Archive for the ‘This Week’ Category

This Week: The Humane Metropolis; Stegner and the American West

April 3rd, 2008

We talk with urban geographer Rutherford Platt about how to make cities that are sustainable and a pleasure to live in. (…)

This Week: POETRY EXPLANDED and BEYOND GENOCIDE

March 28th, 2008

We get a jump on Poetry Month (April) by talking with editor Rebekah Presson Mosby about a new edition of a much-hailed anthology. It’s called POETRY SPEAKS EXPANDED. (…)

This Week: Journalism Special: Greg Palast on the Timing of the Spitzer Scandal…and Narrative Journalism

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. (…)

This Week: The Open Focus Brain

March 14th, 2008

We talk with biofeedback pioneer Les Fehmi about how to harness attention to focus the mind and improve productivity and mood. (…)

This Week: Eric Weitz’s Weimar Germany

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. (…)

This Week: John Elder Robison talks about life with Asperger’s

February 28th, 2008

We talk with John Elder Robison about his wonderful memoir, LOOK ME IN THE EYE: My Life With Asperger’s. (…)

 
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This Week: Slavery and Out From It

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. (…)