Podcast | Writer's Voice

Paolo Bacigalupi talks about his new thriller, The Water Knife. It’s about the fight over water supplies in the American Southwest that erupts when a climate-driven mega-drought hits the region.

Then, we re-air portions of our 2011 interview with Bacigalupi about his sci fi novel for young adults,Â Shipbreaker. Also set in the climate-changed world of the near future, it takes place in Florida in a time of sea level rise. Continue reading →

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We spend most of the hour with Paul Ham talking about his new book, HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath. We also listen back to an excerpt from last year’s interview with Naomi Klein about her book, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Capitalism vs The Climate. It’s just out in paperback from Simon and Schuster. Continue reading →

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Translator Peter Filkins talks about the third novel in German Jewish writer H.G. Adler’s trilogy about the Holocaust, The Wall. Later, we re-play a previous interview with Filkins about his translation of the first novel in the trilogy, The Journey.

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Joseph Luzzi talks about his moving new memoir and contemplation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, In A Dark Wood. Then, we hear some voices from the recent marathon reading of Melville’s Moby Dick put on by the legendary Sag Harbor NY bookstore, Canio’s. Continue reading →

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Frances Jensen talks about her book, The Teenage Brain:Â A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults . And marijuana is being used to successfully treat some illnesses. But it’s not so healthy for the developing brain. Addiction psychiatrist Kevin Hill tells us about risks and benefits of pot. His new book is Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth About The World’s Most Popular Weed. Continue reading →

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Rosemary SullivanÂ talks about her extraordinary new biography of Svetlana Stalin,Â Stalin’s Daughter (Harper Collins, June 2015.)Â

Then, Russian Á©migrÁ© Elena GorokhovaÂ explores the inner divide that splits the soul of the immigrant inÂ her new memoir Russian TattooÂ (Simon and Schuster, 2015). Continue reading →

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Hannah Nordhaus, author of The Beekepper’s Lament,Â talks about her latest book, a wonderful history/slash memoir of her ancestor Julia Staub. It’s called American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest.

And if apple pie is a symbol of America, apples may be a symbol of New England. Russell Steven Powell talks about his book, Apples of New England: A User’s Guide. Continue reading →

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David Flusfeder discusses his novel, John The Pupil. It’s about a medieval journey that prefigures the Renaissance era to come. And then another work of fiction that reimagines a historical figure:Â urban philosopher David Kishik talks about his book, The Manhattan Project. It imagines what Walter Benjamin would have written about New York had he succeeded in escaping to the US from Nazi-dominated Europe. Continue reading →

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Tom Butler of the Foundation for Deep EcologyÂ talks about a gorgeous — and disturbing — new coffee table book of photojournalism, Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot.

And women mystery writers have gone from being ignored to being stars of the genre. We talk with mystery writer Sara Paretsky about women’s changing position in the genre and about her own socially conscious mystery writing. Then we congratulate Elizabeth Kolbert on her Pulitzer Prize for The Sixth Extinction. Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Podcast

Sci-fi Imagines Climate Change: Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WATER KNIFE & SHIPBREAKER

Saving The New York Public Library

Banking On The Extinction Of Wild Tigers

Artists, Development Wars and Murder on Long Island’s North Fork

The Real Story Behind The Atom Bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Memory of the Survivor: Peter Filkins on H.G. Adler’s THE WALL and THE JOURNEY

Greece On The Brink & Dollar Democracy: James Angelos & Peter Mathews

Dante & Melville: Great Lit As Guide For Living

Indra Devi and The Goddess Pose

The Promise And Perils Of The Teenage Brain

EmigrÁ©sÂ from The USSR: Svetlana Stalin & Elena Gorokhova

Hannah Nordhaus, AMERICAN GHOST & Russell Powell, APPLES OF NEW ENGLAND

Reimagining History: Medieval & Modern

Why Diets Don’t Work And Supplements May Be Bad For You

Overpopulation: Ecological Elephant In The Room?