MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• Not My Job: We Quiz Olympic Skier Lindsey Vonn On Vincent Van Gogh
  Since Vonn is probably used to hearing people yell, "Go, Vonn! Go!" We've invited her to answer three questions about Van Gogh, the Dutch impressionist.
• Bryan Cranston Discusses Legal Twists And Turns On Showtime's 'Your Honor'
  Bryan Cranston stars as a judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run in New Orleans in the new Showtime series, Your Honor. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.
• Retired U.S Naval Academy Cobbler Reflects On 53 Years Of Shoemaking
  Scott Simon speaks with longtime U.S. Naval Academy cobbler Ronald Smith, who has retired after a 53-year career.
• In Michel Faber's Latest, The Disappearance (Isappearance?) Of The Letter 'D'
  Faber has created a world in which the letter d is starting to fade, imperiling things like dogs, doctors, dentists — and a girl named Dhikilo, who travels to a different world to solve the mystery.
• 'Ordesa' Is A Difficult Read — But Stick With It
  Manuel Vilas' quiet, intensely sad new, about a middle-aged man trying to connect with his estranged family while thinking a lot of deep thoughts about death, requires patience, but it's worth it.
• 'Your Honor' Captures A Horrifying Spiral Of Accidents — And Consequences
  Bryan Cranston is a judge whose life is torn apart when his teen son is involved in a car accident with a mobster's son. The legal twists and dramatic turns are nonstop in this Showtime miniseries.
• Rosie Perez: The Flight Attendant
  Rosie Perez talks about recording safety messages for the New York City subway, her new show The Flight Attendant, and plays a game where she finishes Muhammad Ali's sentences.
• More, More, Moray
  What has more eyes, a starfish or a scallop? Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri and her fellow "Iconography" podcast host Olivia Craighead compare animals and guess which has more of a thing.
• Yeahs In History
  In this audio quiz, Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri and her fellow "Iconography" podcast host Olivia Craighead identify songs with the word "yeah" in them. Ohhhhh yeahhhhhhh.
• Musical Food Pyramid
  Jonathan Coulton plays songs by bands named after food rewritten to be about those foods. Fortune Feimster (Chick Fight) and Jillian Bell (Brittany Runs A Marathon) absolutely crush it.