On Human Agency and the Language of Grief: Colin Campbell explains why grieving is the quintessential human activity

EPISODE 1358: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to FINDING THE WORDS author Colin Campbell about the death of his two children and how he and his wife have tried to work though this loss with both hope and purpose.

COLIN CAMPBELL is a writer and director for theater and film. The short film he wrote and directed with his beautiful and talented wife, Seraglio, was nominated for an Academy Award. Campbell teaches screenwriting at Chapman University and theater at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Columbia University. He is currently developing a solo performance piece titled Grief: A One Man S**t-Show. Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose is his first book.

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

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