Sunday, March 14, 2010
2010-03-08 15:55:19
THE PURPLE INTERVIEW: Novelist James Hynes Talks Aliens, Autobiography, God and Horror
Tomorrow is the publication day for the long-awaited new novel by James Hynes. The book is called Next, and it's ostensibly a story about a guy looking for a job and a woman on a hot day in Austin, Texas, but that's like saying that Loch Ness is a lake in Scotland...More
2010-03-01 08:41:13
by JOHN MARKS In a polarized world, gay Christians face a tough choice. Their identities often lie on one side of a gulf, their beliefs on the other...More
2010-02-22 06:20:39
THE PURPLE INTERVIEW: Christian Caryl Talks Revolution, Religion and The Seminal Year 1979
by JOHN MARKS How do we define change? Do we know when we’re living through a revolution? Must it be accompanied by mass demonstrations, as in 1968 in the United States or 1989 in Eastern Europe? Or can vast transformation come on tip-toe? Take 1979, for instance...More
2010-02-15 07:33:47
THE PURPLE INTERVIEW: Keeping The Feast For Lent
by JOHN MARKS I can't think of a better way to mark the start of the Lenten season than a conversation with Paula Butturini, journalist, cook and author of a splendid new memoir Keeping The Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food And Healing in Italy...More
2010-02-08 07:04:16
THE PURPLE INTERVIEW: Neil Skene Talks Tea Parties, Civility and Florida Politics
by JOHN MARKS There was never any chance that 2010 would be a quiet political year. The Mid-Term races see to that. Yet in the wake of the Massachusetts special election that ended the Democrat supermajority in Congress, a new spirit of contention has gripped the land...More
2010-02-02 06:43:38
THE PURPLE INTERVIEW: Faith, Hope, Science and Caprica
by JOHN MARKS Salman Hameed may be the ideal Battlestar Galactica fan. You might even call him the target demographic. He's an astronomer who teaches classes at Hampshire College on the intersection between science and faith...More
2010-01-25 07:21:37
GREG MOTTOLA: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW (A RERUN IN HONOR OF THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL)
BY JOHN MARKS Today the Purple State team goes to the Sundance Film Festival, and we start the excitement with an interview conducted last summer with Greg Mottola, one of Hollywood's smartest directors of comedy and a truly independent spirit in an industry that doesn't often reward independence...More
2010-01-18 16:26:52
THE PURPLE INTERVIEW: One Burundian Tells His Story Of War, Survival and Reconciliation (Part II)
In 1994, when Burundian Pascal Akimana was 13 years old, he became a refugee for the second time. That year, Hutus in Rwanda carried out a genocide against their Tutsi neighbors, murdering almost a million men, women and children in a matter of weeks...More
2010-01-11 18:26:51
THE PURPLE INTERVIEW: One Burundian Tells His Story Of War, Survival And Reconciliation
Today, an independent Rwandan commission released its report on the 1994 assassination of Rwandan dictator Juvenal Habyarimana, charging that Hutu extremists brought down Habyarimana's plane with surface-to-air missiles, killing him as well as Burundi president Cyprien Ntyarimira...More
2009-12-07 18:33:53
John Francis Talks Nashville And John Carter Cash: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
It seems a long time ago now that Nashville was known as the home of country music. A lot of what still goes by that name and still gets made in the city sounds like what people used to call pop, and a lot of what still sounds like country is made anywhere and everywhere...More
2009-11-30 12:14:42
Doug Wright Talks Tennessee Williams: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
In his moving introduction to a new edition of Tennessee Williams Night Of The Iguana, Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright Doug Wright writes about his discovery of the play at the age of fifteen while watching late-night television...More
2009-11-23 07:50:25
PAULA BUTTURINI KEEPS THE FEAST AT THANKSGIVING: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
I can't think of a better way to mark the passing of Thanksgiving than a conversation with Paula Butturini, journalist, cook and author of a splendid new memoir Keeping The Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food And Healing in Italy...More
2009-11-22 16:41:10
In case you missed our first batch of Purple Interviews, here's your chance to go back and catch up. No matter what your interests, you're liable to find something worthwhile here...More
2009-11-09 09:50:22
RHETT MILLER: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
When a musician loves words, language itself becomes an instrument, an invisible piano spilling vowels and consonants into every song. You hear it in Tori Amos, Conor Oberst and Jay-Zee, all of whom have a delirious love of their native tongue, and you definitely hear it in Rhett Miller, best known as the front man of the Old 97's...More
2009-11-02 13:30:51
GREG EPSTEIN, OR A HUMANIST CHAPLAIN GOES TO HARVARD: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
What do you call someone who doesn't believe in God or god or the gods? Atheist? Agnostic? Doubter? Skeptic? Creep? Sane? Obviously, a lot depends on what you believe yourself...More
2009-10-02 17:09:19
ADVENTURELAND:THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
If there is any justice, and there isn't much, when the movie critics start to make their top ten lists at the end of the year, one film should routinely make the cut, and that's the superb, quiet comedy Adventureland, directed by Greg Mottola...More
2009-09-30 14:22:46
ADVENTURELAND: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
If there is any justice, and there isn't much, when the movie critics start to make their top ten lists at the end of the year, one film should routinely make the cut, and that's the superb, quiet comedy Adventureland, directed by Greg Mottola...More
2009-08-24 18:54:08
WHO OWNS THE STORY OF MATHEW SHEPARD?: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
Ten years ago, this October, University of Wyoming student Mathew Shepard was tortured and murdered outside the city of Laramie. He wasn't the first man or woman to die as a result of his sexual orientation, but somehow the country was ready to see such violence through newly horrified eyes...More
2009-08-17 16:15:47
MEL GIBSON, NED FLANDERS AND THE POP MUSIC OF THE CHRIST: THE PURPLE INTERVIEW
When it comes to the mix of faith and pop in popular culture, we tend to ignore the faith and embrace the pop. Anyone who loved the music of Johnny Cash and saw the generally decent biopic Walk The Line had to be painfully aware of the airbrushing of the Man In Black's emphasis on Jesus...More
2009-07-19 21:16:09
TOMORROW: ONE OF OUR MOST GIFTED WRITERS TALKS GOD, TEXAS, THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION AND HORROR
Don't miss the Purple Interview tomorrow, when novelist James Hynes goes twelve rounds with us about his forthcoming novel Next, his views on the afterlife---pro and con---why he loves Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The Wire, and just what it is about Austin, Texas, that he can't get out of his system...More
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