Julian Levinson reads from his book Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Cultur” (2008) published by Indiana University Press. We talk about Walt Whitman, Emma Lazarus and The Rolling Stones. We also talk about the origins of this project– and why the introduction begins with this from Allen Ginsberg’s America: “America I still haven’t told […]
David Sedaris came to town with his essay collection When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Little, Brown 2008). In this conversation, we talk about the wonders of the public library, Tobias Wolff and Matt Damon, and fact checking. We also talk about balancing humor, unstable fables and little known ant facts. *archives: taped June 9, 2008 *photo credit:
Hear author, educator, and environmentalist BillMcKibben. “The Bill McKibben Reader” is out this spring from HoltPaperbacks. We’ll talk about ideas from his book “Deep Economy: The Wealth ofCommunities and the Durable Future” as well as 350.org, his project toencourage a global grassroots campaign on climate change. Also we’ll talk about community radio, the predicament of “fighting,not writing” and
Randall Kennedy reads from Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (Pantheon Books 2008). We talk about the power of language and Clarence Thomas as a case study. Download Audio
