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In honor of International Women’s Day, we talk with Marge Piercy about [amazon-product text=”Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York” type=”text”]0060789875[/amazon-product], her novel of the first American feminist movement.
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Psychologist David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child, talks about THE POWER OF PLAY: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children. Also, Patty Dann talks about THE GOLDFISH WENT ON VACATION: A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth about It).
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Our guests are Ann Jones, author of KABUL IN WINTER: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan; and Mark Levine tells us about THE FINE PRINT OF SELF-PUBLISHING.
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John Dickerson talks about why the White House Press correspondents failed to ask the Bush Administration tough questions about the Iraq War. Dickerson covered the White House for Time magazine. He made news himself when he asked Bush whether he thought he’d made any mistakes during his administration.
You can listen to the full interview here.
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We talk with Slate Magazine’s chief political correspondent, John Dickerson, about [amazon-product text=”ON HER TRAIL: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News’ First Woman Star” type=”text”]0743287835[/amazon-product]. We also find out about writing romance novels from Linda Cardillo, author of [amazon-product text=”DANCING ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS” type=”text”]0373654030[/amazon-product].
Web Extra: John Dickerson talks about why the White House Press correspondents failed to ask the Bush Administration tough questions about the Iraq War.
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Novelist Ann Hood talks about THE KNITTING CIRCLE and Free Press’ Craig Aaron discusses media reform.
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.
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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].
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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
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on TARGET: IRAN. We talk to him about US plans for war with Iran.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.