This Week: THE KNITTING CIRCLE, MEDIA REFORM
February 1st, 2007
Our guests are novelist Ann Hood, talking about THE KNITTING CIRCLE and Craig Aaron of Free Press, who gives us an update about the state of media reform.
When Ann Hood lost her five year old daughter to meningitis, her grief was so great, she was unable to write for two years. Knitting helped her begin her life anew and find her way back to words. She’s written a terrific novel drawing on her experience: THE KNITTING CIRCLE. She talks with us about grief and how friends, time — and knitting — can help one heal from loss. Hood will be speaking at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley on February 8 at 7 pm.
Also, more than 3500 activists came together in Memphis, Tennessee in January at the Media Reform Conference organized by Free Press, an advocacy group headquarted in Northampton, Massachusetts. Free Press’ communication director, Craig Aaron, talks about the forces threatening a free media and the fightback to protect it. Full video and audio downloads of the conference are available on the Free Press conference website.
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