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    Clever Creature

    “A perfectly weird zine for your ears” – Boing Boing. “A case study in artistic drive” – Indiewire. A single surprise word seeds a piece of short fiction, a song, a reflection, and (part of) a conversation. Guests including Resmaa Menakem, Neil Gaiman, Mary-Louise Parker, and more. Until 2020, Jason hosted Think Again, with thinkers and creatives including Terry Gilliam, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, and over 200 more. The show was an iTunes Best of 2015 pick and won praise from Salon, Inc. and The Huffington Post. Jason’s memoir HUMANITY IS TRYING: coming in 2021 from HarperCollins.

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    SIEGE (w/Jerry Craft) Aug 18, 2020
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    Season 1 finale. A father besieged in his videogame-obsessed son's bedroom. Graphic novelist Jerry Craft on race, class, and middle school. And a genre-defying barn-burner of a rock tune.

    FAIL (w/Mary-Louise Parker) Aug 04, 2020
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    Could this be the most uplifting episode yet? A dung beetle risks everything for a life beyond drudgery. Actress and writer Mary-Louise Parker on risking failure and ignoring ridicule for those perfect moments when everything works. And a pop-rock tune to get you through tough times.

    PRECEDENT (w/David Sedaris) Jul 21, 2020
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    David Sedaris joins Jason from lockdown to talk about creative risks that might get him cancelled. In this week's fiction story, a tuba zealot begs his brother not to go electric. And an acoustic tune about brunch inside the neutral zone, with ennui and avocado toast.

    CONVICT (w/Etgar Keret) Jul 07, 2020
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    Mushrooms, love, and anarchy on an alien prison colony. Etgar Keret on taking your art too seriously. And a beat-driven tribal-futurist tune about life in the substrate.

    LACE (w/Françoise Bourzat) Jun 23, 2020
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    The word of the episode—"Lace"—plants a seed that grows into a trip-hop tune about cognitive biases, an existential weird-fiction detective story, and a deep dive with Consciousness Medicine author Françoise Bourzat on psychedelics and psychological healing.

    RALLY (w/Shima Oliaee) Jun 09, 2020
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    An imaginary city with a feral pig problem. Radiolab's Shima Oliaee on rallying yourself through the twists and turns of a creative career.

    CHURCH (w/Gish Jen) May 26, 2020
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    Deeper and darker. A Northwestern Gothic coming-of-age tale. An elemental steampunk blues. Novelist and thinker Gish Jen on losing religion, finding art, and taking creative risks.

    DESERT (w/Emre Gots) May 12, 2020
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    A lost man converses with his gut flora. A song about deserts real and imaginary. Jason and his son discuss the Ice Cream Desert and its denizens.

    Season 1 trailer: a creative leap of faith Feb 25, 2020
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    Coming 5/12/20, with David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, and other guests: a different kind of variety show: a story, a song, and a conversation, all inspired by one random word.

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