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. [...]
Archive for March, 2007
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.

