Archive for January, 2007

This Week - January 19: Simon Winchester & Dylan Schaffer

January 19th, 2007

Writer’s Voice talks with Simon Winchester about A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: America And The Great California Earthquake Of 1906. (…)

This Week’s Podcast: Richard Ford and Scott Ritter

January 15th, 2007

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford talks about THE LAY OF THE LAND. Also, Scott Ritter, on TARGET:IRAN.

 
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Part Two of This Week’s Podcast: Scott Ritter

January 15th, 2007

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on TARGET: IRAN. We talk to him about US plans for war with Iran.

 
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Podcast of NEA Chairman Dana Gioia

January 13th, 2007

We talk with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia about poetry, the state of reading in America, and what government can do to promote literature. (…)

 
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Next Week - January 19: Simon Winchester

January 11th, 2007

Writer’s Voice talks with Simon Winchester, author of the bestsellers The Map That Changed the World, The Professor and The Madman, and Krakatoa, about his newest book, A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: America And The Great California Earthquake Of 1906.

This Week - January 12: Richard Ford and Scott Ritter

January 11th, 2007

Frank Bascombe is back, twenty years after Richard Ford’s THE SPORTSWRITER and ten years after the Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel, INDEPENDENCE DAY. (…)

Eve Ensler: Insecure At Last

January 7th, 2007

Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler talks with host Francesca Rheannon about her new book, INSECURE AT LAST: Losing It In Our Security Obsessed World. (…)

 
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