What are local communities doing to connect African Americans to their cultural heritage? In honor of Black History Month, we’ll talk to Safisha Hill, Director of Education for The Act of Change, and Sarah Walker, President of the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society. How do race, culture and personal experience impact architecture? In […]
What makes a writer a writer, and how can a great teacher influence the arc of a writer’s career? We’ll spend this hour with playwright, author, screenwriter, actor, director Doug Wright and Linda Raya, the Highland Park High School Fine Arts director and theatre teacher who instructed Doug when he was a student at the […]
Is there a simpler (or at least more formulaic) way to negotiate the pitfalls of marriage? According to our guest this hour, economics could be the key. We’ll talk with Jenny Anderson, New York Times reporter and co-author of the new book “Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes” (Random House, 2011).
What do women in developing and war-torn countries face as they try to build independent and better lives for their families and themselves? We’ll talk this hour with Zainab Salbi, former member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle and founder of and president of Women for Women International. She’ll address the Global Outreach Forum and accept […]
How and where did the American women’s movement begin? We’ll look back at the mid-20th Century this hour and explore the lives of our mothers and grandmothers with Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families. Her new book is “A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women […]
What would happen if our injuries, suffering and sicknesses began to glow? The phenomenon is a key element in novelist Kevin Brockmeier’s latest book “The Illumination: A Novel” (Pantheon, 2011). Brockmeier, who speaks to the Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live series this Friday, will be our guest this hour.
How will the United States deal with Iran, China and other countries with growing geopolitical influence and how fast will those relationships change? We’ll talk this hour with George Friedman, president and CEO of STRATFOR – a private intelligence company. His new book is “The Next Decade: Where We’ve Been…and Where We’re Going” (Doubleday, 2011).
What’s it really like to wait for your loved one to return from military service overseas? What’s it like when they do return? We’ll talk this hour with writer Siobhan Fallon, whose husband did two tours of duty in Iraq himself. Her new collection of stories is called “You Know When the Men Are Gone” […]
What does “old” really mean? We’ll explore the concept of aging this hour with someone who sees it every day – Marc E. Agronin, MD, adult and geriatric psychiatrist and Medical Director for Mental Health and Clinical Research at Miami Jewish Health Systems. His new book is “How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the […]
Who was the real man behind the legendary conqueror Alexander the great? We’ll explore the achievements of the famous Macedonian king this hour with Philip Freeman, Qualley Professor of Classics at Luther College in Decorah, Illinois. Freeman’s new biography is “Alexander the Great” (Simon & Schuster).
