Archive for February, 2009

Verghese, CUTTING FOR STONE and Weil, Healthy Aging

February 24th, 2009

Physician and author Abraham Verghese tells us about CUTTING FOR STONE, his first novel after publishing two acclaimed memoirs. And Dr. Andrew Weil talks about how to age healthy and well.

LONELINESS AS A WAY OF LIFE and MINDFULLY GREEN

February 17th, 2009

We talk with Amherst College professor Thomas Dumm about LONELINESS AS A WAY OF LIFE. And environmental educator and Buddhist Stephanie Kaza tells us how to go MINDFULLY GREEN.

Slow Money/Fast Money…and Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast

February 10th, 2009

Woody Tasch, SLOW MONEY; Katy Lederer, HEAVEN-SENT LEAF; Jeff Sharlet on Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast

David S. Reynolds, WAKING GIANT and Wally Swist, MOUNT TOBY POEMS

February 1st, 2009

We talk with cultural historian David S. Reynolds about his new book, WAKING GIANT: America in the Age of Jackson. And poet Wally Swist reads from his forthcoming collection, MOUNT TOBY POEMS.