Artist, designer, and author Tiffany Gholar joins us to delve into the nature of art and creative production, fashion dolls, and even game show appearances.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Episode artwork: Mopsy Modes, from Mopsy, 1(1), 1948 (cropped). Public domain image by Gladys Parker, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Julie Aigner-Clark Baby Einstein
Ted Chiang Stories of Your Life and Others
David X. Cohen/Matt Groening Futurama
Kristin Kobes Du Mez Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Tiffany Gholar The Unforeseeable Future
Tiffany Gholar A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Tiffany Gholar The Doll Project
Tiffany Gholar Post-Consumerism
Tiffany Gholar Imperfect Things
Stephen King The Stand
Mario Levrero Empty Words
Mario Levrero The Luminous Novel
Daniel Myrick Eduardo Sánchez The Blair Witch Project
Anne Helen Petersen Culture Study newsletter
David Quammen Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
David Quammen The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
Elizabeth Rush Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Elizabeth Rush The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
Rebekah Weatherspoon Cowboys of California series