In an article in The New Yorker, Jonah Lehrer reports on where in the brain insights come from. It’s the right brain. When brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke that devastated her left brain, she was catapulted into a fully right brain experience:a boundless sense of peace, the dissolution of boundaries, and a [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Wind Energy Island, Milk-N-Honey, and Families of the Vine
July 23rd, 2008
We talk with Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker about her recent article, “The Island in the Wind”. And Ellen Beckerman tells us about her new play, MILK AND HONEY. And finally, a clip from an archived interview with Michael Sanders about FAMILIES OF THE VINE: Seasons Among the Winemakers of Southwest France.
Melody Petersen
July 8th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with reporter and author Melody Petersen about OUR DAILY MEDS. It’s about how the pharmaceutical industry has put marketing above medicine and corrupted our health care system in the process. Also, Maxine Kumin. talks about her poem “Nurture”.
New Fiction from Margot Livesy and Ellen Cooney
July 1st, 2008
We talk with novelists Margot Livesey ( THE HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET) and Ellen Cooney (Lambrusco). Livesey’s stunning new novel is 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 [...]

