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Chinese born author Xiaolu Guo, A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS.
Also, native American storyteller Marge Bruchac on the real story of Thanksgiving.
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Jewish Book Fair Authors
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We talk about to two writers featured at the 2007 Springfield Jewish Book Fair: David M. Gross, author of FAST COMPANY: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy and Alana Newhouse on A LIVING LENS: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward.
Supported by a grant from the Jewish Arts & Culture Initiative of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
Alan Weisman & Katharine Weber
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Alan Weisman talks about his acclaimed book THE WORLD WITHOUT US.
Also, Katharine Weber tells us about her novel, TRIANGLE. Katharine Weber was a featured author at the 2007 Springfield (Massachusetts) Jewish Book Fair.
Thanks to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for supporting our series of authors featured at the 2007 Jewish Book Fair.
Leonard Nimoy’s THE FULL BODY PROJECT
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Leonard Nimoy talks to us about his new book, THE FULL BODY PROJECT, as well as photography, acting, and being (and not being) Mr. Spock.
Also, we talk with Leslea Newman and Susan Stinson about body image and the Full Body Project.
Junot Diaz, BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO and Laraine Herring on writing
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Literary sensation Junot Diaz talks about his acclaimed novel, THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO. Also, Laraine Herring on writing. Her book is WRITING BEGINS WITH THE BREATH: Embodying Your Authentic Voice.
TAJ MAHAL and some final Indian Tales
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Diana Preston tells us about TAJ MAHAL: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire. She co-wrote the book with her husband, Michael Preston.
And the final episode in our series on Jaime de Angulo’s INDIAN TALES, thanks to the Pacifica Archives. Also, Native American storyteller tells the story of corn and takes us on a tour the traces of Native peoples who lived in Northampton, Massachusetts.
ETHICAL MARKETS and more INDIAN TALES
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We talk with futurist Hazel Henderson about ETHICAL MARKETS: Growing the Green Economy, co-written with Simran Sethi.
Also, we continue our month-long series on Jaime de Angulo’s INDIAN TALES, thanks to the Pacifica Archives and Writer’s Voice associate producer, Michael Pollitt.
IAMBICS OF NEWFOUNDLAND and more INDIAN TALES
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We talk with nature writer Robert Finch about THE IAMBICS OF NEWFOUNDLAND: Notes from an Unknown Shore.
And we continue our special series of readings from Jaime de Angulo’s INDIAN TALES.
The Most Famous Man In America
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We talk with historian Debby Applegate about her acclaimed biography of 19th century evangelist of the “Gospel of Love” Henry Ward Beecher, THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA.
Also, an excerpt from our archived interview with Marge Piercy about her novel, SEX WARS, in which Beecher is a character.
Jacqueline Sheehan and Sophie Freud
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We talk with former therapist and now best-selling author Jacqueline Sheehan about her novel, LOST AND FOUND. A widowed psychologist finds the path to her own recovery from grief with the help of a black labrador retriever with a healing touch.
Also, Sigmund Freud’s granddaughter Sophie Freud tells us about about her memoir, LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE FREUD FAMILY. We hear about her childhood in pre-war Austria, her famous grandfather, and her dysfunctional family of origin. Now a retired social worker living in New England, Freud weaves together diaries, letters and memoir to reconstruct her flight from Nazi-occupied Austria, the agonizing wait for a visa from Nice, France, and her eventual escape from a Europe embroiled in war.
SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION; also, Anita Shreve
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Celebrating Poetry Month, we talk with Mark Eleveld about SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION REDUX, a book-and-CD collection of verse from many poets, in the oral tradition.
And Anita Shreve talks about her new novel, BODY-SURFING.
Eesha Williams and Sefi Atta
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Eesha Williams talks about his updated GRASSROOTS JOURNALISM: A Practical Manual. It’s just come out in paperback from Dollars and Sense Books.
And Nigerian novelist Sefi Atta talks about her EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME. It was awarded the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
John Dickerson; Linda Cardillo
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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.
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
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.