March 20th, 2008
Greg Palast, investigative reporter for the BBC, tells us why he thinks the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke when it did — and what federal prosecutors were trying to keep hidden from the public about the bank bailout by taking Spitzer down. (…)
March 14th, 2008
We talk with biofeedback pioneer Les Fehmi about how to harness attention to focus the mind and improve productivity and mood. (…)
March 11th, 2008
We talk with historian Eric Weitz about WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy. We explore Germany’s incredible creative ferment and innovation during the period between the two world wars. (…)
February 28th, 2008
We talk with John Elder Robison about his wonderful memoir, LOOK ME IN THE EYE: My Life With Asperger’s. (…)
February 21st, 2008
We talk with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina about MR. AND MRS. PRINCE: How An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. (…)
February 15th, 2008
We talk with novelist Kevin Patterson about CONSUMPTION, a novel of the Canadian Arctic and the tension between the old and the new in the lives of its Inuit people. (…)
February 8th, 2008
Geraldine Brooks tells us about PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, a novel based on the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Leaf through the Haggadah’s images on line. (…)
