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A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott's remarkable writings
"All I really need to do is simply ask a question," Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds himself. "And then listen." It sounds simple, but in fact few have taken the art of asking questions to such heights-and depths-as Jonathan Cott, whom Jan Morris called "an incomparable interviewer," one whose skill, according to the great interviewer and oral historian Studs Terkel, "is artless yet impassioned and knowing."
Collected here are twenty-two of Cott's most illuminating interviews that encourage readers to listen to film directors and musicians, actors and writers, scientists and visionaries. These conversations affirm the indispensable and transformative powers of the imagination and offer us new ways to view these lives and their worlds. What is it like to be Bob Dylan making a movie? Carl Sagan taking on the cosmos? Oliver Sacks doctoring the soul? John Lennon, on December 5, 1980? Elizabeth Taylor, ever? From Chinua Achebe to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Federico Fellini to Werner Herzog, and Oriana Fallaci to Studs Terkel, Listening takes readers on a journey to discover not ways of life but ways to life. Within these pages,Cott proves himself to be, in the words of Brain Pickings's Maria Popova, "an interlocutor extraordinaire," drawing candid insights and profound observations from these inspired and inspiring individuals.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
Chinua Achebe: At the Crossroads
George Balanchine: Dancing with Mr. B
J. G. Ballard: Halos of Light
Ray Davies: Afternoon Tea on Hampstead Heath
Bob Dylan: Behind the Mask
Oriana Fallaci: The Art of Unclothing an Emperor
Federico Fellini: The Language of Dreams
Theodor Geisel: The Good Dr. Seuss
Richard Gere: Face-to-Face
StÉphane Grappelli: The Prince of Violins
Werner Herzog: Signs of Life
Mick Jagger: Some Girls
John Lennon: December 5, 1980
Astrid Lindgren: The Happy Childhoods of Pippi Longstocking
Henry Miller: Reflections of a Cosmic Tourist
Lou Reed: A New York State of Mind
Oliver Sacks: The Neurology of the Soul
Carl Sagan: Taking On the Cosmos
Sam Shepard: Lies of the Mind
Elizabeth Taylor: Passion
Studs Terkel: Nothing But Listen
Marie-Louise von Franz: Forever Jung
Acknowledgments
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