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Bill DeYoung on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:34:33 +0000

Noted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses and signs his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN

Lynn Waddell on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:38:30 +0000

Lynn Waddell has had a diverse writing career. Based in the Tampa Bay area, she’s covered major Florida news stories for national publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Beast.com and NPR.com. She has appeared on MSNBC and the Oxygen Network’s true crime series “Snapped,” and been a guest on radio talk shows throughout the United States.

Her first book Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles is an offbeat tome that takes readers inside some of the state’s most eclectic and daring worlds. University Press of Florida plans to release Fringe Florida on Sept. 17, 2013. Discounted pre-order is available on Amazon.com.

She has written for state and national travel magazines, worked as a field producer for a Paris news crew, and researched for a major motion picture.

Jeff Klinkenberg on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:42:19 +0000

Jeff Klinkenberg, who writes about Florida culture for the St. Petersburg Times, is the author of the book collection of essays, Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators, published by University Press of Florida. Previous anthologies, Seasons of Real Florida and Dispatches from the Land of Flowers, have been best sellers.

Born in 1949, Klinkenberg grew up in Miami and began exploring the Florida Keys and the Everglades as a small boy. He started working at The Miami News when he was 16 and became a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. He’s in the UF Journalism College’s Hall of Fame.

He has worked at the South’s largest newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, since 1977. His column is called Real Florida.

Elizabeth Winder on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:48:23 +0000

Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar.
In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle’s annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankee game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath’s words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work, that ultimately changed the course of her life.

Rick Kilby on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:59:58 +0000

Rick Kilby
Although historians have long debunked the myth of the conquistador’s search for the Fountain of Youth,Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de Leon and Florida's Magical Waters (University Press of Florida; $14.95) shows how myth became inextricably tied to the image of the Sunshine State. Featuring reproductions of eye-catching postcards, vintage advertisements, vibrant photos, and other “Ponceabilia,” the book reveals how Florida itself has been transformed into a veritable Fountain of Youth. Kilby, president of Kilby Creative, is a graphic designer.

Bill Ayers on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:03:03 +0000

William Charles "Bill" Ayers retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a former Chicago community organizer and voice for urban educational reform A former leader in the counterculture movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Known for his 1960s radical activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama.

Jennifer Baumgardner onThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:06:38 +0000

Jennifer Baumgardner is a writer, activist, filmmaker, and lecturer whose work explores abortion, sex, bisexuality, rape, single parenthood, and women’s power. She is the Executive Director/Publisher at The Feminist
Baumgardner grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and attended Lawrence University in Appleton,Wisconsin, graduating in 1992. While at Lawrence University she helped organize “Guerrilla Theater,” a feminist group on campus, and started an alternative newspaper called The Otherthat focused on issues of women’s liberation. She moved to New York City after graduation and in 1993 began working as an unpaid intern for Ms. magazine. By 1997 she had become the youngest editor at Ms.

James W. Hall on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:10:09 +0000

James W. Hall is the author of 18 novels. Thirteen of which, like his most recent Going Dark, (December, 2013), feature a hardcore loner named Thorn, who makes a meager living tying bonefish flies. Thorn, and his private eye pal, Sugarman, have teamed up in a dozen books to thwart animal smugglers, cruise ship hijackers, rogue medical experimenters, and other assorted villains. For a man who simply wants to be left alone to contemplate the island light and sweet sea breezes of Key Largo, Thorn has been drawn into a long string of adventures to right wrongs and avenge the deaths of his friends, relatives and lovers and has taken innumerable gashes and wounds and scars in the process.
Hall’s non-fiction work includes Hot Damn! a collection of personal essays he wrote for the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel’s Sunshine Magazine, as well as some he wrote for the Washington Post and The Miami Herald. His most recent non-fiction effort is Hit Lit (Random House) which is an analysis of twelve of the most commercially successful novels of the last century and the dozen features those books have in common.

Joshua Safran on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:13:21 +0000

JOSHUA SAFRAN is an author, attorney, speaker, and occasional rabbi, and was featured in the award-winning documentary CRIME AFTER CRIME, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and had its television debut as part of The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)’s Documentary Film Club. He is a nationally recognized champion for women’s rights and a zealous advocate for survivors of domestic violence and the wrongfully imprisoned. For his work, he has received national media coverage and numerous awards.

Jung Chang on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:16:59 +0000

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British University. Jung Chang lives in London and teaches the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.

Michael Bronski on ThirtyFour-50

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:20:20 +0000

Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.
A professor at Dartmouth College, he currently teaches in the women's and gender studies department, and also teaches courses in LGBT history and Jewish studies at both Dartmouth and Harvard University.
A Queer History of the United States won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Stonewall Book Award in 2012. He also previously won two Lambda Literary Awards as an editor of anthologies, in 1997 for Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex and in 2004 for Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps

Nura Maznavi on ThirtyFour 50

Wed, 14 May 2014 16:38:58 +0000

Nura Maznavi, along with Ayesha Mattu, gathered stories for their book, 'Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women,' which was released on Valentine's Day to critical and popular acclaim. I asked her if the response was a surprise.

"We've been amazed and thrilled," said Nura, "by the overwhelmingly positive reception to the book. We knew that the stories would touch our readers, but I don't think we expected the response that it's received across the board -- from Muslim and non-Muslim readers and the media."

Laura Bell on ThirtyFour 50

Wed, 14 May 2014 16:44:43 +0000

Laura Bell is the author of the acclaimed Claiming Ground: A Memoir published by the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The memoir tells about her adventures in rural Wyoming. As noted in Publishers Weekly “Bell's extraordinary ability to impart a true sense of place on each page reveals a stark and stunning landscape populated with a playbill of peculiar personalities attracted to a life of solitude and hard physical work, and her life within this remarkable world.”
Bell’s work has been published in several collections, and from the Wyoming Arts Council she has received two literature fellowships as well as the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award.

White House Chef John Moeller

Thu, 22 May 2014 20:30:09 +0000

Chef John Moeller is a member of an elite corps of chefs, those who have served in the White House preparing très soigné cuisine for Presidents, First Families, and their guests, including visiting Heads of State. Chef to three First Families, including President George H.W. Bush, President William Jefferson Clinton, and President George W. Bush, Chef Moeller joined the White House kitchen in 1992 as sous chef to Pierre Chambrin and later Walter Scheib, eventually acting as White House Chef in 2005. Over the course of his career in the White House, he focused on creating unique and one-of-a-kind dishes that relied on fresh and flavorful ingredients.Chef Moeller grew up in the heart of Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. What started in high school as a passion for cooking led to his decision to pursue a culinary degree from Johnson and Wales College in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated cum laude in 1981.After working in several restaurants in the New England area, in 1984, John took a trip to France that became a two and a half year journey of discovery, working his way across the region and studying the fundamentals of French cuisine under some of the finest French chefs, including Chef M. Poinsot of Chez Camille and Michelin Star-awarded Chef Bernard Loiseau.

Brad Melzer from the History Channel.

Thu, 22 May 2014 20:32:25 +0000

Brad Meltzer the host of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel.
He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and seven other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game, The Book of Lies,and his newest, The Fifth Assassin.
In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction (History Decoded), Advice (Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter), Children’s Books (I Am Amelia Earhart and I Am Abraham Lincoln) and even comic books (Justice League of America), for which he won the prestigious Eisner Award.

Denis Kitchen author Al Capp

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:51:31 +0000

Denis Kitchen, Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary
In 1969, cartoonist, writer, and alternative publishing pioneer, Denis Kitchen founded Kitchen Sink Press, an innovative house that, until it folded in 1999, published early and new graphic works by some of the most recognized artists in the underground “comix” vanguard. Kitchen founded and for eighteen years chaired the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting first amendment rights in the comics industry. Kitchen co-authored The Art of Harvey Kurtzman with Paul Buhle, and Underground Classics with James Danky. In addition, Kitchen has written dozens of essays, introductions and annotations for books with numerous publishers including Abrams, W. W. Norton, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Kitchen Sink Press, and Kitchen Sink Books.

Steven Pressman - 50 Children

Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:23:54 +0000

Steven Pressman, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany The astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States.

Brad Meltzer from the History Channel.

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:41:25 +0000

Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and seven other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game, The Book of Lies, and his newest, The Fifth Assassin.

In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction (History Decoded), Advice (Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter), Children’s Books (I Am Amelia Earhart and I Am Abraham Lincoln) and even comic books (Justice League of America), for which he won the prestigious Eisner Award.
He is also the host of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel.
For sure, it’s tough to find anyone being so successful in so many different mediums of the popular culture. But why does Brad thrive in all these different professions? His belief that ordinary people change the world. It is that core belief that runs through every one of his projects.

Amanda Vaill - Hotel Florida Author

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:37:12 +0000

Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War Amanda Vaill is a biographer, journalist, and screenwriter. She the author of Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy – A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography. She is a co-author of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design, and has edited or contributed to a number of other books, most recently The Beatles Are Here! Her journalism and criticism have appeared in such publications as Architectural Digest, ArtNews, Ballet Review, Esquire, New York magazine, Town & Country, and the Washington Post. She wrote the screenplay for the PBS/American Masters documentary, Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, which won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award.

Emily Parker Now I Know Who My Comrades

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:27:48 +0000

Emily Parker is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" which was published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February, 2014. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote that the book is "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller. It's been a while since I have read a book that is so entertaining, not to mention so encouraging for the culture of liberty." Vargas Llosa's full article about "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are" can be found here.
Emily is currently digital diplomacy advisor and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where she has been writing her book and leading a US-China innovation project called Green Electronics: A US-China Maker Challenge. Previously, Emily was a member of Secretary Clinton’s Policy Planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she covered 21st-century statecraft, innovation, and technology. While at State she advised on issues related to Internet freedom and open government, and traveled to the Middle East to explore the role of new media in post-revolutionary Egypt. She no longer has any affiliation with the U.S. government.

Hector Tobar, Author of Deep Down Dark

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:33:59 +0000

Hector Tobar, Author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of the 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free

Dr. Nicholas Romanov-the Pose Method®

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:15:26 +0000

Two-time Olympic coach, world-renowned sports scientist, and author of The Running Revolution, Dr. Nicholas Romanov is the developer of the Pose Method®, which has been used by organizations such the United States military, CrossFit and professional sports programs, including the National Triathlon teams of Great Britain, United States, Mexico and Russia.
He was born, raised and educated in Russia, but relocated to United States in the early 1990s. In 2002, along with Dr. Tim Noakes et al., Dr. Romanov conducted a groundbreaking study that demonstrated how to reduce, by virtually 50 percent, the impact on the knees in running.
Dr. Romanov founded Romanov Academy of Sports Science in the 1990s to educate and certify coaches teaching sports technique. He travels around the world conducting research, consulting professional sports organizations, and inspiring audiences as a motivational speaker.

Professor Jamal Joseph

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:45:39 +0000

Jamal Joseph -- From Black Panther and Convict to Professor, Oscar Nominee, and Youth Advocate

Eddie Joseph was a fifteen-year-old Bronx honor student when he joined the Black Panthers in 1968. When Joseph went to his first Panther meeting, bursting with militant enthusiasm and expecting to be issued a gun, the leader handed him a stack of books: Mao, Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver. At sixteen, by then called Jamal, he was in prison with the legendary Panther 21 and would later serve more years at Leavenworth, where he earned two college degrees and found a new calling in prison theater. Now a film professor at Columbia University and former chair of their Graduate Film Program, as well as a recent Oscar nominee, he tells the remarkable story of his transformation in Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention. He is the executive artistic director of the New Heritage Theater in Harlem and cofounder and executive artistic director of IMPACT Repertory Theater, which has mentored over one thousand Harlem teens, providing an artistic voice for their lives and a constructive channel for social activism. “I began to see the power of art to bring people together to tell their stories, and to heal the human spirit,” he says.

Author Laura Lee Smith

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:01:58 +0000

Laura Lee Smith’s novel, Heart of Palm, is the story of the small town of Utina, Florida on the brink of change. But first, its oldest and most notorious family, the Bravos, must reckon with new developments and atone for past sins.
Laura’s short fictions was selected by guest editor Amy Hempel for inclusion in New Stories from the South. Her work has also appeared in The Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Bayou and other journals. She has taught creative writing at Flagler College.

Maureen B Fant-Sauces and Shapes

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:12:12 +0000

Maureen B. Fant, a native of New York, is a writer and translator who came to live in Rome in 1979 believing that her future lay in classical archaeology. She now writes mostly about Italian food. She is the coauthor of Women’s Life in Greece and Rome and Dictionary of Italian Cuisine, among others. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Gourmet, and other periodicals, and she lectures on the food of Rome and ancient Rome.

Gary M. Segura - Founder Latino Decisions

Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:07:57 +0000

Gary M. Segura, Ph.D., is Co-founder and Senior Partner of the polling and research firm Latino Decisions which he co-founded with Matt Barreto in 2007, and currently a Professor of American Politics at Stanford University. His work focuses on issues of political representation, and the politics to America’s growing Latino minority. Among his most recent publications are "The Future is Ours:" Minority Politics, Political Behavior, and the Multiracial Era of American Politics, (Congressional Quarterly, 2011) and Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Over the last 18 years, he has directed polling research that has completed over 80,000 interviews of Americans of all backgrounds on matters of political importance. He has briefed members of both the House and Senate as well as senior administration officials and appeared on National Public Radio, the News Hour, Frontline, the CBS Evening News, MSNBC, and numerous other outlets.

Podcast Caleb Scharf - Astrobiology

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:55:45 +0000

Caleb Scharf was born and educated in England. He received his B.Sc. in physics from Durham University, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge. Following postdoctoral work in X-ray astronomy and observational cosmology at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, he has been a research scientist at Columbia University in New York. He is currently the director of the multidisciplinary Columbia Astrobiology Center. His research interests include the study of exoplanets, exomoons, and the nature of environments suitable for life.

Dr. Caleb Scharf director of the multidisciplinary Columbia Astrobiology Center which investigates the origin and evolution of life on Earth and beyond

Harry Lembeck - Theodore Roosevelt Historian

Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:29:14 +0000

Harry Lembeck, a retired attorney, is a freelance writer and a recognized Theodore Roosevelt historian. He is the author of Taking on Theodore Roosevelt: How One Senator Defied the President on Brownsville and Shook American Politics. He has spoken about Roosevelt at meetings and seminars of historical organizations and acted as a historical advisor for a PBS program on peonage called Slavery by Another Name.

American Essayist Sven Birkerts

Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:49:34 +0000

Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."

Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:00:44 +0000

Margaret Lazarus Dean
Professor Dean is the author of two books. The first, a novel, (The Time It Takes to Fall, Simon & Schuster, 2007) is set near Cape Canaveral and follows a fictional NASA family through the aftermath of the Challenger disaster. The second, a book-length work of creative nonfiction, documents the final year of the space shuttle program (Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight, Graywolf Press, 2015). Her research interests include contemporary fiction, contemporary creative nonfiction, creative writing pedagogy, gender studies, literature of disaster, and literature of spaceflight.

Ronnie Green - Police Violence and Cover-Up

Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:08:03 +0000

Shots on the Bridge: Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina

Ronnie Greene is an investigative journalist at the Associated Press. Before joining the AP, Greene was project editor for Breathless and Burdened, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He is the author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town.
in the Wake of Katrina

Ronnie Greene is an investigative journalist at the Associated Press. Before joining the AP, Greene was project editor for Breathless and Burdened, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He is the author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town.

Karen Abbott - New York Times bestselling author

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:25:00 +0000

Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of SIN IN THE SECOND CITY, AMERICAN ROSE, and, most recently, LIAR TEMPTRESS SOLDIER SPY, named one of the best books of 2014 by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Amazon, and Flavorwire, and optioned by Sony for a miniseries. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives in New York City, where she's at work on her next book.

Margo Jefferson - Author on Black Aristocracy.

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:38:37 +0000

Pulitzer-winning writer and cultural critic Margo Jefferson’s new memoir, Negroland, maps this very terrain, one on which money, privilege, and racism intersect in sometimes insidious ways. In Negroland—what Jefferson terms “a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty”—lived the best of Afro-America: doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, teachers, and all-around strivers of the Third Race, the black aristocracy. Here in this community there were national and local clubs like Boule, Jack and Jill, the Guardsmen, Links, and black sororities and fraternities like Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Phi Alpha, founded to ensure that blacks of a certain pedigree would “embody and perpetuate the values of the Negro elite.”

Judith Miller - Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:13:21 +0000

Judith Miller is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly with The New York Times. She has been a commentator for Fox News, speaking on terrorism and other national security issues, the Middle East, American foreign policy, and need to strike a delicate balance between protecting both national security and civil liberties in a post-9/11 world. She is now an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of its magazine, "City Journal."

Mitch Weiss - Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist

Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:08:36 +0000

Mitch Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for The Associated Press covering subjects ranging from the Vietnam War to corrupt real estate appraisers to the British Petroleum oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. He is the coauthor of The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion and One American’s Fight to Liberate Cuba, Hunting Ché: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World’s Most Famous Revolutionary, No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan, and Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War.

Elliot Ackerman- International Writer

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:55:06 +0000

Elliot Ackerman is a writer based out of Istanbul. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, among others. He is also a contributor to The Daily Beast, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been interviewed in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and appeared on Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report, NPR Talk of the Nation, Meet the Press, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Al Jazeera and PBS News Hour among others.
Most recently, he served as a White House Fellow in the Obama Administration. He has spent eight years in the military as both an infantry and special operations officer. He has served multiple tours of duty in the Middle East and South West Asia. As a Marine Corps Special Operations Team Leader, he operated as the primary combat advisor to a 700-man Afghan commando battalion responsible for capture operations against senior Taliban leadership. He also led a 75-man platoon that aided in relief operations in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Ackerman is a decorated veteran, having earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart for his role leading a Rifle Platoon in the November 2004 Battle of Fallujah and a Bronze Star for Valor while leading a Marine Corps Special Operations Team in Afghanistan in 2008.

Derf Backderf - Indy comix creator

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:05:29 +0000

Derf Backderf sold his first cartoon in sixth grade Today he is one of the most widely-read indy comix creators. Known not only for his graphic novels, his images and illustrations have been viewed on t-shirts, cd covers, publications, and even in museums and galleries worldwide
His THE CITY comic strip appeared in over 140 publications during it's 20-plus years, including The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and The Los Angeles Reader.
He is a recipient of a prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and on that note today we talk to Derf about his book Trashed

Margaret Regan -Author of Detained and Deported

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:22:47 +0000

Margaret Regan is the author of two books on immigration, “Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire” (2015), which won a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and “The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands (2010), named a Southwest Book of the Year and a Common Read for the Unitarian Universalist Church. “The Death of Josseline” has been assigned to students in many college classrooms. Both books are from Beacon Press. A longtime journalist in Tucson, Margaret started writing about the border in 2000.

John Seabrook - “The Song Machine”

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:34:03 +0000

John Seabrook has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1989 and became a staff writer in 1993. Seabrook explores the intersection between creativity and commerce in the fields of technology, design, and music Seabrook was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a senior writer at Manhattan Inc. magazine.
“The Song Machine,” published by Norton in October, 2015. Before joining the magazine, Seabrook was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a senior writer at Manhattan Inc. magazine.

Cynthia Barnett - Blue Revolution-Unmaking America’s Water Crisis

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:57:09 +0000

Cynthia Barnett is an award-winning environmental journalist who has reported on freshwater from the Suwannee River to Singapore. She is author of the new book Rain: A Natural and Cultural History. Her two previous books are Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis. and Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

Martin Ford - Author of "Rise of the Robots"

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:07:24 +0000

Martin Ford is the author of the book Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (2015) dealing with the effects of automation and mass-unemployment. He is the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm, and obtained a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a graduate business degree from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

Howard Axelrod - The Point of Vanishing

Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:15:07 +0000

Howard Axelrod’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and the Boston Globe, among other publications. Howard lost his vision in one eye during his junior year at Harvard, he found himself in a world where nothing was solid, where reality had been shattered.

The Point of Vanishing A gorgeous account of solitude in an age of superficial connections,

Ronald Goldfarb - After Snowden … Privacy Secrecy

Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:09:19 +0000

After Snowden … Privacy Secrecy and security in the information age.

Ronald Goldfarb is a veteran Washington, D.C., attorney, author and literary agent who worked in the Department of Justice as a special assistant to Robert F. Kennedy in the organized crime and racketeering section, and as a speechwriter for Kennedy’s Senate campaign in New York. He has written 11 books and 300 articles in addition to numerous op-eds and reviews (see www.RonaldGoldfarb.com).

Warren Zanes- Petty the Biography

Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:44:11 +0000

Warren Zanes Petty the Biography,
Warren Zanes, rocker, accomplished writer, musician and friend to as well as band member for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Only could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty

David Maraniss - Once in a Great City A Detroit Story

Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:09:15 +0000

Once in a Great City A Detroit Story

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Pulitzer Prize winner for his coverage of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton. He is what I refer to as a journalist historian writing books about our history’s famous people and events.

Gene Baur -- “the conscience of the food movement”

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:39:58 +0000

Gene Baur
Hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine. He has traveled extensively around the country, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our current food system. A pioneer in the field of undercover investigations, Gene has visited hundreds of farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses documenting their deplorable conditions. His pictures and videos exposing factory farming cruelties have aired nationally and internationally, educating millions about the plight of modern farm animals.

Jo Ivester Author of The Outskirts of Hope

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:51:25 +0000

At the height of the civil rights movement, Jo Ivester’s father moved their family to the poorest county in the nation to start a medical clinic. She was 10 years old and the only white student in her class. In her memoir, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South (She Writes Press, April 2015), Ivester tells a very personal story of her family’s journey to the segregated American South.

Juan Felipe Herrera - First Latino U.S. Poet Laureate

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 19:06:29 +0000

Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera is the first Latino U.S. Poet Laureate. He is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist. His's experiences as the child of migrant farmers have strongly shaped his work, such as the children's book. He creative touch started in high school playing folk music by Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie.

Elizabeth Alexander - poet, essayist, and teacher

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 19:10:48 +0000

Professor Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, and teacher. She is the author of six books of poems, two collections of essays, a play, and various edited collections. She was recently named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, as well as the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She previously served as the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, where she taught for 15 years and chaired the African American Studies Department. In 2009, she composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Her memoir, The Light of the World, has just been released to great acclaim.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Judith Miller

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:56:42 +0000

Judith Miller is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly with The New York Times. She has been a commentator for Fox News, speaking on terrorism and other national security issues, the Middle East, American foreign policy, and need to strike a delicate balance between protecting both national security and civil liberties in a post-9/11 world.

She is now an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of its magazine, "City Journal."

Nancie McDermott - Food Writer and Cooking Teacher

Sun, 17 Apr 2016 16:31:38 +0000

Nancie McDermott is a food writer and cooking teacher, and the author of ten cookbooks. Her passion is researching and celebrating traditional food in its cultural context, and her beloved subjects are two seemingly different places with much in common: the cuisines of Asia and of the American South. Nancie gained her Southern kitchen wisdom as a Piedmont North Carolina native, and her Asian culinary research commenced soon after college, when she was sent to northeastern Thailand as a Peace Corps volunteer.
She has written on food and travel for numerous publications including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, Cooks Illustrated, Every Day with Rachel Ray, Family Fun, Food Arts, and the Los Angeles Times. Nancie is the author of ten cookbooks and a national television food celebrity

Seth Siegel

Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:47:03 +0000

Seth M Siegel
Seth M. Siegel is a businessman, activist and writer. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other publications around the world on business, political and cultural issues. Siegel has often appeared on television and has been widely quoted in major print media. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dan Ephron - Killing A King: The Assassination Of Yitzhak Rabin

Mon, 02 May 2016 01:10:59 +0000

Dan Ephron has been Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief since January 2010. Previously, serving as a national-security correspondent and deputy bureau chief for the magazine in Washington. His stories have also appeared in The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Esquire.
Killing A King: The Assassination Of Yitzhak Rabin And The Remaking Of Israel

Dennis Dunaway - of Alice Cooper

Sun, 08 May 2016 19:17:05 +0000

Dennis Dunaway was the bass player, songwriter, and theatrical conceptionalist of Alice Cooper and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Their hit single "School's Out" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.

Dennis's memoir Snakes Guillotines Electric Chairs… My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group is the spellbinding account of Alice Cooper's creation in the '60s, strange glory in the '70s, and the legendary characters they met along the way.

Chip Kidd - Designer/Writer

Mon, 16 May 2016 11:46:35 +0000

Chip Kidd is a Designer/Writer in New York City (and Stonington, CT, and Palm Beach, FL). His book cover designs for Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked non-stop since 1986, have helped create a revolution in the art of American book packaging. He is the recipient of the National Design Award for Communications, as well at the Use of Photography in Design award from the International Center of Photography. And a bunch of other stuff. Kidd has published two novels, The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners, as well as Batman: Death By Design, an original graphic novel published by DC Comics and illustrated by Dave Taylor. He is also the author of several books about comics, notably 'Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz', 'Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross', 'Batman: Animated', 'Jack Cole and Plasticman' (with Art Spiegelman), 'Batman Collected', 'Shazam!

Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubert

Sun, 22 May 2016 21:46:46 +0000

NATHALIE DUPREE is the author of fourteen cookbooks. She is best known for her approachability and her understanding of Southern cooking, having started the New Southern Cooking movement now found in many restaurants throughout the United States, and co-authoring Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking.
She has trained many stsudents, many of them now own restaurants, catering or other food businesses, edit magazines, have their own television shows and have written their own cookbooks.

Nathalie, has won wide recognition for her work, including four James Beard Awards. She was awarded the honor of “Grande Dame” for Les Dames d’ Escoffier, the highest honor for women who have excelled in the food industry. She was also named the 2013 Woman of the Year from the French Master Chefs of America, and in 2015 was named to the James Beard Who’s Who in America.

Josh Schonwald -- The Taste of Tomorrow

Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:00:51 +0000

Josh Schonwald, MS is author of The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food and a Chicago-based journalist whose work has appeared in more than 20 different publications, from The New York Times and The Washington Post to Salon, Crain’s Chicago Business, and the Chicago Reader.

In addition to his work for news organizations, he has worked as a writer for the University of Chicago for several years, where he has covered academic research in the humanities and social sciences for the University of Chicago Chronicle.

His articles include A Fish Farmer’s Tale, Future Fillet, running with the Pack, It’s Not the Kit Kat Club, But It’s A Living, Philosophy for ‘limited beings’ accommodates approximations, From a Nursing Home, Dedication to the Arts Blooms Anew, Grandmasters in Guayaberas, The Full Montevideo, Paddles of Fire, Ice Age Trail Cometh, The Rise of Hitler Humor, Lord of the Flies, Laughs and Learning With Jules Feiffer, and On a Rolle. Read more of his articles!

Jamal Joseph - writer, director, producer, poet, activist, & educator.

Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:37:10 +0000

Jamal Joseph is an American writer, director, producer, poet, activist, and educator. Joseph was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He was prosecuted as one of the Panther 21. He spent six years incarcerated at Leavenworth Penitentiary.

While at Leavenworth, he earned two college degrees and wrote his first play. He is a full professor and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group in Harlem. He has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, BET's American Gangster and on Tupac Shakur's The Rose That Grew from Concrete Volumes 1 and 2. He is the author of the interactive biography on Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur Legacy.

Joseph was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award in the Best Song category for his contributions to the song "Raise It Up", performed by IMPACT Repertory Theatre and Jamia Nash in the 2007 film August Rush.

Political Strategist David Axelrod

Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:11:53 +0000

Political Strategist David Axelrod

If there was ever a political strategist who could be consider a transformer of government, it would be David Axelrod. David has accomplished more in 40 years of political service than anyone in modern history. He has reported on big city political machines, the emergence of the black, independent movement, and the continuing evolution of the Democratic Party. He is a regular, analyst, guest and commentator for major TV networks on political issues.

His current book “Believer, My Forty Years in Politics” is on many best seller lists.

Dr Dread - Jamaican culture

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:53:13 +0000

If you have listen to reggae, and explore the Jamaican culture as well as Rastafari beliefs then you know of my guest, the one and only Dr. Dread
We be discussing his book The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread during the show today.

Author Diana Abu-Jaber -- Life Without A Recipe

Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:23:19 +0000

Diana Abu-Jaber’s new culinary memoir, Life Without A Recipe, has been described as “a book of love, death, and cake.” Ruth Reichl calls it “bold and luscious” and “indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path.”

Diana was born in Syracuse, New York to an American mother and a Jordanian father. Her family moved to Jordan a few times throughout her childhood, and elements of both her American and Jordanian experiences, as well as cross-cultural issues, especially culinary reflections, appear in her work.

Robert Silk -- Florida Tourism

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:02:47 +0000

Robert Silk is the Florida tourism and airlines editor for Travel Weekly and former senior staff writer for the Key West Citizen/Florida Keys Free Press. He has also written for the Chicago Tribune and Miami Herald, among other publications.
Topic and Book: An Ecotourist's Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys

Anna Thomas -- Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore

Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:54:49 +0000

Anna Thomas is known for her film screenwriting and film producing and writer. But for us foodies she is known as the creator of a culinary style that continues to grow today. Her new culinary masterpiece Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore is not on film but in the kitchen. And I can say I own her first cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure since 1972 when I went to hospitality school.

Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:55:48 +0000

Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs is a historian, professor, author and social commentator.

A graduate of Florida A&M University (B.A., History) and Florida State University, she has taught courses in American, African American, oral history, and public history at Florida A&M University, Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, and John Tyler Community College, in Chester, Virginia
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Her Book: Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida.

Ari Berman -- Give Us the Ballot

Sun, 18 Dec 2016 19:18:36 +0000

Ari Berman is a senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, civil rights, and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and commentator on MSNBC and NPR.
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America,

Jan 9 Rowan Jacobsen

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:32:01 +0000

Rowan Jacobsen is the author of A Geography of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, American Terroir, Shadows on the Gulf, Apples of Uncommon Character, and The Essential Oyster. He writes for Harper’s, Outside, Mother Jones, Vice, Yankee, and others, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing and Best Food Writing collections. He has won a couple of James Beard Awards, an IACP award, and some others. His Outside Magazine piece “Heart of Dark Chocolate” received the Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers for best adventure story of the year, and his Harper’s piece “The Homeless Herd” was named best magazine piece of the year by the Overseas Press Club. He was an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, writing about endangered diversity on the borderlands between India, Myanmar, and China, and a McGraw Center for Business Journalism Fellow, writing about the disruptive potential of plant-based proteins. Apples of Uncommon Character was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, NPR, and others.

Dr. Marvin Dunn -- Roots in the City,

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 16:44:35 +0000

Dr. Marvin Dunn taught in the Department of Psychology at Florida International University for thirty-four years, retiring as head of the department in 2006.

His first book, a co-authored work with Bruce Porter, The Miami Riots of 1980: Crossing the Bounds, is the definitive work on that event.

He has designed and traveled to create an extensive photo history of blacks in Florida

Dr. Dunn has appeared on numerous national television programs including several appearances on the CBS, NBC and ABC evening news programs as well as on CNN, Fox News, the BBC, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Black Entertainment Television, The News Hour, and Nightline.

He has also written articles for many newspapers including, the Miami Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, the St Petersburg Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He has directed three documentary films,

Dr. Dunn is the founder of the non-profit organization, Roots in the City, which hires deprived people to develop community gardens in Miami inner-city areas.

Ben Greenman Author of Emotional Rescue

Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:11:11 +0000

Ben Greenman is a New York Times-bestselling author of acclaimed works of fiction. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, Paris Review, and elsewhere. His writing has His wit, insight, and honesty are as sweet and satisfying as you will ever need.
BOOK: Emotional Rescue, a collection of essays on love, loss, and life with soundtrack.

D Marvin Jones - Professor of Law

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 03:47:48 +0000

Donald Marvin Jones, Professor of Law, is a Baltimore native and a graduate of the New York University School of Law.

He is an author and commentator who has earned an international reputation by thinking critically about important issues concerning the civil and political rights of all Americans.

Professor Jones is the author of Four books which weaves together law, history, and human narratives to explore the gulf between formal equality and the social disadvantage people of color still experience in their lives. Professor Jones has appeared on PBS' Frontline, CNN's Burden of Proof; The O'Reilly Factor among other media appearances.

We’ll discuss his new book “Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile” today on Thirty Four-50

Elizabeth Rosner -- Author of Survivor Cafe

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:10:05 +0000

ELIZABETH ROSNER is the author of three novels and a poetry collection. The Speed of Light was translated into nine languages and won several awards in the US and in Europe, including being shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Femina. Blue Nude was named among the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Electric City was named among the best books of 2014 by NPR. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, the San Francisco Chronicle and others. She lives in Berkeley, CA.

Weike Wang Author of Chemistry

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:24:43 +0000

Weike Wang is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, The Journal, Ploughshares, Redivider, and SmokeLong Quarterly.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. She’s tormented by her failed research—and reminded of her delays by her peers, her advisor, and most of all by her Chinese parents, who have always expected nothing short of excellence from her throughout her life. But there’s another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can’t make a life before finding success on her own. Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. And for the first time, she’s confronted with a question she won’t find the answer to in a textbook: What do I really want? Over the next two years, this winningly flawed, disarmingly insightful heroine learns the formulas and equations for a different kind of chemistry—one in which the reactions can’t be quantified, measured, and analyzed; one that can be studied only in the mysterious language of the heart. Taking us deep inside her scattered, searching mind, here is a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family.

Leah Lubin

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:47:06 +0000

Leah Lubin:
leah.lubindom@gmail.com
Acupuncturist, TCM practitioner, Herbologist, retreat facilitator.

Beth Macy -- Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:40:05 +0000

Journalist Beth Macy has covered the opioid crisis as a reporter Involving herself with addicts trying to get clean. She has seen families grieving after overdose deaths, she has had discussions with heroin dealers, read drug studies and paged thru court documents. Yet thru the journey still finds reason to be hopeful with those facing addiction are attempting to build a life and a better future for themselves and their families.
Her new book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America attempts to capture the size of the crisis.

Author Deborah Baker -- The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 17:30:17 +0000

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Deborah Baker’s is a biographer and essayist and has wrote for the Los Angeles Times. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her book, The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire. Which is our discussion today. Her extraordinaire style of writing, places the reader into the story not just a bystander.
So let’s begin our journey through the Indian subcontinent at the closing of the British Empire.

Author Eli Saslow -- Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a White Supremacist

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 18:35:21 +0000

Eli Saslow is a staff writer for the Washington Post and a contributor to ESPN The Magazine. He has won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting and a George Polk Award for national reporting, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. His works include Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President and American Hunger: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series.
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a White Supremacist by Eli Saslow

Author Natalie Hopkinson Ph.D -- A Mouth is Always Muzzled

Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:55:16 +0000

Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D. is a writer whose work explores the arts, public policy and cultural identity. She is a fellow of the Interactivity Foundation and an assistant professor in Howard University’s graduate program in Communication, Culture and Media Studies. A former staff writer, editor and culture critic at the Washington Post and The Root, she is the author of two critically acclaimed books: Go-Go Live (Duke University Press), and Deconstructing Tyrone (Cleis Press
She is co-founder of the Women Writers of Color brunch group established in 2012 and currently serves on the board of directors for the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
Her new book : A Mouth is Always Muzzled is our discussion today on 3450

Author Alissa Quart -- Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America,

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:00:08 +0000

Alissa Quart is a total media author. She is the author of four non-fiction books, writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian, Alissa is the Executive Editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a non-profit devoted to commissioning, editing and placing reportage about inequality.
A 2018 Columbia Journalism School Alumna of the year, been a Nieman fellow, an Emmy-nominated video writer and producer, and a professor. And in her spare time she has wrote her latest non-fiction book, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America,

Bill Press -- From the Left, a Life in the Cross Fire.

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 17:55:14 +0000

Bill Press is one of the most Popular talk radio show host today and was named one of the most important radio hosts in the nation by Talkers magazine. Beginning his journalism career working at two television stations in Los Angeles, he has become a driving force in liberal political issues today, thought-provoking and humorous.
A former co-host of Spin Room on CNN, Buchanan and Press show on MSNBC, a contributing writer for The Huffington Post, and a regular CNN political contributor. He has received numerous awards for his work, including four Emmys and a Golden Mike Award. He is also the author of 7 books

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha -- National spotlight, WHAT THE EYES DON’T SEE

Sun, 16 Dec 2018 18:10:03 +0000

By the crusading pediatrician who brought the fight for justice in Flint to the national spotlight, WHAT THE EYES DON’T SEE is a powerful first-hand account of the Flint water crisis, the signature environmental disaster of our time, and a riveting narrative of personal advocacy.

DR. MONA HANNA-ATTISHA MD, MPH, FAAP
An associate professor of pediatrics and human development at Michigan State University, Dr. Mona is also the founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, a model program to mitigate the impact of the Flint water crisis so that all Flint children grow up healthy and strong. Find out more about the organization and its work at MSUHurleyPPHI.org.

Thomas Frank -- Author of Rendezvous with Oblivion

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:50:11 +0000

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times—perfect for this political moment

What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America’s winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country?

With his sharp eye for detail, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration and describing the worlds of both the winners and the losers—the sprawling mansion districts as well as the lives of fast-food workers.

Rendezvous with Oblivion is a collection of interlocking essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in our cities, in our jobs, in the way we travel—and of course in our politics, where in 2016, millions of anxious ordinary people rallied to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:15:33 +0000

Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, he was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print. Vargas has also worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Daily News, and The Huffington Post. He wrote, produced, and directed the autobiographical 2013

Laura Wides Munoz

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 21:20:11 +0000

Laura Wides-Muñoz is the author of The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What it Means to be American (Harper Books). Previously she served as VP for Special Projects & Editorial Strategy at Fusion TV, and was a staff writer at The Associated Press for more than a decade.

Meri-Jane Rochelson

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 19:29:25 +0000

This biography tells the story of Eli G. Rochelson, MD (1907-1984), in his own words and through exhaustive research in personal and public archives. At its core is an interview Eli did with his son, Burt Rochelson, in the mid-1970s. Through letters, documents, and photographs saved by Eli and his family in America, his daughter, Meri-Jane, expands the picture of a man whose life and memory spanned two world wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, the massive upheaval of the Holocaust, and, finally, a strenuous yet ultimately successful effort to restore his professional credentials and identity, as well as reestablish family life.

Peter Biskind -- Author of “The Sky Is Falling

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:35:19 +0000

Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist, and former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996.[1][2][2] He wrote several books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters, some of which were bestsellers.[citation needed] In 2010 he published a biography of director and actor Warren Beatty, entitled Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America.

Biskind is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.[2] His work has appeared in a number of publications that include Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Paris Match, The Nation, The New York Times, The Times (London), and the Los Angeles Times, as well as in film journals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly.

He served as the editor-in-chief of American Film from 1981 to 1986.
Biskind's books have been translated into more than thirty different languages.

Author Mary Jo McConahay --- The Tango War

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:55:21 +0000

Born in Chicago, Mary Jo McConahay is an award-winning reporter who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. She has traveled in seventy countries and has been fascinated by the history of World War II since childhood, when she listened to the stories of her father, a veteran U.S. Navy officer. A graduate of the University of California in Berkeley, she covers Latin America as an independent journalist. Coming Sept. 18: The Tango War, The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II Her previous books include Maya Roads, One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest and Ricochet, Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire. She lives in San Francisco.Maya Roads earned the Grand Award, Society of American Travel Writers; International Book Awards Winner in three categories -- Autobiography/Memoir, Best New Nonfiction, Best Travel Essay Book; the Independent Publishers' Award Gold -- Best Travel Essay Book; National Geographic Traveler Book of the Month; Northern California Book Awards, Best Creative Nonfiction. For Maya Roads and other travel writing, McConahay was named Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in the genre. Ricochet earned a Global Ebook Award for Autobiography/Memoir

Etan Thomas -- “The Activist Athlete.”

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 20:25:19 +0000

Etan Thomas is More Than An Athlete, he’s redefined himself “The Activist Athlete.” Thomas defies the stereotype of the apolitical athlete, planting his roots in his formidable literary career, passion for mentoring and civic engagement.
Born in Harlem, New York and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Thomas’ childhood was surrounded by books on the civil rights movement, politics and the 1960′s. He was greatly influenced by his mother, Deborah Thomas, a schoolteacher, who instilled in her two sons to think critically and use their platform to make a difference. Etan Thomas has made his mark far beyond the boundaries of his 11 years in the NBA.
His latest work, We Matter “Athletes And Activism” was released March 6th 2018, Thomas has amassed an amazing collection of interviews intertwined with the heartfelt commentary of his own to create a masterpiece. You’ll read the voices of athletes, activists, media personalities, scholars, and the family of victims of police brutality. We Matter was listed as one of the top ten best activism books of all time by Book Authority. And tied for best non-fiction for 2018 by the African-American Literary Awards (AALAS)

Crystal M Fleming -- author, public intellectual and expert on white supremacy and global racism

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:00:10 +0000

Crystal Marie Fleming, Ph.D. is an author, public intellectual and expert on white supremacy and global racism. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University with affiliations in the Department of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Fleming is the author of two books: the critically-acclaimed How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide and Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France. Additionally, her scholarship appears in journals such as The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Poetics, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race and Mindfulness.

At Stony Brook, Dr. Fleming teaches undergraduate courses and doctoral seminars on social theory, race/ethnicity and qualitative methods. She is the faculty advisor to the Black Graduate Student Organization and has also been the faculty advisor to the Black Women's Association.

Anna Thomas -- Film screenwriting and film producing and writer.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:56:14 +0000

Anna Thomas is known for her film screenwriting and film producing and writer.

But for us foodies she is known as the creator of a culinary style that continues to grow today. Her new culinary masterpiece

Book: Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore is not on film but in the kitchen.

And I can say I own her first cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure since 1972 when I went to hospitality school. Thomas lives in Ojai, California where she continues to write screenplays and other fiction. She also teaches at the American Film Institute as a lecturer

Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs -Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:08:08 +0000

Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs is a historian, professor, author and social commentator.

A graduate of Florida A&M University (B.A., History) and Florida State University, she has taught courses in American, African American, oral history, and public history at Florida A&M University, Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, and John Tyler Community College, in Chester, Virginia

Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida.

Anna Thomas -- Film screenwriting and film producing and writer.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:13:07 +0000

Book: Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore is not on film but in the kitchen.

And I can say I own her first cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure since 1972 when I went to hospitality school.

Thomas lives in Ojai, California where she continues to write screenplays and other fiction. She also teaches at the American Film Institute as a lecturer.

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With Good Reason - Sarah McConnell

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 04:00:48 +0000

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