David Allen: ‘Getting Things Done’: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA
Fast Company Magazine has called author and consultant David Allen ‘one of the world’s most influential thinkers’ on productivity. We talk to Allen about the best ways to organize our desks, inboxes and the information in our heads to make for a more stress-free work environment.
Tagged with gtd fast company kqed david allen
-
Daniel Pink - How half your brain can save your job
Author Dan Pink talks about the ideas in his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. He argues that the skills of the right side of the brain—skills such as creativity, empathy, contextual thinking and big picture thinking—are going to become increasingly important as a response to competition from low-wage workers overseas and our growing standard of living.
-
Daniel Pink - Drive
Daniel Pink, author of Drive, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about drive, motivation, compensation, and incentives. Pink discusses the implications of using monetary rewards as compensation in business and in education. Much of the conversation focuses on the research underlying the book, Drive, research from behavioral psychology that challenges traditional claims by economists on the power of monetary and other types of incentive. The last part of the conversation turns toward education and the role of incentives in motivating or demotivating
-
Michael Lewis on the Financial Crisis
Berkeley-based author Michael Lewis joins us to discuss his latest book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine." Lewis’ other books include "The Blind Side," "Moneyball," "Liar’s Poker" and "Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood."
-
Jared Diamond Explains Haiti’s Enduring Poverty
Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs & Steel (and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed), offers some timely thoughts on why Haiti, once a fairly prosperous country, has sunk into enduring poverty — a condition not comparatively shared by its neighbor on the same island, the Dominican Republic. According to Diamond, Haiti’s environmental conditions offer a partial explanation. But you will also find clues in the country’s language, and in the legacy of slavery that has shaped Haiti’s economic relationship with Europe and the US. This interview — quite a good one — aired this morning in San Francisco.
-
KQED Forum: Daniel Pink
For years, Daniel Pink has been investigating the intersection of science and business. His last book championed the role of creativity and ‘right-brain’ thinkers in the business world. He joins us to discuss his new book, "Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us." Pink’s previous books include "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future."
-
Taming Your Inbox from KQED’s Forum
In "The Tyranny of E-mail," author John Freeman looks at the 4,000 year sweep of the written word from early cuneiform carvings to the e-mail in your humble inbox. He argues that e-mail inhibits our ability to conduct our lives mindfully. As part of our coverage of the 40th anniversary of the Internet, we deconstruct our inboxes.
Tagged with kqed forum john freeman email
-
Naomi Klein
Progressive social critic Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," is in town to deliver the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley. She’ll focus on California, where, she says, the budget is being balanced on the backs of the poor and the constitution allows a Republican minority to block taxes and social spending. She sees the Golden State as an example of government siding with profit takers at the expense of the public good.
Tagged with kqed naomi klein
Page 1 of 2More