Writers Voice with Francesca Rheannon | A radio book show and podcast featuring interviews with authors, poets, playwrights and more

We talk about Harry Houdini, the great escape artist, master magician — and possibly international spy — with Larry Sloman, co-author with William Kalush of The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero. (…)

 

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Ever since her ground-breaking book, DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET, Frances Moore Lappé has been showing how each of us can change the world for the better. (…)

We talk with Les Leopold about his terrific biography of labor leader and environmentalist Tony Mazzochi: THE MAN WHO HATED WORK AND LOVED LABOR. (…)

British environmental journalist George Monbiot talks about global warming and what can be done about it. (…)

Bestselling authors Dennis Lehane (MYSTIC RIVER, CORONADO) and Julia Glass (THREE JUNES, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER) talk to us about writing and their work. (…)

We talk with Chinese born author Xiaolu Guo about her stunning new novel, A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS. A Writer’s Voice Favorite. (…)

We talk with independent war correspondent Dahr Jamail about BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. (…)