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This week, we present an encore of our 2016 conversation with songwriter and musician Paul Simon. Simon has been the recipient of many honors and awards including 12 Grammy Awards, three of which (\u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d, \u201cStill Crazy After All These Years\u201d and \u201cGraceland\u201d) were albums of the year. In 2003 he was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as half of the duo Simon and Garfunkel. He is in the Rock n\u2019 Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. He was a recipient of The Kennedy Center Honors in 2002 and was named as one of Time Magazine\u2019s \u201c100 People Who Shape Our World\u201d in 2006. In 2007, Mr. Simon was awarded the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

On June 6, 2016, Paul Simon came to the Nourse Theater in San Francisco for an on-stage conversation with Dave Eggers, after performing at the Greek Theater in Berkeley on June 3 and 4. \xa0His album \u201cStranger to Stranger\u201d had been released that same week.\xa0 Paul Simon\u2019s latest work, \u201cSeven Psalms\u201d came out in 2023.