We talk with Margot Livesey about THE HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET, her stunning new novel about love, loss and the ambiguities of existence. Told from the point of view of four narrators, it explores how they try to make sense of their world when their lives are upended by the unexpected–and how their human frailties [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Ta-Nehisi Coates, THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE
June 15th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his memoir, . Coates grew up with his father, mother, siblings and half-siblings in an African American neighborhood in northwest Baltimore during the 1980’s. He was a kid when the crack epidemic hit Baltimore and sucked the life out of what had once been a thriving, intact, [...]
Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment
June 3rd, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Lewis about his pithy and thought-provoking “biography” of the First Amendment, FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT WE HATE.
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