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

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. (…)

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. (…)

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

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. (…)

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

 

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We talk with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina about MR. AND MRS. PRINCE: How An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. (…)

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. (…)