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Jason Gots
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 hosted Think Again, with thinkers and creatives including Terry Gilliam, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, and over 200 more. The show was an iTunes Best of 2015 pick and won praise from Salon, Inc. and The Huffington Post. Jason’s memoir HUMANITY IS TRYING: coming in 2021 from HarperCollins.
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Ratings & Reviews
4.9 stars from 48 ratings
Creativity Full Throtal
Here is a man who is so brilliantly creative that he needs to devise new ways to raise the bar for himself. He came up with something fascinating and visceral and WEIRD! BRAVO!!! :)
MrPotter07 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/30/20
Remarkable
Jason does so much cool stuff in each episode of Clever Creatures. He is a creative dynamo who demystifies the creative process—that is to say, he continually acknowledges how mysterious and beguiling creative pursuits can be, and invites us under the hood of his own thinking and feeling about...Read full review »
P.P. Bub via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/06/20
Clever Creature is marvelous
Jason is ,indeed, a clever creature. The podcasts are a delight. Ron
DrBabylon via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 06/24/20
Recent Episodes
Descend a few rungs on the old evolutionary ladder with us in this, the season 2 finale of Clever Creature. Mordant, multitalented Australian songwriter and actor Tim Minchin, the lyricist of the musicals MATILDA and GROUNDHOG DAY, talks with Jason about creative evolution, cultural devolution,...
Published 09/01/21
Published 09/01/21
“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, say, and something’s got your arm in its jaws? No worries. Just eject it! It’ll grow back later . . . In biology, that’s called “autotomy”. In this...
Published 08/18/21
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