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Mary Cowhey & Enchanted Circle Theater
We talk with teacher Mary Cowhey about her book, BLACK ANTS AND BUDDHISTS: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades.
Also, a sneak preview of The Enchanted Circle Theater’s SKINNER SERVANTS TOUR and playwrights Priscilla Hellweg and Rachel Kuhn Daviau talk about the play.
Simon Winchester and Dylan Schaffer
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Francesca interviews Simon Winchester about [amazon-product text=”A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: America And The Great California Earthquake Of 1906″ type=”text”]0060572000[/amazon-product]. Also, Dylan Schaffer talks about his funny and poignant memoir, [amazon-product text=”LIFE, DEATH AND BIALYS: A Father/Son Baking Story” type=”text”]1596911921[/amazon-product].
Richard Ford and Scott Ritter
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford talks about [amazon-product text=”THE LAY OF THE LAND” type=”text”]0679776672[/amazon-product]. Also, Scott Ritter, on [amazon-product text=”Target Iran: The Truth About the White Houses Plans for Regime Change” type=”text”]1560259361[/amazon-product]. Continue reading
Part Two: Scott Ritter
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on TARGET: IRAN. We talk to him about US plans for war with Iran.
Podcast of NEA Chairman Dana Gioia
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We talk with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia about poetry, the state of reading in America, and what government can do to promote literature. We also play a selection from POETRY OUT LOUD, a CD produced by the NEA and the Poetry Foundation. On our show for broadcast, we read Jour de l’An, an excerpt from a story about New Years Day in Provence by Writers Voice host, Francesca Rheannon, but are unable to include it in this podcast, since it has copyrighted music embedded, and the musician complained. (Some say rebroadcast on the Web from licensed radio broadcast is legal, but WV prefers to take this portion of the show down). But you can read the whole piece here — and get the story’s delicious Internet Apple Crisp recipe! It was a “hit gastronomique” in Provence.
Eve Ensler: Insecure At Last
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Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler talks with host Francesca Rheannon about her new book, INSECURE AT LAST: Losing It In Our Security Obsessed World. In it Ensler asks whether our obsession with security is making us more fearful than ever. Part One of this week’s podcast.
Peter Barnes: Capitalism 3.0
Working Assets cofounder Peter Barnes says capitalism needs a new operating system that will protect our common wealth as citizens of the planet: nature, culture and community. He tells us about it in a conversation about his book, CAPITALISM 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. To read or download the book for free, go to Barnes’ blog at www.onthecommons.org. Part Two of this week’s podcast.
Studs Terkel and more
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In Part Two of this week’s podcast, we play an interview we first aired last year with the great “Eclectic Disc Jockey”, Studs Terkel. He joined us for a music-filled interview about his last book, AND THEY ALL SANG, which has just been re-issued in paperback. We also hear two poets from Northampton, Massachusetts read from their work: Carol Edelstein (THE DIASPPEARING LETTERS), and Gail Thomas (NO SIMPLE WILDERNESS).
The interview with Studs Terkel is the second half of the show. In the first half of the show we interview author and poet Richard Michelson and poet Maxine Kumin.
Richard Michelson & Maxine Kumin
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In Part One of this week’s show, we talk with author and poet Richard Michelson about growing up Jewish in an African-American neighborhood in New York and his books for children coming out of that experience. We talk about two of them: [amazon-product text=”HAPPY FEET” type=”text”]B001DZ41JC[/amazon-product] and [amazon-product text=”TOO YOUNG FOR YIDDISH” type=”text”]0881061182[/amazon-product].
We also talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin in this excerpt from a previously aired interview about her latest collection of poems, [amazon-product text=”JACK, AND OTHER NEW POEMS” type=”text”]039332852X[/amazon-product].
And we air an excerpt from a 2005 interview with Studs Terkel on part two of this show.
Rob Walch, TRICKS OF THE PODCASTING MASTERS
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Writer’s Voice broadcast on WMUA 91.1 FM on December 15, 2006. Podcast pioneer Rob Walch tells us the TRICKS OF THE PODCASTING MASTERS.
Everybody’s heard about podcasting, but few really know what it is—or how they can use it for fun or to promote their business or career. Podcast pioneer Rob Walch (founder of Podcast411) tells us how to do it well. (Interview audio only.)
Peter Bowerman, THE WELL-FED SELF PUBLISHER
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Peter Bowerman talks with us live about [amazon-product text=”The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living” type=”text”]0967059860[/amazon-product].
The bottom line holds ever more draconian sway over the publishing industry, and that makes it ever harder for writers to get published. But the Internet is opening a new way: self-publishing. Bowerman talks about how the Web fosters niche-marketing and buzz over a long period — and how that can turn authors into “well-fed self-publishers”.
Rob Walch web exclusive
A web-exclusive segment from our interview with Podcast411‘s Rob Walch. He talks about copyright issues, podcasting equipment and the possibilities (and difficulties) of making money from podcasting.
Writer’s Voice Host Wins Prestigious Journalism Award
In November 2006, Writer’s Voice producer and host Francesca Rheannon was one this year’s two winners of the prestigious Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Issues in the broadcast journalism category (the other winner was Frontline’s report, The Meth Epidemic). Rheannon won the award for the five part news series she reported for public radio station 88.5 WFCR, “Voices of HIV.” Continue reading
Hear a Clip! Scott Ritter on Target:Iran
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Listen to the clip from our upcoming interview with Scott Ritter about TARGET: IRAN.