Category: Author Interview

April 8, 2008

Houston Baker on National Public Radio

Houston Baker appeared on NPR’s News and Notes yesterday to discuss his book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. In the interview Baker discusses his upbringing in Louisville’s Little Africa, how Shelby Steele...

March 27, 2008

Robert Barnett on Tibet

Yesterday’s Foreign Policy Web site ran an interview with Robert Barnett, author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories, about the current situation in Tibet. In the interview Barnett, talks about the significance of the protests in Tibetan rural areas, the possible...

March 19, 2008

Interview with Jonathan Freedman, author of Klezmer America

Question: So, why did you write this book? Jonathan Freedman: The question any author dreads—and hopes for! I’ve been teaching and writing a lot about the Jews in America and was wondering why so much of the critical writing of...

February 21, 2008

Interview with Marda Dunsky, author of Pens and Swords

In this interview with the Press, Marda Dunsky talks about her new book Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and discusses some of the failures by the media and what can be done to...

February 8, 2008

"I Miss the Old New York Sounds of My 50's Childhood"

This quote comes from a recent online chat Seth Lerer had on the Web site wordsmith.org to discuss his book Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. Lerer explores a variety of questions related to the history and possible...