John Kessel, BAUM PLAN FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE

August 1st, 2008

Speculative Fiction takes on gender relations, and more…
Host Francesca Rheannon speaks first with speculative fiction writer John Kessel, who makes thought experiments about real issues by placing them in imaginary contexts. (…)

 
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Podcast 81: Climate Change, Past, Present and Future

August 1st, 2008

The current climate crisis isn’t the first time human beings have faced global climate change. (…)

 
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Podcast 78: Melody Petersen

July 8th, 2008

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with reporter and author Melody Petersen about OUR DAILY MEDS. (…)

 
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Melody Petersen, OUR DAILY MEDS

July 4th, 2008

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with reporter and author Melody Petersen about OUR DAILY MEDS. (…)

Melody Petersen, OUR DAILY MEDS

June 23rd, 2008

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with reporter and author Melody Petersen about OUR DAILY MEDS: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. (…)

Podcast 75: Ta-Nehisi Coates, THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE

June 15th, 2008

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his memoir, THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE. (…)

 
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Poet Frannie Lindsey, LAMB

June 12th, 2008

Frannie Lindsey won the 2006 Perugia Press Award for her second poetry volume, LAMB. It was also the runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. (…)