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Discussing the book "Blue highways: a journey into America" with William Least Heat Moon.
When talking about his book, "Chi-Town," Norbert Blei said all the communities in Chicago offer everyone the groups' separate ethnic cultures. Blei also talks about riding the Douglass Park El and the old man sitting on a bench, who he encounters at Grant Park. Lastly, Blei talks about writers who have influenced him.
Poet and translator Kimon Friar discusses Nikos Kazantzakis and the art of Greek translation. Friar discusses the common theme in all of Kazantzaki’s works, how all of nature is set out to transform matter into spirit. Friar discusses and reads Nikos Kazantzakis’s “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, Constantine Cavafy’s “Ithaka”, and Odysseus Elytēs’s “The Autopsy”. This program includes an excerpt of an interview with Eleni Kazantzakis, Nikos’s wife, where she describes how Nikos always saw the excitement in every person he met.
Discussing the book "The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog and Other Stories," (published by Ellis Press) with the author Norbert Blei.
Discussing the book "Chi-Town" (published by Ellis Press) with the author Norbert Blei.
Discussing the book "Blue highways: a journey into America" with William Least Heat Moon.