Journalist Chris Hedges talks about EMPIRE OF ILLUSION: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. He says Americans are in thrall to a culture of narcissism, revenge, and fake “happiness” that is destroying our democracy — and our power to connect genuinely with others. And former Army intelligence officer and constitutional scholar Chris Pyle says the Bush Administration is GETTING AWAY WITH TORTURE. He tells us about secret government, war crimes, and the rule of law.
Articles Tagged ‘ Nonfiction ’
Meth Epidemic In America’s Heartland and Thoreau’s Bad Day
September 29th, 2009
We interview Nick Reding about how the methamphetamine epidemic is eating away at rural America. His book is METHLAND: The Death and Life of an American Small Town. And John Pipkin tells us about his debut novel WOODSBURNER. It’s about a very bad day in the life of Henry David Thoreau: when he started a forest fire that burned three hundred acres. Pipkin uses the fire as a starting point to examine the destruction human passions can cause.
Migraines and Madness: The Upsides and Downsides
September 22nd, 2009
Andrew Levy talks about A BRAIN WIDER THAN THE SKY: A Migraine Diary. Weaving his personal story together with reflections on science, art, history and spirituality, he gives us a surprising portrait of this malady. And David Lovelace tells us why he is “proud to be bipolar” despite the troubles the disorder has brought him. His memoir is SCATTERSHOT: My Bipolar Family.
Food Security and Insecurity
August 6th, 2009
We talk with journalist Sasha Abramsky about his new book BREADLINE USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It. And sustainability expert Robin Wheeler talks about her book, FOOD SECURITY FOR THE FAINT AT HEART.
Stephan Faris, FORECAST & Leonard Nimoy
July 2nd, 2009
We interview journalist Stephan Faris about his book, FORECAST, THE CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE. We also air an archived interview with actor Leonard Nimoy about his work as a photographer.
Freedom and Democracy
June 18th, 2009
Diane Wei Liang talks about her memoir of Tienanmin Square, LAKE WITH NO NAME. And we talk with Anthony Lake about the First Amendment and FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT WE HATE.
Sustainable Gardening
May 26th, 2009
We talk with Toby Hemenway about his updated , Carleen Madigan tells us how to turn a lawn into a BACKYARD HOMESTEAD, and Patricia Klindienst (THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME) talks about three gardens of immigrant Americans in this excerpt from our archived interview with her.
Gail Hornstein, AGNES’ JACKET
May 21st, 2009
Francesca Rheannon interviews Gail Hornstein about AGNES’ JACKET: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness.
College Rip-Off
May 11th, 2009
Is the higher education industry is sacrificing students to the bottom line? We look at the issue from two angles: student debt and whether students are getting what they pay for at four year colleges. Host Francesca Rheannon interviews Alan Michael Collinge about THE STUDENT LOAN SCAM, and April Norhanian about her book College Is For Suckers: The FIRST College Guide You Should Read.
Pandemic Flu, Thrity Umrigar, and Jeff Sharlet
May 5th, 2009
We talk with writer Howard Friel and Dr. Harvey Lederman in this rebroadcast of a 2006 interview about avian flu. Also, Thrity Umrigar on her new novel, THE WEIGHT OF HEAVEN. And Jeff Sharlet talks about the crusade for a Christian military.
Natalie Goldberg and Ann Armbrecht
April 27th, 2009
Natalie Goldberg interviewed about new book, Old Friend from Far Away. And anthropologist Ann Armbrecht tells us about her memoir of Nepal, Thin Places. Christian McEwen is guest co-host.
Snark and Civility
March 24th, 2009
Francesca interviews film critic David Denby of the New Yorker about SNARK: It’s Mean, It’s Personal and It’s Ruining Our Conversation. And P.M Forni tells us about THE CIVILITY SOLUTION: What To Do When People Are Rude.
St. Patrick’s Day with Alphie McCourt, and more.
March 17th, 2009
Alphie McCourt talks about his memoir, A LONG STONE’S THROW and we talk to Bill Martin and Beverly Swerling of Agent Research and Evaluation about the do’s and don’t of finding a literary agent.
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