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Books & Writing episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of the Pulitzer, Academy Award, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, Booker, Nobel Prize, and other honors. Leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests include: Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Ada Limón, George Pelecanos, George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jericho Brown, Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Siri Hustvedt, Jeffrey Sachs, Jeffrey Rosen (National Constitution Center), Tom Perrotta, Ana Castillo, David Tomas Martinez, Rebecca Walker, Isabel Allende, Ian Buruma, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, John d’Agata, Rick Moody, Paul Auster, Robert Olen Butler, Yiyun Li, Rob Nixon, Tobias Wolff, Yann Martel, Junot Díaz, Edna O’Brien, Eimear McBride, Jung Chang, Jane Smiley, Marge Piercy, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sara Paretsky, Carmen Maria Machado, Neil Patrick Harris, Etgar Keret, Hala Alyan, E.J. Koh, Lan Samantha Chang (Iowa Writers Workshop), Alice Fulton, Alice Notley, Emma Walton Hamilton, Krys Lee, Richard Wolff, Carl Safina, Suzanne Simard, among others.

The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition.
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Episode Date
How to Protect Bookstores and Why - Highlights - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
May 15, 2024
What Lies Ahead for Bookstores in the Age of Generative AI? - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
May 15, 2024
Remembering PAUL AUSTER - Writer, Director (1947-2024)
May 01, 2024
Feminism, Resistance & the Global South - Highlights - INTAN PARAMADITHA
Apr 25, 2024
Travel, Literature & Identity with INTAN PARAMADITHA - Author of The Wandering
Apr 25, 2024
Voices of the Earth: Reflections on Nature, Humanity & Climate Change
Apr 23, 2024
There’s another side to every war. Satire, War & Hollywood - Co-creator DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer
Apr 16, 2024
DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer with Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Park Chan-wook
Apr 15, 2024
Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families shape who we become?- Highlights - DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP
Apr 12, 2024
Exploring American Rust: Broken Justice w/ DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP - Award-winning Screenwriters/EPs
Apr 12, 2024
The Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights
Mar 19, 2024
Exploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS III
Mar 19, 2024
What does the future hold for our late-stage capitalist society with mega-corps controlling everything? - Highlights - KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI
Feb 27, 2024
Comics, Music, Ethics & AI: KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI on the Making of Moon Man
Feb 27, 2024
Reshaping Our World: Climate Change, Education, Mental Health & Advocacy for Nature
Feb 26, 2024
Songs of Nature - Musicians, Writers, Ecologists, Philosophers on the Mysteries of the Natural World
Feb 25, 2024
What are we willing to give up to find meaning & a sense of belonging? - TARA ISABELLA BURTON
Feb 23, 2024
Spirituality & Selfhood: TARA ISABELLA BURTON - Author of Here in Avalon, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
Feb 23, 2024
How does knowing a second language increase your creativity & humanity? - Highlights - ALAN POUL
Feb 15, 2024
ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director - Tokyo Vice - Six Feet Under - Tales of the City - My So-Called Life
Feb 15, 2024
Forty Years in Hollywood - Highlights - ED ZWICK
Feb 09, 2024
ED ZWICK - Academy Award-winning Writer, Director & Producer - Glory, The Last Samurai, Shakespeare in Love, Thirtysomething
Feb 09, 2024
From Ancient Wisdom to the Language of the Earth
Jan 25, 2024
Highlights - How do we navigate ambiguity, uncertainty & move beyond linear thinking? - RUPERT SHELDRAKE
Jan 05, 2024
RUPERT SHELDRAKE - Biologist & Author of The Science Delusion, The Presence of the Past
Jan 05, 2024
Are we living in a Simulated Universe? - Highlights - MELVIN VOPSON
Dec 28, 2023
MELVIN VOPSON - Physicist - Author of Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe
Dec 27, 2023
What makes a good life? - Highlights - ROBERT WALDINGER, Psychiatrist, Author, Zen Priest
Dec 22, 2023
ROBERT WALDINGER - Co-Author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Dec 22, 2023
MAX BENNETT - Author of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains - CEO of Alby
Dec 12, 2023
Highlights - JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Author, Founder of The White Feather Foundation, Doc Filmmaker
Dec 08, 2023
JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Author, Doc Filmmaker, Exec. Producer of Common Ground
Dec 08, 2023
DUANE L. CADY - Philosopher, Author of Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking & From Warism to Pacifism
Dec 05, 2023
HOWARD GARDNER - Author of A Synthesizing Mind & Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Co-director of The Good Project
Nov 29, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: BILL McKIBBEN, Co-Founder of 350.org, Founder Third Act & CAROLINE LEVINE, Author of The Activist Humanist
Nov 27, 2023
GLADYS KALEMA-ZIKUSOKA - Founder/CEO, Conservation Through Public Health - UN Champion of the Earth for Science & Innovation
Nov 24, 2023
MARY HAYASHI - Healthcare Advocate, Former Assemblymember - Author of Women in Politics
Nov 20, 2023
Highlights - LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Nov 13, 2023
LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist - Founder of IE Platform & @GreenGirlLeah
Nov 13, 2023
Highlights - ANDREW KLAVAN - Author of True Crime dir. Clint Eastwood - Don’t Say a Word starring Michael Douglas
Nov 11, 2023
ANDREW KLAVAN - Edgar Award-winning Author of The House of Love and Death - True Crime - Don’t Say a Word
Nov 10, 2023
Highlights - MICHAEL S. ROTH - President of Wesleyan University - Author of The Student: A Short History
Nov 10, 2023
MICHAEL S. ROTH - Author of The Student: A Short History - President of Wesleyan University
Nov 08, 2023
Highlights - BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Director of the ASU Threatcasting Lab - Author of The Future You
Nov 04, 2023
BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Author of The Future You: How to Create the Life You Always Wanted - Futurist in Residence, ASU’s Center for Science & the Imagination
Nov 03, 2023
Highlights - RICK BASS - Author & Environmentalist - “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Nov 02, 2023
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Nov 02, 2023
JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston
Nov 01, 2023
Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Award-winning Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
Nov 01, 2023
Highlights - MARCIA DeSANCTIS - Author of "A Hard Place to Leave", "100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go"
Oct 31, 2023
MARCIA DeSANCTIS - Author of A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
Oct 31, 2023
Highlights - SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Fmr. Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress
Oct 30, 2023
SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Director, Center for the Future Mind, FAU, Fmr. NASA Chair at NASA
Oct 30, 2023
Highlights - TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
Oct 30, 2023
TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
Oct 30, 2023
We All Live on One Planet We Call Home - Part 4 - Environmentalists, Economists, Policymakers & Architects Share their Stories
Oct 29, 2023
LOVE - What is love? Filmmakers, poets, aviators, musicians, cave divers, environmentalists, writers, and artists explore what love means to them
Oct 28, 2023
DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Oct 28, 2023
Highlights - HALA ALYAN - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner - Palestinian-American Poet, Novelist & Clinical Psychologist
Oct 27, 2023
HALA ALYAN - Palestinian-American Poet, Novelist & Clinical Psychologist - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner
Oct 27, 2023
AI & THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
Oct 27, 2023
Highlights - Carl Safina - Author of “Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace”
Oct 27, 2023
CARL SAFINA - Ecologist - Founding President of Safina Center - NYTimes Bestselling Author
Oct 27, 2023
We All Live on One Planet We Call Home - Part 4 - Environmentalists, Economists, Policymakers & Architects Share their Stories
Oct 26, 2023
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
Oct 26, 2023
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
Oct 26, 2023
ALAIN ROBERT - Famous Rock and Urban Climber - Author of With Bare Hands
Oct 25, 2023
Highlights - DAVID FARRIER - Author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
Oct 25, 2023
DAVID FARRIER - Author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils - Prof. U of Edinburgh
Oct 25, 2023
Highlights - ALAIN ROBERT - Famous Rock and Urban Climber - Author of With Bare Hands
Oct 24, 2023
What Kind of World Are We Leaving for Future Generations? - Part 3 - Activists, Environmentalists & Teachers Share their Stories
Oct 23, 2023
Highlights - SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Oct 23, 2023
SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Oct 23, 2023
Highlights - ERICA BERRY - Author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
Oct 22, 2023
ERICA BERRY - Author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
Oct 22, 2023
Highlights - ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
Oct 21, 2023
ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Icelandic Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
Oct 21, 2023
THE ART OF WRITING: NEIL GAIMAN, JERICHO BROWN, ADA LIMÓN, MARGE PIERCY, E.J. KOH & MAX STOSSEL
Oct 20, 2023
Highlights - TREVA B. LINDSEY, PhD - Author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice
Oct 20, 2023
TREVA B. LINDSEY, PhD - Author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice
Oct 20, 2023
Highlights - DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner of The Diplomat starring Keri Russell - Exec. Producer Homeland, Grey’s Anatomy
Oct 19, 2023
DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner & Executive Producer of Netflix’s The Diplomat starring Keri Russell & Rufus Sewell

Oct 19, 2023
Highlights - NEIL GAIMAN - Writer, Producer, Showrunner - The Sandman, American Gods, Good Omens, Coraline
Oct 18, 2023
NEIL GAIMAN - Writer, Producer, Showrunner - The Sandman, American Gods, Good Omens, Coraline
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - Britt Wray - Author, Researcher Working on Climate Change and Mental Health
Oct 18, 2023
Britt Wray - Author of “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis”
Oct 18, 2023
Special Earth Day Stories - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers share their Love for the Planet - Part 1
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis - Moonstruck
Oct 18, 2023
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Academy Award-winning Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams - Moonstruck
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - Anthony Joseph - Award-winning Writer & Musician - “Sonnets for Albert”
Oct 18, 2023
ANTHONY JOSEPH - T.S. Eliot Award-winning Poet, Novelist & Musician, Lead vocalist of The Spasm Band
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
Oct 18, 2023
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - ADA LIMÓN, U.S. Poet Laureate - The Hurting Kind, The Carrying
Oct 18, 2023
ADA LIMÓN, U.S. Poet Laureate - The Hurting Kind, The Carrying
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
Oct 18, 2023
JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill”
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - ROXANE GAY - NYTimes Best-selling Author, Editor & Social Commentator: Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women
Oct 18, 2023
ROXANE GAY - NYTimes Best-selling Author, Editor & Social Commentator: Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - DEAN SPADE - Professor at SeattleU’s School of Law - Author of Mutual Aid, Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Oct 14, 2023