Mark Lamster talks with host Francesca Rheannon about the great Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ career as an unofficial diplomat for the Spanish Crown. And mystery writer S.J. Parris tells us about Renaissance scientist Giordano Bruno’s visit to Oxford in 1583. She spins a murder mystery around the visit and around Bruno’s mission as a spy for the English Crown.
Articles Tagged ‘ poet ’
Women Writing Powerfully About Women’s Lives
September 15th, 2009
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie talks about her stunning collection of stories THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK. And poet Honor Moore reads from and tells us about POEMS FROM THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT. Our guests use fiction (Adichie) and poetry (Moore) to evoke the lives of women with power, honesty and grace.
Amy Seidl and Nikki Giovanni
April 23rd, 2009
We talk with Amy Seidl about EARLY SPRING: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World. And poet Nikki Giovanni introduces us to HIP HOP SPEAKS TO CHILDREN: A Celebration of Poetry With A Beat.
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 Lovelace, SCATTERSHOT and Maggie Jackson, DISTRACTED
August 23rd, 2008
We talk with David Lovelace about his memoir, SCATTERSHOT: My Bipolar Family. And Maggie Jackson tells us about DISTRACTED: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Nicholson Baker’s HUMAN SMOKE and more…
April 28th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Nicholson Baker about his acclaimed new book, .
In a departure from his usual genre, fiction, Baker turns his eye for telling detail to an examination of the cavalier disregard for the human consequences of war by leaders on all sides of the conflict. We hear about how Churchill’s warmongering and [...]
Novelist Geraldine Brooks and Poet Laureate Al Young
February 11th, 2008
We interview Geraldine Brooks about PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, a novel based on the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah. Also, California Poet Laureate Al Young tells us about his new book-and-cd set, SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES.
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