Arts
A night spent drinking and writing about his parents' divorce uncovered an urgent need in Stanford professor Jamil Zaki to author THE WAR FOR KINDNESS: BUILDING EMPATHY IN A FRACTURED WORLD. He and James talk about how empathy can literally grow parts of the brain, hating the term hard-wired, facing the problems of the world today, and (sigh) STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Plus Michael Nye returns to talk about reviving and relaunching STORY. - Jamil Zaki: https://profiles.stanford.edu/jamil-zaki Buy THE WAR FOR KINDNESS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451499240 Jamil and James discuss: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Deanna Troi The Good Samaritan Princeton Manchester United Liverpool Allen Iverson Bill Nye Borderlinks Life After Hate WRECK-IT RALPH Contact Theory Angela King THE NEW YORK TIMES Defensive dehumanization Amanda Cook Gareth Cook Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Carl Sagan - Michael Nye: http://mpnye.com/ Subscribe to STORY: https://www.storymagazine.org/ Michael and James discuss: STORY Lee K. Abbott Travis Kurowski AWP Conference Dave Housley BARRELHOUSE MISSOURI REVIEW RIVER STYX BOULEVARD HUNGER MOUNTAIN ONE STORY PLOUGHSHARES "Nude" By Claudia Hinz "World's End" by Clare Beams Valerie Cumming Ohio State "Amputation of the Angels" by Kyle Minor LaTanya McQueen Shanie Latham THE PARIS REVIEW THE KENYON REVIEW BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES Anne Valente Michael Croley COLUMBUS ALIVE - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/