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A list of previous guests (with useful Web links) is below…

Writer’s Voice Guests in 2008

• Nicholson Baker, HUMAN SMOKE; Joshua Krugman, poet
• Tom Baker, Jim Cahillane and Carl Russo, THE FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY
• Susan Jacoby, AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON; Lee Siegel, AGAINST THE MACHINE
• Philip Fradkin, WALLACE STEGNER; Rutherford Platt, THE HUMANE METROPOLIS
• Rebekah Presson Mosby, POETRY SPEAKS EXPANDED; Amy Fagin, BEYOND GENOCIDE and David Edwards, KABUL TRANSIT
• Journalist Greg Palast, Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference
• Les Fehmi, THE OPEN FOCUS BRAIN
• Eric Weitz, WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy
• 2/29 John Elder Robison, LOOK ME IN THE EYE; Josh Silver of Free Press.
• 2/22 Celebrating Black History: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Mr. and Mrs. Prince, and excerpts from our archives on COMPLICITY, THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME, and our interview with poet Lynn Thompson
• 2/15 Kevin Patterson, CONSUMPTION and John Hanson Mitchell, LOOKING FOR MR. GILBERT
• 2/8 poet laureate Al Young, SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES and Geraldine Brooks, PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
• 2/1 Russell Banks, THE RESERVE and Tahmima Anam, A GOLDEN AGE
• 1/25 Devra Davis, SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR ON CANCER and Paul Blanc, HOW EVERYDAY PRODUCTS MAKE PEOPLE SICK
• 1/18 Pamela Thompson, EVERY PAST THING and Susan Cheever, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY
• 1/11 Norman Soloman, MAKE LOVE, GOT WAR and Valerie Martin, TRESPASS
• 1/04 Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Oskar Cole, DAM NATION and Jacques Leslie, DEEP WATER

Writer’s Voice Guests in 2007

• 12/28 Larry Sloman, SECRET LIFE OF HOUDINI
• 12/17 Frances Moore Lappe, GETTING A GRIP and poet Susie Patlove, QUICKENING
• 12/10 Les Leopold, THE MAN WHO HATED LABOR and Richard Michaelson, TUTTLE’S RED BARN
• 12/07 George Monbiot, HEAT
• 11/30 Dennis Lehane, CORONADO and Julia Glass, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER
• 11/23 Xiaou Lu Guo, A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS
• 11/16 Dahr Jamail, BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE
• 11/9 David Gross, FAST COMPANY and Alana Newhouse, A LIVING LENS
• 11/2 Katharine Weber, TRIANGLE
• 10/26 Leonard Nimoy, THE FULL BODY PROJECT with Leslea Newman and Susan Stinson
• 10/19 Bruce E. Levine, SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMIC
• 10/12 Francisco Goldman, THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER and Lynn Thompson, BEG NO PARDON
• 10/05 John J. Clayton WRESTLING WITH ANGELS
• 9/28 Vali Nasr, THE SHIA REVIVAL
• 9/21Alan Snitow, THIRST
• 9/15 Mayer Hillman, THE SUICIDAL PLANET and David Gershon, LOW CARBON DIET
• 9/7 Junot Diaz, THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO and Laraine Herring, WRITING BEGINS WITH THE BREATH
• 8/31 Paul Hawken, BLESSED UNREST and Larry Slocum, THE SECRET LIFE OF HOUDINI
• 8/24 Diana Preston, TAJ MAHAL
• 8/17 readings from Jaime de Angulo’s INDIAN TALES from the Pacifica Archives
• 8/10 Cathy Sultan, A BEIRUT HEART
• 8/3 Robert Finch, THE IAMBICS OF NEWFOUNDLAND
• 7/27 Beatrice Hohenegger, LIQUID JADE
• 7/20 Debby Applegate, THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA
• 7/13 Anita Shreve, BODY SURFING and Mark Eleveld, SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION REDUX
• 7/6 Sasha Abramsky, AMERICAN FURIES and Becky Kemery, YURTS
• 6/29 Josef Woodman, PATIENTS BEYOND BORDERS and Dr. Brent Bauer, MAYO CLINIC BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
• 6/22 Jacqueline Sheehan, LOST AND FOUND and Sophie Freud, LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE FREUD FAMILY
• 6/15 Beatrice Fernando, IN CONTEMPT OF FATE and David Batstone, NOT FOR SALE
• 6/8 Patricia Klindienst, THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME and comedian KATE CLINTON
• 6/1 Steve Hendricks, THE UNQUIET GRAVE and performance artist D’Lo
• 5/25 Leslie Cerier, GOING WILD IN THE KITCHEN and Jim Armenti, THE GREAT PUMPKIN ROLL (CD)
• 5/18 Bill McKibben, DEEP ECONOMY and David Gessner, SOARING WITH FIDEL
• 5/11 No Show: UMass Sports preemption
• 5/4 No Show: UMass Sports preemption
• 4/27 Jeanne Braham and Barry Moser, LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT and Maxine Kumin, JACK
• 4/20 Anita Shreve, BODY SURFING and Mark Eleveld, SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION REDUX
• 4/13 Eesha Williams, GRASSROOTS JOURNALISM and Sefi Atta, SOMETHING GOOD WILL COME
• 4/6 Jeremy Scahill, BLACKWATER and Giuliana Sgrena, FRIENDLY FIRE
• 3/30 Ian Buruma, MURDER IN AMSTERDAM and Andy Stern, A COUNTRY THAT WORKS
• 3/23 Eric Klinenberg, FIGHTING FOR AIR
• 3/16 Susan Cheever, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY and Kitty Florey, SISTER BERNADETTE’S BARKING DOG
• 3/9 Marge Piercy, SEX WARS and Michael Downing, SPRING FORWARD
• 2/23 Dr. David Elkind, THE POWER OF PLAY and Patty Dann, THE GOLDFISH WENT ON VACATION
• 2/16 Ann Jones, KABUL IN WINTER and Mark Levine, THE FINE PRINT OF SELF-PUBLISHING
• 2/9 John Dickerson, ON HER TRAIL and Linda Cardillo, DANCING ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS
• 2/2 Ann Hood, THE KNITTING CIRCLE and Craig Aaron on the Conference on Media Reform
• 1/26 Mary Cowhey, BLACK ANTS AND BUDDHISTS and ENCHANTED CIRCLE THEATER
• 1/19 Simon Winchester A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD and Dylan Schaffer, LIFE, DEATH AND BIALYS
• 1/12 Richard Ford, THE LAY OF THE LAND
• 1/05 Eve Ensler, INSECURE AT LAST and Peter Barnes, CAPITALISM 3.0

Writer’s Voice Guests in 2006

• 12/29 NEA director Dana Gioia on The Big Read
• 12/22 Richard Michelson, ACROSS THE ALLEY and Studs Terkel, AND THEY ALL SANG
• 12/15 Rob Walch, TRICKS OF THE PODCASTING MASTERS and Peter Bowerman, THE WELL-FED SELF-PUBLISHER
• 12/8 John Nichols, THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT
• 12/1 Shel Horowitz, GRASS-ROOTS MARKETING FOR AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS and Michael Shuman, SMALL-MART REVOLUTION: How Local Businesses are Beating the Local Competition.
• 11/24 Nina Planck, REAL FOOD: What to Eat and Why. and Brian Wansink, MINDLESS EATING: Why We Eat More Than We Think.
• 11/17 Dr. Andrew Weil, HEALTHY AGING and Judy Norsigan, OUR BODIES, OURSELVES: MENOPAUSE
• 11/10 Fritz Stern, FIVE GERMANYS I HAVE KNOWN and Joyce Avrech Berkman, CONTEMPLATING EDITH STEIN
• 11/3 Scott Ritter, TARGET:IRAN
• 10/27 Steve Freeman, WAS THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STOLEN? and Bruce Ackerman, BEYOND THE NEXT ATTACK
• 10/20 Sasha Abramsky, CONNED and Jan Whitaker, SERVICE AND STYLE
• 10/13 Martin Espada, REPUBLIC OF POETRY and Elizabeth Kostova, THE HISTORIAN
• 10/6 Spencer Overton, STEALING DEMOCRACY and Francine Prose, READING LIKE A WRITER
• 9/29 Amy and David Goodman, STATIC and Cathy Sultan, A BEIRUT HEART
• 9/22 Frances Moore Lappe, DEMOCRACY’S EDGE and Maxine Kumin, JACK AND OTHER NEW POEMS
• 9/15 Avi Rubin, BRAVE NEW BALLOT and Justin Akers, NO ONE IS ILLEGAL
• 9/8 David Callahan, THE MORAL CENTER and Dina Friedman, PLAYING DAD’S SONG
• 9/1 Greg Palast on Katrina and Writer’s Voice Retrospective
• 8/25 Gerald Hausman, A MIND WITH WINGS
• 8/18 John Horgan, RATIONAL MYSTICISM and Chris Moriarty, SPIN CONTROL
• 8/11 Greg Palast, ARMED MADHOUSE; Geoff Pullum, FAR FROM THE MADDING GERUND
• 8/4 Michael Steinberg, FOURTH GENRE and Deb McCutcheon, THE WHALE ROAD
• 7/28 Peter Galbraith, END OF IRAQ
• 7/21 Mark Crispin Miller, FOOLED AGAIN
• 7/14 Caroline Paul, EAST WIND, RAIN
• 7/7 A. Manette Ansay, BLUE WATER; Dan Chiras, THE HOMEOWNER’S GUIDE TO RENEWABLE ENERGY
• 6/30 Alan Furst, THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT; Markos Moulitzas, CRASHING THE GATE
• 6/23 Helen Thomas, WATCHDOGS OF DEMOCRACY?; Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project
• 6/16 Michelle Goldberg, KINGDOM COMING; David Sirota, HOSTILE TAKEOVER
• 6/9 Sandy Tolan, THE LEMON TREE
• 6/2 Betsy Leander-Wright, THE COLOR OF WEALTH; Miriam Weinstein, THE SURPRISING POWER OF FAMILY MEALS
• 5/26 Stephen O’Shea, SEA OF FAITH
• 5/19 Lee Welles, GAIA GIRL; Jane Dyer, COOKIES
• 5/12 Tom Juravich, CHAOS ON THE SHOP FLOOR; Roberta Isleib, FINAL FORE; Chris Pyle, EXTRADITION, POLITICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
• 5/5 John Horgan, science writer; Patricia Kleindienst, THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME
• 4/28 Louis Uchitelle, THE DISPOSABLE AMERICAN; Danielle Trussoni, FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH
• 4/21 Mark Klempner, THE HEART HAS REASONS; Molly Katzen and Dr. Walter Willet, EAST, DRINK AND LOSE WEIGHT
• 4/14 Lois Ahrens and Sabrina Jones, PRISONERS OF THE WARS ON DRUGS and the Real Cost of Prisons Project
• 4/7 Barry Werth, 31 DAYS; Mark Anderson, SHAKESPEARE BY ANOTHER NAME
• 3/31 Julia Alvarez, SAVING THE WORLD; James Green, DEATH IN THE HAYMARKET
• 3/24 Ann Jones, KABUL IN WINTER; Brandt Goldstein, STORMING THE COURT
• 3/17 Kevin O’Hara, LAST OF THE DONKEY PILGRIMS
• 3/10 Howard Friel and Dr. Harvey Lederman about avian flu
• 3/3 Justin Tussing, THE BEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD; Amy Sophia Marachinsky, ORACLE OF THE GRAIL CODE
• 2/24 Felice Yeskel, ECONOMIC APARTHEID
• 2/17 Dennis Watlington, CHASING AMERICA
• 2/10 Kiran Desai, INHERITANCE OF LOSS; and Kathy Kelly, OTHER LANDS HAVE DREAMS
• 2/3 Kate Michelman, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
• 1/27 Jacques Leslie, DEEP WATER
• 1/20 Esther Kaplan, WITH GOD ON THEIR SIDE & Fred Clarkson, talk2action.org
• 1/13 Ned Hallowell, DELIVERED FROM DISTRACTION; Margaret Lobenstine, THE RENAISSANCE SOUL
• 1/6 David Lenson, ON DRUGS

Writer’s Voice Guests in 2005

• 12/23 Jean Birdsall, THE PENDERWICKS and Elizabeth Baer, HAMMERED
• 12/16 Studs Terkel, AND THEY ALL SANG; Dr. Andrew Weil, HEALTHY AGING
• 12/9 editor Elise Paschen, POETRY SPEAKS TO CHILDREN 12/2 Carol Edelstein, THE DISAPPEARING LETTERS; and Nicholas Basbanes, EVERY BOOK ITS READER
• 11/25 novelist Marge Piercy, SEX WARS and excerpts from the WriteAngles conference
• 11/18 Native American storyteller Marge Bruchac; and Francesca and Daisy read Francesca’s story,”The Food Philosophe”
• 11/11 journalists Eesha Williams (GRASSROOTS JOURNALISM) and Karen Brown.
• 11/4 Jonathan Harr, THE STOLEN PAINTING
• 10/28 Maureen Corrigan, LEAVE ME ALONE, I’M READING; Stanley Wiater, DARK DREAMERS
• 10/21 Jonathan Kozol, THE SHAME OF THE NATION; Anne Farrow, Joel Lang & Jenifer Frank, COMPLICITY
• 10/14: Howard Zinn, VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; Robert Parker, SCHOOL DAYS
• 10/7: Tracy Kidder, MY DETACHMENT; and poet Wally Swist, THE SILENCE BETWEEN US.
• 9/30 Diane Wilson, AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN; and Bruce Watson, BREAD AND ROSES
• 9/23 Charles Mann, 1491: NEW REVELATIONS OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS
• 9/16 David Gessner, THE PROPHET OF DRY HILL; Ellen Bernstein, THE SPLENDOR OF CREATION
• 9/9 poet Nathalie Handal
• 9/2 Damali Ayo, HOW TO RENT A NEGRO
• 8/26 David Bollier, onthecommons.org; Holly Iglesias, NOW YOU SEE IT
• 8/19 Jennifer Nix, Editor-at-Large for Chelsea Green Publishing; and Annie Boutelle, BECOMING BONE
• 8/12 broadcast of MUSHROOM CLOUD: TALES OF THE ATOMIC AGE, sound documentary from Hearing Voices
• 8/5 Wesley Stace, MISFORTUNE; Sara Pirtle, AN OUTBREAK OF PEACE
• 7/29 playwright Nora Amin, ARAB; Ellie Meeropol and Michael C. White on the Stonecoast LRMFA program
• 7/22 Singer-songwriters Moonlight and Morningstar
• 7/15 poet Mark Strand; Ko Festival of Performance and playwright Lisa d’Amour
• 7/8 Writer’s Voice Anniversary Show
• 7/1 Victor Navasky, A MATTER OF OPINION and Josh Krugman
• 6/24 Michael Hiltzik, THE PLOT AGAINST SOCIAL SECURITY and poets Patrick Donnelly (THE CHARGE), Erin Murphy (SCIENCE OF DESIRE) and Gary Lilley (THE SUBSEQUENT BLUES)
• 6/17 Norton Juster, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH and John Bonifaz, WARRIOR KING: THE CASE FOR IMPEACHING GEORGE W. BUSH
• 6/10 Judy Ostrow, THE HOUSE THAT JILL BUILT
• 6/3 Patwant Singh, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WASHINGTON; Rachel Kuhn Daviau of ENCHANTED CIRCLE THEATER
• 5/27 Medea Benjamin, STOP THE NEXT WAR; Quang van Nguyen & Marjorie Pivar, FOURTH UNCLE IN THE MOUNTAIN
• 5/20 Barbara Bash, TRUE NATURE; Gail Thomas, NO SIMPLE WILDERNESS
• 5/13 Michael Sanders, FAMILIES OF THE VINE
• 5/6 Don Kroodsma, THE SINGING LIFE OF BIRDS
• 4/29 John Daniel, ROGUE RIVER JOURNAL; Hallie Ephron, co-author of GUILT
• 4/22/05 Fergus Bordewich, BOUND FOR CANAAN; David S. Reynolds, JOHN BROWN: ABOLITIONIST
• 4/15/05 Michel Warschawski, ON THE BORDER; Liza Trahan, WALKING WITH GHOSTS.
• 4/8/05 Vyvyane Loh, BREAKING THE TONGUE; Michael Parenti, THE ASSASINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR
• 4/1/05 Jim Kaplan, THE BOSTON RED SOX
• 3/25/05 Bob Flaherty, PUFF, A NOVEL and Izzy Gesell, PLAYING ALONG
• 3/18/05: Bob Ross, SLAVES TO FASHION and Margaret Bruchac, 1621: A NEW LOOK AT THANKSGIVING
• 3/11/05: Kerry Buckley, A PLACE CALLED PARADISE and Barry Werth, THE SCARLET PROFESSOR
• 3/4/05: Ekueme Michael Thelwell, READY FOR REVOLUTION and Andy Caponigro, THE MIRACLE OF THE BREATH
• 2/25/05: David Bollier, BRAND NAME BULLIES and Arthur Kinney, SHAKESPEARE’S WEB
• 2/18/05: John Hanson Mitchell, LOOKING FOR MR. GILBERT 2/11/05: Jennifer Haigh, BAKER TOWERS
• 2/4/05: Sandra Postel, RIVERS FOR LIFE; Dina Friedman (works-in-progress)
• 1/25/05: Slate Roof Poetry Collective
• 1/18/05: David Anthony Durham, PRIDE OF CARTHAGE; Johnnetta Cole, GENDER TALKS
• 1/5/05: Bill MacLeish, UPHILL WITH ARCHIE & THE DAY BEFORE AMERICA and John Perkins, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN

Writer’s Voice Guests in 2004

• 12/28/04: Frederick Clarkson, ETERNAL HOSTILITY 12/21/04: Janet Aalfs, poet laureate of Northampton, Mass
• 12/14/04: Patrick Donnelly, poet; VOICES FROM INSIDE, prison poetry project
• 12/7/04: Gretel Ehrlich, THE FUTURE OF ICE
• 11/30/04: Jim Ault, SPIRIT AND FLESH
• 11/23/04: Diane Gilliam Fisher, KETTLE BOTTOM; Ken Haeddrich, PIE
• 11/9/04: Augusten Burroughs, MAGICAL THINKING
• 11/8/04: Jon Katz, THE DOGS OF BEDLAM FARM
• 11/2/04: Michael Klare, BLOOD AND OIL
• 10/26/04: Howard Friel, THE RECORD OF THE PAPER
• 10/19/04: Aaron Lansky, OUTWITTING HISTORY
• 10/12/04: Patricia Stacey, THE BOY WHO LOVED WINDOWS
• 10/5/04: Archer Mayor, THE SURROGATE THIEF
• 9/28/04: Jane Brox, CLEARING LAND
• 9/14/04: Jim Hightower, BUSHWHACKED
• 9/9/04 & 12/7/04: Martin Espada, NOW THE DEAD WILL DANCE THE MAMBO
• 9/2/04: Tracy Daniels, Literary Publicist; Patricia Lee Lewis, Patchwork Farm Writing Retreats
• 8/25/04: Mordicai Gerstein, THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS; Holly Black & Tony di Terlizzi, THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
• 8/18/04: Jayne Pearl, KIDS AND MONEY
• 8/11/04: Sally Brady, Literary Agent; Jeanne Yocum, ghostwriter
• 8/04/04: Robert Reich, REASON
• 7/28/04: Chris Rohmann, A WORLD OF IDEAS
• 7/21/04: Bosley Wilder, poet and journalist
• 7/14/04: Sabrina Hamilton, Ko Theater Festival
• 7/07/04: Shel Horowitz, GRASSROOTS MARKETING