Clever Creature
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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...
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19 എപ്പിസോഡുകൾDEVOLUTION (w/Tim Minchin)
Descend a few rungs on the old evolutionary ladder with us in this, the season 2 finale of Clever Creature.
Mordant, multit...
AUTOTOMY (w/Andre Gregory)
“If your castle’s made of sugar, don’t blame the rain when it melts.”
Sometimes, you’ve just got to kill your darlings. You're a cuttlefish, sa...
GERMINATE (w/Ross Gay)
“He will come back with scars and with stories to tell…”
This episode is about new beginnings that lead to surprising outcomes. Poet and essayis...
EMERGENCE (w/Merlin Sheldrake)
Word by word, a story emerges. Neuron by neuron, consciousness emerges. The story, song, and conversation of this episode are about that mysterious pr...
RHYTHM (w/Bia Labate)
From the reassuring sound of our mother's heartbeat to our last breath, our lives are bounded by rhythm. In music, poetry, meditation, and prayer, rhy...
TRANSITION (w/Ajahn Amaro)
At first glance, the word of this episode is impossibly, mind-bogglingly big. "Transition" applies to everything. There's nothing in the known univers...
CROWN SHYNESS (w/Aimee Nezhukumatathil)
“The higher up I go, the less I need to know…”
“Crown shyness” is social distancing for treetops. It’s a botanical mystery, the fact that certai...
BODY (w/Resmaa Menakem)
“I was so in love with images, I forgot the native art…”
A story, a song, thoughts, and a conversation about what goes on underneath the words a...
THAW (w/Neil Gaiman)
“I never saw a sun so bright as on that day…”
Season Two of the podcast Indiewire calls "a case study in artistic drive" opens with a word of po...
Trailer: Coming 5/12/21 — Clever Creature, Season Two
The show Indiewire called "a case study in artistic drive" is back with nine wild, open new episodes featuring short fiction, conversation, and origin...
SIEGE (w/Jerry Craft)
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 genr...
FAIL (w/Mary-Louise Parker)
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 risk...
PRECEDENT (w/David Sedaris)
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 hi...
CONVICT (w/Etgar Keret)
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 lif...
LACE (w/Françoise Bourzat)
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...
RALLY (w/Shima Oliaee)
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)
Deeper and darker. A Northwestern Gothic coming-of-age tale. An elemental steampunk blues. Novelist and thinker Gish Jen on losing religion, finding a...
DESERT (w/Emre Gots)
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
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 i...