We talk with David Lovelace about his memoir, SCATTERSHOT: My Bipolar Family. And Maggie Jackson tells us about DISTRACTED: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Archive for August, 2008
The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
August 12th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with journalist Jeff Sharlet about his bestselling new book, . It’s about the real “New World Order” of elite fundamentalism that threatens our democracy.
New Fiction from Paul Auster and Jennifer Haigh; Michael Klare on Russia-Georgia War
August 5th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with acclaimed novelist Paul Auster about his new work of fiction, MAN IN THE DARK. Also, Jennifer Haigh tells us about her new novel, THE CONDITION. And we’ll also air an excerpt from an interview we did last year with Michael Klare about his book, RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET, THE NEW [...]
John Kessel, BAUM PLAN FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
August 1st, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon speaks first with speculative fiction writer John Kessel, who makes thought experiments about real issues by placing them in imaginary contexts. His latest collection, , brings fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism to bear on the relations between the sexes, the conundrums of time travel, the windfalls of fortune, terrorism, and democracy. [...]
Climate Change, Past, Present and Future
August 1st, 2008
The current climate crisis isn’t the first time human beings have faced global climate change. Extreme weather, ice sheets melting into the Arctic ocean, and mega-droughts lasting a century or more: it all happened before, between the tenth and the fifteenth centuries. The global warming of the Middle Ages changed civilization, bringing both great disorder [...]
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