Krys Boyd talks with North Texas author Ben Fountain — just as he goes on tour for his new novel set at Cowboys Stadium, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.

Sujatha Fernandes has a rare background: Indian-Portuguese from Australia, a sociology professor — and an emcee. She’s delved into global hip-hop from Caracas to Cuba to Chicago to find out why youth all over the world turned to the beat.

THINK host Krys Boyd talks with Turner Prize-winning sculptor Tony Cragg about his new show at the Nasher Sculpture Center — the first American exhibition of his work in the US in almost 20 years. They discuss ‘art history’ and ‘personal history,’ as he says — Pop Art to biochemistry to rubbish dumps.

What’s up with Helvetica these days? And why did we ever develop so many typefaces. THINK host talks with Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type.

Oscar-winning documentary director Erroll Morris (The Thin Blue Line) is uniquely positioned to discuss the truths and mysteries of photography — with THINK host Krys Boyd.

No director has staged two, back-to-back mainstage shows at the Dallas Theater Center in 25 years (if we exclude ‘Christmas Carols’). Joel Ferrell not only did it, he did it with two of the DTC’s best productions recently: ‘Dividing the Estate’ and now, ‘Cabaret.’

Today in the roundup: Words with the new DSO concertmaster, assessing the Dallas arts scene and ranking the halftime shows.

On Wednesday, Dallas Morning News music critic Mario Tarradell and Fort Worth Star Telegram music critic Preston Jones were kind enough to join me in a discussion about the year in pop music on Think.
If you missed our conversation, you can listen to it in its entirety here.

In case you missed it on Thursday, Chris Kelly from the Fort Worth Star Telegram and Chris Vognar from The Dallas Morning News joined me to discuss the current crop of movies on screens with Krys Boyd on Think. To say there was disagreement is putting it mildly. Take a listen to find out who liked (and disliked) what:

Why are vampires making such a comeback in current literature, film and television? On Thursday, Think host Krys Boyd spoke with Rechelle Christie, gothic literature specialist at UTA, and Rick Worland, SMU film professor and author of the book The Horror Film: An Introduction.