Archive for March, 2007

Writers on A Sense of Place, Part One

March 27th, 2007

The Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts is a region rich in history, natural beauty and writers who take the Valley as their subject. On March 21, 2007, five of those writers read selections from some of their works exploring a sense of place to a packed room of local residents at the Buckland/Shelburne Community Center. [...]

Eric Klinenberg, FIGHTING FOR AIR

March 27th, 2007

Eric Klinenberg talks about FIGHTING FOR AIR: The Battle to Control America’s Media. Also, Susie Patlove reads from her new chapbook, QUICKENING, out from Slate Roof Press.

American Bloomsbury and the Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

March 19th, 2007

We talk to Susan Cheever about AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. And editor and author Kitty Florey tells us about SISTER BERNADETTE’S BARKING DOG: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences.

St. Patrick’s Day/Spring Special

March 13th, 2007

After veteran Kevin O’Hara returned from the war in Vietnam, he felt rootless. So he went to Ireland, his parents’ homeland, in search of his roots. Along the way, he met a bevy of wonderful and wise characters, and made friends with one phenomenal donkey named Missy. He tells about his journey in LAST OF [...]

Michael Downing, SPRING FORWARD

March 2nd, 2007

And it’s time again for Daylight Savings Time. We talk with Michael Downing about SPRING FORWARD: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.

Marge Piercy, SEX WARS

March 2nd, 2007

In honor of International Women’s Day, we talk with Marge Piercy about Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York, her novel of the first American feminist movement.