Category: Author Interview

September 1, 2010

Interview with Ami Pedahzur — The Israeli Secret Services & The Struggle Against Terrorism

The following is a reprint of an interview with Ami Pedahzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. The book is now available in paperback: Q: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other...

August 24, 2010

Interview with James Fleming, Author of Fixing the Sky

In an interview earlier this year with SciCom, James Rodger Fleming, author of Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, discussed his new book and some of the history and science associated with weather and climate...

August 19, 2010

The Rise of the Tomato — An Interview with David Gentilcore

While some might say “tomato,” and others “tomahtoe,” the Italians say “Pomodoro!” The tomato is, of course, a staple in Italian food but it was not always that way. As David Gentilcore explains in a recent Boston Globe interview regarding...

August 4, 2010

Living with a Rising Giant

In a recent interview posted on the Northwestern University website, Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China co-author Benjamin I. Page, a professor at Northwestern, explains how Americans perceive the rise of China as...

July 30, 2010

Siddharth Kara on Human Trafficking in India

Siddharth Kara, the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, continues his CNN series on human trafficking with an interview with Becky Anderson. In the interview Kara discusses human trafficking in India and shows pictures of its...

July 28, 2010

Interview with Clayton Crockett on Hegel and the Insurrections Series

Dr. Clayton Crockett, associate professor and director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas, is co-editor of the Columbia book series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture along with Slavoj Žižek, Creston Davis, and Jeffrey Robbins....

July 23, 2010

(Sylvia) Beach reading continued

We continue our focus on Fernham’s focus on Sylvia Beach and The Letters of Sylvia Beach with an excerpt from the second part of what will be a four-part interview between Anne Fernald, who writes the blog, and Keri Walsh,...

July 19, 2010

Interview with Gary Cross, author of Men to Boys (now available in paper!)

Gary Cross’s bestselling cultural history Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity is now available in paperback. Here is an interview we conducted with him when the book was first published. Question: Why did you write a book about...

July 8, 2010

Avner Cohen on Israel's "Secret" Nuclear Arsenal

Earlier this week, NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed Avner Cohen author of the forthcoming The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb. In the interview Cohen discusses Israel’s policy to never publicly acknowledge that it has possession of nuclear weapons....

July 2, 2010

Michael Mauboussin on the Big Think

Michael Mauboussin, author of More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded), was recently featured on Big Think. In the interview, Mauboussin, who is also the Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management, argues...

June 30, 2010

Stephen Cohen on the Russian Spy Scandal

In an interview with CBS News, Stephen Cohen, most recently the author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, questions the timing of the arrests in the Russian spy scandal. More precisely, Cohen, who...

June 18, 2010

Sam Girgus — Conversations with scholars of American popular culture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 1900 to Present recently interview Sam Girgus, author of Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine, in their series of conversations with scholars of American popular culture. As you...