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DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

Program 08-09-07-A

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Do you ever have the strange feeling that you've heard this promo before? Well, in this case, it's only fitting because we're going to explore deja vu on the next edition of To the Best of Our Knowledge. We'll try to find out what causes us to think we've already experienced the exact same situation before, even though we haven't. And Wendy Lesser talks about watching Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, "Vertigo." Over and over again.


SEGMENT 1:

Chris Moulin is a cognitive neuro-psychologist at Leeds University. He tells Anne Strainchamps about his work involving the phenomenon of deja vu. Here's a link to Moulin's blog .

SEGMENT 2:

We hear a clip from the 2007 film "When Nietzsche Wept" which introduces the concept of "eternal recurrence." That's the subject of Lawrence Hatab's book "Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence." Hatab tells Steve Paulson that the philosopher spells out his notion of a constantly self-renewing universe in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." Also, art critic, novelist and editor Wendy Lesser reads excerpts from her essay "Hitchcock's Vertigo." Doug Gordon produced this piece in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hitchcock masterpiece, which was released in 1958. Lesser's essay appears in her book, "Nothing Remains the Same: Re-Reading and Remembering."

SEGMENT 3:

Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances." She talks with Jim Fleming about the book, and we hear an excerpt from the audio-book version read by Malcolm Hillgartner.

 

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Books:

Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Lawrence J. Hatab, Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence (Routledge)
Wendy Lesser, Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering (Houghton Mifflin)

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Distribution dates: week of 09/07/2008 - hour 1
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