Monthly Archives: August 2013

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Veronica Gonzalez PeÁ±a, THE SAD PASSIONS & Carl Safina, GYRE

Veronica Gonzalez PeÁ±a
Veronica Gonzalez PeÁ±a
Carl Safina
Carl Safina

Veronica Gonzalez PeÁ±a talks about her new novel, THE SAD PASSIONS ; it’s about a family of four daughters and a mother dealing with mental illness, set in Mexico in the 1960s. And ecologist Carl Safina talks about the new National Geographic film he narrates: GYRE: Creating Art From a Plastic Ocean.

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Jo Robinson, EATING ON THE WILD SIDE & Wendy Jehanarah Tremain, THE GOOD LIFE LAB

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Wendy Tremayne
Jo Robinson
Jo Robinson

Investigative journalist Jo Robinson tells how to choose the most nutritious plant foods in her book, EATING ON THE WILD SIDE: The Missing Link To Optimum Health.

And Maker and author Wendy Jehanarah Tremain talks about her book THE GOOD LIFE LAB: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living. It’s about living well by living free or cheaply within Earth’s eco-budget.

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Margalit Fox, THE RIDDLE OF THE LABYRINTH & Anne C. Heller, AYN RAND

Margalit Fox
Margalit Fox
Anne C Heller
Anne C Heller

Margalit Fox tells the fascinating story of how the ancient Minoan script linear B got cracked — and the forgotten female professor from Brooklyn College without whom it would never have been done. Her book is THE RIDDLE OF THE LABYRINTH:The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. Then Anne C.Heller talks about her biography of Ayn Rand (encore from 2009.)

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Dan Fagin, TOM’S RIVER & Ed Brown, UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS

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Ed Brown

 

Dan Fagin
Dan Fagin

Dan Fagin talks about his terrific history of what went down at Tom’s River New Jersey after a chemical plant moved in. His book is TOM’S RIVER: A Story of Science and Salvation. And Ed Brown discusses his prizewinning documentary, UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS. It’s about the environmental toxins threatening our kids and ourselves.

Dan Fagin won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2014 for TOM’S RIVER.

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