Joan of Art Podcast
1) Gary Lippman explains the one sentence story
A month before Gary Lippman's new novel, 'I Wish, Therefore I Am' comes out, he discusses his book of one-sentence stories, 'We Loved The World But Could Not Stay' with Joan Juliet Buck, who reads the...Show More
2) Laura Day explains how to grow a backbone
Laura Day, a down-to-earth intuitive who spent her youth being lab-tested by academic researchers into ESP, tells Joan Juliet Buck how she turned her neurodiversity into an excellent career-- predicti...Show More
3) Ruth Zaporah, taught me to not think
This Joan of Art is taken from my Substack ‘Every Day Until I Die’, in which I wrote about Ruth Zaporah, who died on May 12. What this dancer who wanted to use words discovered , devised, and taught a...Show More
4) Life under the Boot: I'm Still Here and Seed of The Sacred Fig:
Walter Salles' 'I'm Still Here', about an engineer disappeared from his home by an oppressive regime in 1971, won the Oscar for best not-American film. Mohammad Rasoulof's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig...Show More
5) Renée Martin-Nagle explains Water
Joan Juliet Buck interview Renée Martin-Nagle, who after being the US counsel for french aerospace companies, became an environmental lawyer, founded and runs A Ripple Effect , and is the freshwater e...Show More
6) Emilia Perez is a masterpiece.
Juan Juliet Buck reviews Jacques Audiard’s violent musical masterpiece and explains how a drama about a drug lord who changes sex brings the shock of the new. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg...Show More
7) Nick Quested explains Political Division in America
Do grievances constitute an ideology? No one can get a handle on today, except maybe Nick Quested, producer, director, and maker of documentaries, who embedded with the Proud Boys in the summer of 202...Show More
8) Griffin Dunne explains how to honor your father
The actor Griffin Dunne, born rich and fame-adjacent in Hollywood, tells a family story wilder than any miniseries. His mother was an heiress, his aunt was Joan Didion , his uncle John’s Gregory Dunn...Show More
9) Michael J Gelb explains how to walk well.
Michael J Gelb teaches normal humans how to walk, CEOs how to access genius levels of creativity, and also juggles. He began studying the Alexander Technique in London 43 years ago , became a teacher,...Show More
10) Carolyn Pfeiffer explains how many millions your film must make for you to profit from net points
Carolyn Pfeiffer's unerring flair took her from North Carolina to Rome at 21 with a one way boat ticket, and straight into La Dolce Vita. As the assistant to Claudia Cardinale, she watched two master...Show More