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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.
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We talk with novelist and journalist Francisco Goldman about his acclaimed non-fiction book, THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER: WHO KILLED THE BISHOP.
And poet Lynn Thompson reads from BEG NO PARDON, which won this year’s Perugia Press Award.
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Clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine joins us to talk about his book, SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMIC: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy.
Also, a preview of a conversation with George Monbiot we’ll be airing later in the season about his book, HEAT: How to Stop the Planet from Burning.
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We’d love Writer’s Voice listeners to call in pledges during the show, but anytime during that week would be great. And here are some great hardcover book premiums we’re offering. To find out more, tune in during the show on Friday, November 2 to pledge.
Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Dahr Jamail.
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, And The People Who Fight Back. Amy Goodman,David Goodman (autographed)
Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State. Norman Solomon
Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World. Eve Ensler
The Foreign Correspondant. Novel, Alan Furst
Taj Mahal Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire. Diana Preston and Michael Preston.
Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment. Jacques Leslie
Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond. David Gessner.
A Matter Of Opinion; Victor Navasky
Stealing Democracy: The New Politics Of Voter Suppression. Spencer Overton
A Country That Works. Getting America Back on Track. Andy Stern.
Every Book Its Reader. Nicholas Basbanes
Friendly Fire: The Remarkable Story of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq, Rescued by an Italian Secret Service Agent, and Shot by U.S. F. by Giuliana Sgrena
Before The Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism. Bruce Ackerman
Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time; Michael Downing
Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President–and Won; Brandt Goldstein
Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery; Gloria Steinem,Jesse Sage,Liora Kasten
With Liberty and Justice For All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose; Kate Michelman
Chasing America: A Memoir, Dennis Watlington
Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream. Bruce Watson.
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We have an in-depth conversation with author John J. Clayton about his wonderful short story collection, WRESTLING WITH ANGELS: New and Collected Stories and he reads from several of his favorite stories in the book. It deals with universal themes of loss and spiritual redemption, acceptance, fading ideals, as well as with contemporary struggles of Jewish life and family. Clayton has been writing fiction since 1969 and teaches modern literature and fiction writing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He’s won the O’Henry and Pushcart Prizes for short stories as well as a place in Best American Short Stories anthologies.
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Middle East expert Vali Nasr talks about THE SHIA REVIVAL: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future in this engrossing interview with Francesca Rheannon.
Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr recently went to work for the Obama Adminstration’s Richard Holbrooke as a special representative on Af-Pak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) affairs. We talked to him in 2007 about his book The Shia Revival. It’s about how conflicts within Islam — notably the Shia and Sunni sects and the respective countries they dominate — “will shape the future”. He was just featured in the September 28, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, in an article by George Packer about Holbrooke, “The Last Mission.”
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He covers the history of the Shia-Sunni split and says the Shia’s rise (aided by the Bush Administration’s misadventure in Iraq and destruction of Saddam’s Sunni dictatorship) encompasses Lebanon and Syria through the Persian Gulf to Iraq and Iran, and finally Pakistan and India.
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We spend the hour live with Alan Snitow, co-author of THIRST: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water.
Also, local organizer Joanne Sunshower talks about efforts to stop Nestle from coming to Montague, Massachusetts.
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We talk with dean of the British environmental movement Mayer Hillman about THE SUICIDAL PLANET: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe. He co-authored the book with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan. Also, David Gershon of the Empowerment Institute tells us about his LOW CARBON DIET: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds.
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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.
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Environmental activist and green economy imagineer Paul Hawken talks about BLESSED UNREST: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Co-hosted with Corporate Watchdog Radio’s Bill Baue.
Also, Michael Shuman, author of SMALL MART REVOLUTION, talks about his post on food miles on the blog, The Ethicurian.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We talk with Beatrice Hohenegger about LIQUID JADE: The Story of Tea From East to West.
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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.