Engaging adversity: Chuck Close ; Donald Hall ; Jill Sobule
Modern alchemy: Ben Burtt ; Elizabeth Streb ; Richard Serra
The cultivated and the wild: Stanley Kunitz ; Mel Chin ; Julie Bargmann
Going home: William Christenberry ; Alexander Payne ; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Imagination's wellspring: Mira Nair ; David Plowden ; Richard Ford ; Bill Viola
Mothers and fathers: Patti LuPone ; Miriam Katin ; David Milch ; Kevin Bacon ; Rosanne Cash ; Joshua Redman
Creative partners: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant ; Ang Lee and James Schamus ; Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi
Reweaving a shattered world: Terence Blanchard ; Lynn Nottage ; Joel Meyerowitz
Getting to work: Yo-Yo Ma ; Isabel Allende ; Joyce Carol Oates ; Richard Serra ; John Irving ; Tony Kushner ; Chuck Close.
