This afternoon Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt features Art
Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick and Jonathan Rosen on a show whose theme is
Jewish Identity in Writing.
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Among Leonard Lopate's guests tomorrow:
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A different perspective? This morning Diane Rehm grills two self-published authors, Peyton Lewis and Howie Schaffer, about self-publishing.
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Yesterday Fresh Air rebroadcast a 1997 interview with Shelby Foote, most notably author of the highly praised three-volume The Civil War: A Narrative (Vintage, $75)--an effort that took four times as long to write as the subject lasted--and narrator of Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War. Foote died on Monday. To listen, tap http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723073.
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Yesterday Talk of the Nation talked with the head of the nation of Disney: Michael Eisner, who, just as the summer begins, continues to promote his memoir/advice book, Camp (Warner, $22.95).
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Among Leonard Lopate's guests tomorrow:
- Alephonsion Deng and Judy Bernstein. Deng was displaced by the Sudanese civil war; Bernstein helped write his story in They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky (PublicAffairs, $25).
- Jack El-Hai, author of The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (Wiley, $27.95), who discusses why doctors once used psychosurgery to treat mental illness. Scientific America called this biography of Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman, a champion of lobotomies, "poignant and illuminating."
- Ed Hotaling, whose Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Wakefield (McGraw-Hill, $22.95) tells the tale of the late African-American jockey.
- Patrick Keefe, author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random, $24.95), which appropriately also comes in several audio editions.
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A different perspective? This morning Diane Rehm grills two self-published authors, Peyton Lewis and Howie Schaffer, about self-publishing.
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Yesterday Fresh Air rebroadcast a 1997 interview with Shelby Foote, most notably author of the highly praised three-volume The Civil War: A Narrative (Vintage, $75)--an effort that took four times as long to write as the subject lasted--and narrator of Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War. Foote died on Monday. To listen, tap http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723073.
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Yesterday Talk of the Nation talked with the head of the nation of Disney: Michael Eisner, who, just as the summer begins, continues to promote his memoir/advice book, Camp (Warner, $22.95).