In Part One of this week’s show, we talk with writer and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams about her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World. (Part Two, David Danelo talking about THE BORDER: Exploring the U.S.-Mexican Divide, will appear as a separate podcast.)
Archive for October, 2008
Comix as Art and Politics: Art Spiegelman and Greg Palast
October 20th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon interviews comix master Art Spiegelman. Also, investigative journalist Greg Palast talks about the comic book he produced with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., STEAL BACK YOUR VOTE!.
DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGIOUS LEFT
October 14th, 2008
We talk with Fred Clarkson, co-founder of Talk2Action, about the book he just edited: Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America. We also talk with Chip Berlet about the essay he contributed to the book. And contributor and organizer Leo Maley tells us about how the religious Left organized [...]
Ron Suskind, THE WAY OF THE WORLD and ELIZABETH WINTHROP, COUNTING ON GRACE
October 4th, 2008
Francesca talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind about . Also, Elizabeth Winthrop on , the story of an 11-year old girl working in the textile mills of Vermont at the turn of the twentieth century.
Web Extra: Elizabeth Winthrop’s Discovery of Addie Card
October 4th, 2008
Elizabeth Winthrop paints a vivid portrait of the plight of child laborers in the New England textile mills in the early 1900′s. She bases her main character, Grace, on the photograph by Lewis Hine of a young girl posed in front of her machine. While writing the book, Winthrop went in search of the real [...]
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