Articles Tagged ‘ pulitzer_prize ’

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. Bush’s Law.

May 6th, 2008

The news today about a possible war impending between Georgia and Russia is prefigured in our first interview: host Francesca Rheannon talks with energy security expert Michael Klare about the dangerous new global order of energy politics — winners and losers, flashpoints of conflict, and what it means for democracy and the environment. His book [...]

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 [...]

Richard Ford and Scott Ritter

January 15th, 2007

Francesca interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford about writing and his new novel, THE LAY OF THE LAND. Also, Scott Ritter on his book, Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change.