Escaping A Nightmare
February 11, 2014We’ll talk this hour to Shyima Hall about her memoir, Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave.
We’ll talk this hour to Shyima Hall about her memoir, Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave.
Hour 1: Anna Quindlen talks about her newest book, Still Life With Bread Crumbs: A Novel, ahead of her appearance tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art for Arts & Letters Live.
Hour 2: We’ll talk about sustainable architecture this hour with Ed Mazria of architecture2030 and Thom Powell of Good, Fulton & Farrell. AIA Dallas hosts a discussion of sustainable architecture tonight at the headquarters of HKS Architects.
Hour 1: In the 1950s and ’60s, Mississippi developed a secret spy agency charged with preserving segregation. We’ll talk this hour about the impact of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission with Rick Bowers, author of Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement.
Hour 2: We’ll talk to Leah Vincent this hour about being rejected by her family when she sought to embrace the wider world, which she chronicles in her memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood.
Hour 1: As part of KERA’s One Crisis Away initiative, we’ll talk with Dwain Schenck, author of Reset: How to Beat the Job-Loss Blues and Get Ready for Your Next Act.
Hour 2: We’ll find out this hour how processed foods have nudged nature off the shelves and how we can reverse the trend with Jeannie Marshall, author of The Lost Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me About Why Children Need Real Food.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and gay-rights activist. Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, we’ll talk to her about her difficult relationship with the country of her birth.
In 2002, David Stuart MacLean woke up on a trip to India to the realization he had no idea who he was or why he was there.
Hour 2: This hour we’ll talk to best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell about his latest book, ‘David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.’