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On this week's episode of You Are What You Read, we are sitting down with bestselling author Julie Gilbert for a conversation about her beloved aunt, Edna Ferber. Julie writes about her Edna Ferber in the biography, Edna Ferber and Her Circle, and in her latest book, Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film. Julie has taught Creative Writing at New York University's School of Continuing Education and currently heads The Writers Academy at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. In this episode, Julie walks us through the Golden Age of Hollywood from the writer's desk of her aunt Edna Ferber, the Pulitizer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer and playwright.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radial change without their colonists' consent.With his latest book,  The Cause, Joseph J. Ellis sits down with Adam and discusses how his book takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovers a strange breed of “prudent” revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts our land. Joseph J. Ellis is a leading scholar of American history and is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner for his biographies of our nation's earliest presidents. Ellis is a distinguished professor and seasoned speaker who regales audiences with stories of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other U.S. presidents.Explore the work of Professor Ellis at his website hereWhile his fine books are certainly available everywhere, Professor Ellis encourages you to shop at your local independent bookstore :) Click here to find one near you. Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack! Tell us what you think on Twitter! Are you registered to VOTE?

Film star Illeana Douglas is Jen's guest today. Ileana is the author of the gorgeous new book: Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia. This spans around 100 years from the silent film era up through the early 21st Century. This beautiful coffee table book is filled with delicious never-before-seen movie stills and back lot stories. Illeana  has starred in too many films to mention. You know her from the movies including Cape Fear, Ghost of My Heart, Good Fellas, and To Die For, plus the many television shows like Entourage, Seinfeld, and Six Feet Under. Her first book, I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies was named Best Pop Culture book of the year in 2015 by Entertainment Weekly. With Connecticut in the Movies, readers revisit classic films and are introduced to deep cuts. Illeana also places more contemporary films in context. My favorite chapter is Dark Suburbia Redux which focuses on more contemporary films like The Ice Storm 1997, directed by Ang Lee and starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver.   I love it, but so do so many others. Here's what Pulitizer-Prize winning investigative journalist Ronan Farrow had to say: “In Connecticut in the Movies, Illeana Douglas puts on her historian's hat and takes readers on a compelling tour of her adopted state's surprising, colorful, and sometimes dark history in cinema. Her adoration of the state, and the movies, leaps off of these pages—and it's infectious.” Contact Booked Up: You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:  BOOKED UP  P.O. BOX 147 NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061 Get More from Jen Taub: Twitter| Money & Gossip  Substack | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY  Get More from Iliana Douglas: Twitter| Website  | Author of CONNECTICUT IN THE MOVIES

It's time for another visit with Midday theater critic, J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins Tom each week with her reviews of Maryland's regional stage. Today she tells us about Tuesday's opening night performance of To Kill A Mockingbird, at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theater. The touring company production is Aaron Sorkin's acclaimed stage adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitizer Prize-winning novel about racial justice in the Jim Crow South. It's directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, and stars Richard Thomas in the role of attorney Atticus Finch, who works to defend a Black man who has been wrongfully accused of raping a White woman. To Kill A Mockingbird continues at The Hippodrome through March 19. Click the play's link for ticketing and showtime information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley: For more than 10 years, author Joshua Prager immersed himself in the story of the woman at the center of the Roe v. Wade case, Norma McCorvey, as well as the lawyers who filed the case and the leaders of the then nascent anti-abortion movement. McCorvey's life as a plaintiff in the Roe case and the cast of characters around her provide a revealing window into the abortion controversy writ large. Prager's careful, detailed research and masterful storytelling reveals the contradictions, hypocrisy, righteous fury and gut wrenching pain that helps explain how the landmark legislation became a third rail. GUEST Joshua Prager, journalist, author and 2022 Pulitizer Prize finalist for “The Family Roe: An American Story”

On the 30th anniversary of Pres. Bill Clinton's inauguration, we explore the the short- and long-term impacts of his tenure. On Today's Show: Eleanor Clift, columnist for The Daily Beast, and David Maraniss, associate editor at The Washington Post, Pulitizer Prize-winning reporter, and the author of several books and biographies, including First in His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton (Simon & Schuster, 1995) and his latest, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe (Simon & Schuster, 2022), discuss the Clinton campaign and the factors leading to his victory.

More than 100 years ago, George Satayana wrote “those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” When it comes to political scandals it is especially true. So today, some Michigan political history that may foreshadow one of the first big stories of 2023. Pulitizer Prize-winning reproters Eric Freedman, and Jim, Mitzelfeld, right, celebrate news of their award April 12, 1994 with Detroit News Editor and Publisher Robert H. Giles. The first story in their winning series on the mishandling of spending by the Michigan State House Fiscal Agency was printed in January 1993. Diane Weiss / The Detroit News And that is the investigation of former state House Speaker Lee Chatfield – an investigation that began with accusations of sexual misbehavior and quickly branched out to major misuse of government money, campaign fundraising practices bordering on bribery, and the sometimes toxic intersection of high-powered lobbyists and government decision makers. 29 years ago Lansing was embroiled in a scandal with many of the same overtones of the Chatfield affair. Massive amounts of money were stolen by the powerful and excessively independent director of the state House of Representatives' fiscal agency.  Mitzelfeld (left) and Friedman (right) nearly 30 years later, joined by 1990 Pulitzer winner M.L. Elrick of the Detroit Free Press. As has been true with the Chatfield scandal, much of the public's knowledge of the corrupt behavior was revealed by reporters from the Detroit News. The coverage of the 1993 House Fiscal Agency Scandal was led by reporters Jim Mitzelfeld and Eric Freedman. They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting … and they join us on a special edition of “A Republic, If You Can Keep It”. (The interview was recorded before we learned that the U.S. Justice Department was assisting in the Chatfield investigation; anything either of our guests say regarding that investigation is solely based on what they had read in the news.) For more information on the two scandals: • The 7 worst political scandals in Michigan history • The Scandal, 20 Years Later - John Lindstrom blog post • Corruption lingers 20 years after legislative scandal erupts - Spartan Newsroom (by Eric Freedman) • Leaders act quickly in fiscal agency scandal. - Free Online Library • U.S. v. MORBERG | 863 F.Supp. 511 (1994) | upp51111272 | Leagle.com • Michigan State Police hand off Lee Chatfield probe to Attorney General | Bridge Michigan • Ex-Speaker Lee Chatfield provided foothold in government for lobbyists - Detroit News • Lee Chatfield traveled the nation as Michigan's speaker, but who paid? • Livengood: Chatfield scandal exposes unchecked influence of lobbyists • Commentary: Tarnished gavels – Is corruption an occupational hazard for House speakers? - Spartan Newsroom (by Eric Freedman) =========================== This week's podcast is underwritten in part by EPIC-MRAEPIC ▪ MRA is a full service survey research firm with expertise in: • Public Opinion Surveys • Market Research Studies • Live Telephone Surveys • On-Line and Automated Surveys • Focus Group Research • Bond Proposals - Millage Campaigns • Political Campaigns & Consulting • Ballot Proposals - Issue Advocacy Research • Community - Media Relations • Issue - Image Management • Database Development & List Management  

Tuesday on Political Rewind: In the aftermath of the Jan. 6th committee's unprecedented decision to refer former President Trump to criminal charges, we take a step back to look at the origins of our democracy. Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff joins us to discuss Samuel Adams' vision for our country. The panel: Stacy Schiff, @stacyschiff, author, "The Revolutionary" Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:00 - Author Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adam's unlikely beginnings. 28:00 - Adams as a secretive revolutionary. 40:00 - Why was Adams forgotten for so long? Please be sure to download our newsletter: www.gpb.org/newsletters. And subscribe, follow and rate this show wherever podcasts are found.

The Pulitizer Prize winning columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch, has a brand new book out dealing with the ridiculous costs of higher education here in the US. It's called "After the Ivory Tower: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up our Politics--And How to Fix it". He joins me today for a loose cost/benefit analysis. I still struggle with the fact that my daughter did not go to college, as I couldn't afford to send her and I didn't want her to take on that kind of debt when she didn't like school, wasn't a good student, and had no educational/career path planned. Apparently, we're not alone!

Every two years the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission selects a prominent person whose residence in the state contributed to their greatness and place in history. This year nominees, put forward by members of the public, include the controversial civil rights leader Malcolm X, a famed baseball pitcher, a Pulitizer Prize-winning composer, and a pioneer in promoting women's sports. Public hearings on the candidates begin this evening in Lincoln.

Every two years the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission selects a prominent person whose residence in the state contributed to their greatness and place in history. This year nominees, put forward by members of the public, include the controversial civil rights leader Malcolm X, a famed baseball pitcher, a Pulitizer Prize-winning composer, and a pioneer in promoting women's sports. Public hearings on the candidates begin this evening in Lincoln.

Creativity through the lens of a Pulitizer Prize nominated author"To be creative for me is to trust myself to speak my truth"CLINT ARTHUR is Pulitzer Prize nominated author of 21 Best selling books, including Celebrity Entrepreneurship, Break Through Your Upper Limits on TV, and Wisdom Of The Men.As a speaker Clint has shared the stage with Martha Stewart, Dr Oz, Suzanne Somers, Caitlyn Jenner, IceT, and five presidents of the United States at Harvard, West Point, NASDAQ, Mercedes, Porsche, Coca Cola, Microsoft, and AT&T.He lives in New York City, Los Angeles, and Acapulco with his wife Ali and their Billion Peso Puppy, Nova.Follow Clint on...Facebook www.Facebook.com/ClintArthur Instagram www.Instagram.com/ClintArthur.TVLinkedin www.LinkedIn.com/ClintArthurYouTube www.Youtube.com/ClintArthurMari's Awakening Creativity FREE GuideMari's Awakening Creativity 7 Day Challenge

*Seasone One - Episode Four* Podcast number 4 features Pulitizer Prize writer and author John Archibald talking about pickup basketball games and his book "Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution." John and i have collaborated for over 20 years. This podcast was a few days before the "City of Brookside" story broke. He told me he was working on something big... i didn't know he was going to takd a police department down. Eric Flowers is the engineer and the very first voice you hear on the podcasts. If you're interested in producing your own podcast, contact him at CM@creed63.com.

We remember activist, scholar and social critic Todd Gitlin, who died Feb. 5 at the age of 79. He was president of SDS, the Students for a Democratic Society and helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. He continued his commitment to social change as a teacher and writer. John Powers reviews a reissue of a groundbreaking crime novel about a gay detective.Also, we'll listen back to our 1987 interview with Art Spiegelman, whose Pulitizer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about the Holocaust, is one of the books recently being banned. Finally, Justin Chang reviews the thriller Kimi directed by Steven Soderbergh.

We remember activist, scholar and social critic Todd Gitlin, who died Feb. 5 at the age of 79. He was president of SDS, the Students for a Democratic Society and helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. He continued his commitment to social change as a teacher and writer. John Powers reviews a reissue of a groundbreaking crime novel about a gay detective.Also, we'll listen back to our 1987 interview with Art Spiegelman, whose Pulitizer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about the Holocaust, is one of the books recently being banned. Finally, Justin Chang reviews the thriller Kimi directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Over the past four years, the United States Supreme Court has seen drastic changes to its members, from the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. At the end of the 2019–20 term, followers of the Supreme Court noted that a new "center" of the court was holding under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts. By the end of the 2020–21 term, much about the nation's highest court had changed, reflecting a conservative supermajority enabled by jurors nominated by President Donald Trump. Many observers of the court expect these shifts to continue and deepen, making this past year a critical pivot point in the history of the Supreme Court, and American politics as a whole. In her new book, Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitizer Prize winner and one of the best-known chroniclers of the Supreme Court of her generation, explores the end of the 2020–21 term for the court, the changes that have occurred in the past year, and what the future holds for the court in these increasingly partisan times. Greenhouse covers everything from the death of Justice Ginsburg to the rise of Justice Comey Barrett, from the pandemic to the disputed 2020 election, putting the happenings around the Supreme Court at the center of the country's partisan political disputes. Please join us for an important conversation on the U.S. Supreme Court and its increasing role in American society with a writer who knows the court and its politics as well as anyone in America. SPEAKERS Linda Greenhouse Contributing Op-Ed Writer, The New York Times; Clinical Lecturer in Law, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School; Author, Justice on the Brink In Conversation with Lara Bazelon Professor of Law and Director of Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs, University of San Francisco In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on November 30th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past four years, the United States Supreme Court has seen drastic changes to its members, from the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. At the end of the 2019–20 term, followers of the Supreme Court noted that a new "center" of the court was holding under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts. By the end of the 2020–21 term, much about the nation's highest court had changed, reflecting a conservative supermajority enabled by jurors nominated by President Donald Trump. Many observers of the court expect these shifts to continue and deepen, making this past year a critical pivot point in the history of the Supreme Court, and American politics as a whole. In her new book, Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitizer Prize winner and one of the best-known chroniclers of the Supreme Court of her generation, explores the end of the 2020–21 term for the court, the changes that have occurred in the past year, and what the future holds for the court in these increasingly partisan times. Greenhouse covers everything from the death of Justice Ginsburg to the rise of Justice Comey Barrett, from the pandemic to the disputed 2020 election, putting the happenings around the Supreme Court at the center of the country's partisan political disputes. Please join us for an important conversation on the U.S. Supreme Court and its increasing role in American society with a writer who knows the court and its politics as well as anyone in America. SPEAKERS Linda Greenhouse Contributing Op-Ed Writer, The New York Times; Clinical Lecturer in Law, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School; Author, Justice on the Brink In Conversation with Lara Bazelon Professor of Law and Director of Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs, University of San Francisco In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on November 30th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Science fiction has long been a medium for bringing light to societal issues, including religion, culture and race. It helps us imagine futures of hope and prosperity or warns of dystopian nightmares. And our experience of race plays a central role in our understanding of science fiction. “There's this amazing quote from Junot Díaz, the Pulitizer Prize-winning writer, where he basically says that if it wasn't for race, X-Men doesn't make sense. If it wasn't for the history of breeding human beings through chattel slavery, Dune doesn't make sense. If it wasn't for the history of colonialism and imperialism, Star Wars doesn't make sense, right?. If it wasn't for the extermination of so many Indigenous First Nations, most of science fiction first-contact stories don't make sense,” says C. Brandon Ogbunu. What Afrofuturism seeks to do is reimagine the future by putting the Black diaspora community at the centre. In this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks to C. Brandon Ogbunu, a computational biologist and technologist and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University. Taylor and Brandon discuss how Afrofuturism can bring about a more diverse, inclusive community of tech start-ups and tech platforms. Technology platforms are riddled with algorithmic bias, resulting from blind spots that exist within each development team. As many platforms span geographies, cultures and languages, it is increasingly important to be aware of the many potential harms that can result from the way the software is developed and deployed. Traditionally, Silicon Valley companies are managed by white males with a specific world view. “Anybody who is familiar with the technology and has ever been racially profiled would immediately see the problems there. I think the problem, the reason why this stuff was not a part of the conversation up front, is because the people designing the technology have never been affected by it,” says Ogbunu. He sees works of Afrofuturism, such as art, music and film, as vehicles to lift the sense of impossibility and constraint and to inspire Black and other under-represented communities to create and build new technologies and businesses.

William Faulkner and the Civil War - Michael Gorra The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on KSCW.  That's Barbara Dane and The Chambers Brothers playing ‘It Isn't Nice” their version of the popular politically charged gospel and civil rights song.  I hope you're enjoying a wonderful Saturday morning.  So great to be with you today, following, of course,  another excellent Community Chat with Gary Cohen, and good morning and welcome to the Not Old Better Show on KSCW.  As part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living series, we have another excellent interview today for you with author, historian, award-winning, Pulitizer Prize finalist writer Michael Gorra.  Michael Gorra will be presenting at the upcoming Smithsonian Associates program via Zoom, Sept 27, 2021, and details, and more information can be found on our website, and we'll be talking about another author, William Faulkner.   He was an uncompromising modernist, a great chronicler of the American South, and inspiration—as well as an immovable obstacle—for the generations of writers who followed. William Faulkner (1897–1962) stands as one of the greatest, and one of the most problematic figures in American literature. Faulkner was Mississippi-born—a white man of his time and place who did not always rise above it. Yet his work also provides a burning account of the intersection of race, region, and remembrance: a probing analysis of a past that we have never yet put behind us. He set almost all his work in what he called an “apocryphal” territory, the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in northern Mississippi. He carried characters and plotlines over from one book to another, as if the land itself were sprouting a story in which everything and everyone was connected.  Michael Gorra will be reading to us from his new book, ‘The Saddest Words,' so stick around for this enlightening, historical interview with Michael Gorra.   My thanks to Michael Gorra for his time, expertise, and thoughtful preparation in joining me today. My thanks to   My thanks, always, to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show.  Of course, my thanks to you, our wonderful Not Old Better Show audience here on KSCW.  Please keep your emails coming to me at info@notold-better.com.  Remember, let's talk about better.  The Not Old Better Show on KSCW.  Thanks, everybody. "But what really matters in his Mississippi isn't finally the lost war, the Lost Cause; nor is it the quarrel between the mythic grace of the Old South and the grasping hands of the New. What matters are all of the wasted years since. What matters is the century between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The legacy--the final meaning--of the Civil War lives on in the things undone, the work unfinished and the wounds unbound; it lives in the continued resistance to any attempt at amelioration. It lives in our quarrels; it lives today in the battle of the blue and the red." FOR MORE DETAILS, PLEASE CLICK HERE:  https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/subscriptions/series/?id=175498&utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2021FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&tmssource=254086

Episode 435 also includes an E.W. Essay titled "Docile." Our Associate Producer Dr. Michael Pavese shares five poems written by Japanese school children about Hiroshima from a collection titled "When I Was Small." We have an E.W. poem called "Purpose."  Our music this go round is provided by these wonderful artists: Thelonious Monk, Linda Lyndell, Declan McKenna, Neko Case, the Five Stairsteps, Sublime, Branford Marsalis and Terence Blanchard.  Commercial Free, Small Batch Radio Crafted in the West Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania... Heard All Over The World.

Composer/Performer/Educator, TYRONE JACKSON is the quintessential jazz piano player. His boundless creativity coupled with harmonic mastery, utilizes the piano as a blank canvas. Jackson is nationally recognized and has traveled the world as a solo artist and sideman. As a composer, Jackson has composed original music for Pulitizer Prize winning author Natasha Tretheway's book of poems "Native Guard" turned theatrical play, Pearl Clege's play, "Tell Me My Dream", "Ethel" and this year's Alliance Theater production of “Nick's Flamingo Grill.” Jackson has recorded 4 Albums—“Dedicated”, “Another Voyage”, “Melody In Nede”, and new release “From The Mind Of.” Currently Tyrone Jackson is a professor at Kennesaw State University where he is Lecturer of Jazz Piano and teaches a myriad of classes including: Aural Skills III & IV, Jazz Improvisation I, II & III, Jazz Combo, Jazz Theory, Applied Jazz Piano, Group Jazz Piano and History of the Blues. Jackson is also a clinician and teacher for the Rialto Arts Jazz program for middle school and is a clinician for Clayton County Arts Association. Follow us on all social media JazzMattersATL. Don't forget to Subscribe, Like & Share. To learn more about Jazz Matters ATL, The Jazz Matters Store or become a Supporter, visit https://www.linktree/jazzmattersatl #yesjazzmatters #jazzmattersatl #jazz #jazzmusic #jazzmatters #atljazz #atlantajazz #atllivemusic #atlantaconcerts #jazzradio #livemusic #smoothjazz #jazzbass #contemporaryjazz #jazzfunk #jazzfusion #jazzlife #jazzlover #jazzmusician #jazzeducation #composer #pianist --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jazz-matters/support

Vito Genovese – The Deadly Don Gary interviews Pulitizer Prize-winning Anthony DeStefano on his most recent true crime history, The Deadly Don. Mr. DeStefano writes about the rise and fall of Vito Genovese. This is... The post Vito Genovese with Anthony DeStefano appeared first on Gangland Wire.

Rattlecast #96 features the editor of Light poetry magazine, Melissa Balmain. As always, the first half-hour will feature Poets Respond Live. Melissa Balmain is a humorist, journalist, and teacher. Since 2012 she has edited Light, the country's longest-running journal of light verse (founded in 1992 by John Mella). Balmain's poems have appeared in The American Bystander, American Life in Poetry, The Hopkins Review, Lighten Up Online, Literary Matters, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, The New Criterion, The New Verse News, Poetry Daily, Rattle, The Spectator (UK), Verse Daily, The Washington Post, and many anthologies; her prose in The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney's, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. A former columnist for Success magazine and other publications, she's the author of a memoir, Just Us: Adventures of a Mother and Daughter (Faber and Faber). Balmain has received national honors for her journalism, including the National Society for Newspaper Columnists humorous columnist award and multiple Pulitizer Prize nominations. She teaches at the University of Rochester and lives nearby with her husband and two children. Her poetry collection Walking in on People was chosen by X.J. Kennedy for the Able Muse Book Award. Her newest collection is The Witch Demands a Retraction: Fairy-Tale Reboots for Adults, illustrated by Ron Barrett (Humorist Books). For more on the author, and to order the book, visit: https://www.melissabalmain.com/ Visit Light poetry magazine here: https://lightpoetrymagazine.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a a poem in which an inanimate object or concept is personified. (See “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath for a great example.) Next Week's Prompt: A pivotal moment in your childhood. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Ali Velshi is joined by former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, former RNC Chair Michael Steele, former Republican consultant Shermichael Singleton, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia, Pulitizer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett, president of the Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer, author and attorney Hannibal B. Johnson, Tony Award-winning director and producer Bartlett Sher, and Arizona Republic reporter Jen Fifield.

In this episode, Pulitizer Prize nominee Dael Orlandersmith, writer, performer and theatre maker, discusses the experiences and ideas which inform much–praised works like Forever, Beauty's Daughter and Yellowman. She is interviewed by Professor Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway. Dael Orlandersmith's First Thought Talk was recorded in front of a live audience during the 2019 Galway International Arts Festival.

An in-depth conversation with author, psychologist, buisnessman and Pulitizer Prize-nominated poet, John Wareham. There was so much to talk about - and we gave it a good go! We talked about his books (novels, memoirs, a play, poetry) and his new podcast that he started over lockdown. We talked about his famous children (including writer Louise and musician Dean). We talked about his time in America and returning to New Zealand. We discussed prison reform, addiction. We gave it a good go at getting through so many of his life's obsessions. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

An in-depth conversation with author, psychologist, buisnessman and Pulitizer Prize-nominated poet, John Wareham. There was so much to talk about - and we gave it a good go! We talked about his books (novels, memoirs, a play, poetry) and his new podcast that he started over lockdown. We talked about his famous children (including writer Louise and musician Dean). We talked about his time in America and returning to New Zealand. We discussed prison reform, addiction. We gave it a good go at getting through so many of his life's obsessions.

The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas--has transformed the American economy, ending the "era of shortage", but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse-and, during the coronavirus crisis, brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern about usica role in climate change is challenging the global economy and our way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought. World politics is being upended, as a new cold war develops between the United States and China, and the rivalry grows more dangerous with Russia. Pulitizer Prize winner, Daniel Yergin, ties these strands together talking about his New Book, The New Map with Michael Avery.

Midday theater critic J.Wynn Rousuck joins us again today with her reviews of two new films produced and now streaming on Netflix, that spotlight the extraordinary work of the late, two-time Pulitizer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson.  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is one of 10 plays August Wilson wrote chronicling the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th Century.  The 1984 work centers on a group of Black musicians in 1920s Chicago who are playing a recording session with the legendary blues singer, Ma Rainey, as they also confront the racial prejudice and economic challenges of their day.  The new Netflix film adaptation, directed by George C. Wolfe, stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman, in his last role before he succumbed last year to cancer.  The other new Netflix film is called Giving Voice. The documentary by James Stern and Fernando Villena follows a group of high-school student actors who become contestants in the prestigious August Wilson Monologue Competition, sponsored by collaborating theaters across the country, whose prize is an opporunity to perform on Broadway. J.Wynn Rousuck joins Tom on Skype. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An Appalachian coal town of under 400 with a tiny drugstore making so much money selling opioids that the owner served popcorn to the throngs waiting in long lines for their pills. What happened in Kermit, West Virginia is a story of America’s poor being exploited for profit by corporations headquartered hundreds of miles away. Eric Eyre's Pulitizer Prize winning reporting opened the country’s eyes to an epidemic that has taken nearly a million lives.  Eyre has written a book but the original work for was for a small-town paper in Charleston, West Virginia — the kind dwindling from the media landscape as big media companies take over. His work is a triumph of the kind of investigative journalism that often comes from local papers but sadly, we are seeing the end of an era. 

Kalie and Jane tackle the 1992 film version of David Mamet's Pulitizer Prize winning play Glengarry Glen Ross this week. Be prepared for discussions of shouty men and capitalism!! Remember coffee is for Pacino Pod listeners only

Biographer Benjamin Moser talks with Robert Boynton about the making of  his 2019 biography of Susan Sontag, which was awarded to Pulitizer Prize. Moser’s previous book, a biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

On this episode we clock the tea on the origin of Fightin' Mad Mary, Nads, Pulitizer Prize winning guests of the pod, new music dropping, Purple Rain, The Breakfast Club movie, Tyra, cancel culture, The Clark Sisters in the kitchen, The Last Dance, accountability, the Hey Boo Of The Week Sports Segment, Boman and much, much more. Please listen to us on Spotify! You can become a Patreon Saint at www.patreon.com/whatstheteapod Visit our website www.whatstheteapod.com Follow us on Twitter @R2ThaEdgy @nicju @gooddaysaints #WTTPod Send us an email gooddaysaints@gmail.com Leave us a voicemail 302-570-0832 (0TEA)

A “very stable genius” is how Donald Trump describes himself and is the title of the New York Times bestsellling book of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. This week on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show a conversation with Washington Post White House bureau chief and author Philip Rucker. And, as we do every week Halli and her partner in politics, former White House correspondent, Matthew Cooper, slice and dice all things politics, from the South Carolina debate to the Coronavirus, and that's just where we begin. Join us at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com or find us on all your favorite apps.Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, leading its coverage of President Trump and his administration. He and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their reporting on Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. And now, Rucker and Pulitizer Prize winner fellow Washington Post reporter, Carol Loennig, examine the evolution of Trump's presidency and leadership style and take readers behind the scenes to reveal never-before reported details of Trump's shocking behavior with new evidence of chaos in his administration in their New York Times best-selling book A VERY STABLE GENIUS, DONALD J. TRUMP'S TESTING OF AMERICA. What a book, what a conversation, tune in.A conversation with Washington Post White House bureau chief and author of the New York Times bestselling book A VERY STABLE GENIUS, DONALD J. TRUMP'S TESTING OF AMERICA, Philip Rucker, and former White House correspondent Matthew Cooper bring you all the political news, the latest on the Coronavirus, the Democratic Party's contest for their presidential nominee, Roger Stone, Biden, Sanders, Bloomberg. And that's just where we begin this week on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show podcast, always available at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com and via all your favorite apps. LISTEN HERE >> http://bit.ly/2TnGhvQ

The late Senator Howard Baker Jr. '43 would tell current Senators to “listen eloquently,” during the upcoming Senate trial of President Trump, Pulitizer Prize historian Jon Meacham '87 says in this timely discussion of Senator Baker. “Baker once said, ‘One of the keys to life is to listen eloquently . . . because it is just possible that the other guy might have something to offer,” Mr. Meacham said. In this discussion, he joins Dr. Duke Richey '86, Senator Howard Baker Jr. Chair of American History at McCallie, and McCallie Headmaster Lee Burns '87. They offer compelling insight into Senator Baker’s role in the Watergate hearings and speculate on what advice Senator Baker would offer Senators today.

In this edition of the Thinking Out Loud Radio Show, we are going to be talking to legendary and iconic journalist and columnist Rochelle Riley; who is also the newly appointed Director of Arts & Culture for the City of Detroit. Force of nature Rochelle Riley is an author, essayist, blogger and children's advocate who spent nearly a quarter of century as a columnist when she left in 2019 to focus on arts, culture and entertainment. She is now the Director of Arts and Culture for the city of Detroit. She left journalism with a bang, getting inducted into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame. She is author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery,” which has garnered rave reviews, and the upcoming “That They Lived: Twenty African Americans Who Changed The World.” (WSU Press 2020). She travels the country hosting conversations about the burden that America still bears because it refuses to deal with the aftermath of slavery.  In additon to discussing her iconic career, we will also be discussing the resurgance of the Motor City and what is her vision as the newly appointed Director of Arts & Culture. We will also be talking the NBA Finals, plus some of the week's hotest topics, and a topping it off with a dyniamc Thought of the Week. So, this is definitely a show you don't want to miss.

Anthony M. DeStefano Anthony M. DeStefano is a New York City journalist who specializes in legal affairs, criminal justice and organized crime. He is the author of "The Big Heist", published in June 2017;"Gangland New York: The Places And Faces of Mob History, published in July 2015; "Vinny Gorgeous: The Ugly Rise and Fall Of A New York Mobster," published in July 2013; "The Last Godfather" "King of the Godfathers" and "Mob Killer," the latter of which was released in June 2011. He also authored "The War On Human Trafficking," published by Rutgers University Press. As a member of the staff of Newsday, Mr. DeStefano was on a team of reporters who won the Pulitizer Prize for spot news in 1992 for the newspapers coverage of the Union Square subway crash (1991). In connection with his work, he has traveled to Europe and South America. He also speaks at academic conferences about crime and human trafficking. As part of promotional work for "Gangland New York", Mr. DeStefano has appeared on WPIX-TV in New York City, NY1 in New York City, as well as WVOX radio in New Rochelle and The Frank Morano Show on 970AM. Recently, he has appeared on the Biography Channel and Sundance Channel and is scheduled to appear in an upcoming cable series as an expert commentator about organized crime in New York City. The highlight of his career ? Being a frequent guest on True Crime Uncensored. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/burl-barer/support

"The Future of the Supreme Court and Justice in the United States" was the topic discussed Thursday night in Lenox, as part of The Berkshire Eagle's Conversation Series. The event featured Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times, center, and retired Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Judge Francis X. Spina, right. Eagle co-owner and Publisher Fredric Rutberg, left, was the moderator. Recorded by Mark Mills

Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch ruled against the Administration on a major immigration case, is he another David Souter?The Washington Post and New York Times were awarded a Pulitizer Prize for their fake news of Russia collusion hoax.And the president is now surrounded by neocons and war hawks, can he keep his campaign promises and resist the dogs of war.

Andy and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Mike Vitez discussed some of Mike's all-time favorite health-related stories, what makes a good story, and how narrative medicine will shape the future of healthcare.

American Libraries magazine is back with another installment of the Dewey Decibel podcast, and this time host Phil Morehart is taking on the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Episode Three features interviews with Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Carnegie Medal– and Pulitizer Prize–winning novel "The Sympathizer," and Nancy Pearl, renowned librarian, literary critic, and Carnegie Medals committee chair. The awards, cosponsored by Booklist and the American Library Association’s (ALA) Reference and User Services Association, were announced in January. Carnegie Medal winners Nguyen and Sally Mann (for the nonfiction book "Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs") will be honored at ALA’s 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, June 25. Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose confessional thriller is set in the years following the Vietnam War, talks to Phil about why he chose to tell his story as a spy novel and how he conceived his main character (“I thought of him like a bad James Bond”). He shares how growing up as a refugee in San José, California, influenced the book, and why, in researching his novel, he wanted to learn as much as he could about the making of the film "Apocalypse Now." Nancy Pearl, chair of the Carnegie Medals nominating committee, explains who makes up the committee, how the nomination process works (“it’s not that formal”), and which lists are consulted for finalists. She talks about the difference between an enjoyable book and an important book—and what made "The Sympathizer" and "Hold Still" stand out.

The scene: 1950s Los Angeles, a land of sunshine and shadows. A time when Hollywood sparkled and glamour girls like Lana Turner seduced. Leading men and tough guys Frank Sinatra and John Garfield sauntered into Chasen's, the watering hole of choice for high-rung Hollywood names. But L.A. was never all blue skies and make-believe. Beneath the glitter there was grit. La La Land was about big business and big deals: films, real estate, politics, and crime. In the red leather banquettes of Beverly Hills and in the smoke-filled rooms of joints on the Sunset Strip, some deals would be made with a pen and a handshake, while others with a slug and a gun. When the sun went down, the stars come out -- and so did the Hoods. LA Sunshine turned into LA Noir—home of one of America's most notorious gangsters – Mickey Cohen. This week The Halli Casser-Jayne Show will explore the shadowy underworld of 1950s Los Angeles with Pulitizer Prize nominee and investigative journalist Gus Russo, author of Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers; with Tere Tereba, author of Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster; with Director of Education Dr. J. Victor McGuire, Ph.D from the Mob Museum in Las Vegas; and with John Buntin, crime and urban affairs writer at Governing Magazine and author of LA Noir, the story of the Los Angeles underbelly and America's most admired—and reviled—police department: The LAPD.

"...and 9/11 happened in front of their faces, I mean you just look out the window and there are these buildings tumbling down, and the news people took it personally and were reacting to in the sense that they felt that, sort of  revenge, or preventing another attack was really necessary." Peter Arnett speaking about the failure of journalists during the leadup to the invasion of Iraq on a January 2006 edition of Tell Somebody  "...and we have remained at war ever since, visiting upon our enemies the vengeance they were due, and providing for the American people the common defense they demand." Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Admiral Mike Mullen speaking on the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. KKFI and Pacifica coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 demonstrated that is actually is possible to look back at 9/11 without giving deferential and uncritical airtime to the likes of Dick Cheney and Rudy Giulliani, and without swamping thoughtful rememberance and reflection with the plague of phony, jingoistic "patriotism." On the September 13, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, I decided to re-air the 2006 interview I recorded with Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett. Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   

Russell Banks reads his short story "Lobster Night", first published in 2000. His novels include The Reserve, The Darling, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter, Affliction, and Continental Drift.  Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift were finalists for the Pulitizer Prize.  Russell Banks lives in Saratoga Springs, NY. He spoke at Wellesley College's Newhouse Center for the Humanities on October 26, 2010.

An interview with Susan Morgan Cooper, a documentary filmmaker, about her latest film, a profile of Pulitizer-Prize winning photographer Eddie Adams. "An Unlikely Weapon," profiles the life of Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams, who shot the iconic photograph of national police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting to death a captured Viet Cong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street in 1968. The photograph, capturing the shooting at the exact moment of impact, won Adams a Pulitzer Prize. The photograph was credited with turning the American public against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Adams, after the war, also documented the plight of Vietnamese refugees leaving their homeland. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host. Copyright c 2009

Tune in to hear Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist and author Edward Humes discuss his new book, "Monkey Girl," on Freethought Radio. The book chronicles the saga of the creationist trial in Dover, Penn., resulting in the recent landmark federal decision against "intelligent design" instruction in public schools. The show also includes discussion of timely state/church topics, including this week's antiabortion decision by the Catholic-dominated Supreme Court, and the efficacy of prayer in the face of gun violence. "Freethinkers Almanac" looks at the unorthodoxy of Shakespeare, born on April 23. Freethought Radio is co-hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. (MP3, 51 min, 23 MB)

Seymour Hersh, Pulitizer Prize-winning reporter and author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib discusses Iran, Iraq, Bush and torture.