On 4 August John Fletcher hosted Booktown.
In the first half of the program he played an interview with Catherine Stifter which I recorded last week. A radio producer for the last 30 years, Catherine has been a blogger for the last five. She has recently combined both interests, creating a website and blog to accompany her recent radio documentary Saving the Sierra. She will conduct workshops on blogging at the 4th Annual Sacramento State Summer Writers Conference on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August. You can get a foretaste of her presentation by going to the blog she has created for the Conference.
In the second half of the program John talked with Francisco Lovato about his book Survivor, which describes his father Frank's ordeal during the Bataan Death March in World War II.
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Monday 21 July 2008: David Carle/Lisa Margonelli
On 21 July I talked with David Carle about his recently published Introduction to Fire in California (University of California Press) and about our current fire season. I interviewed Carle about his earlier Introduction to Air in California (also UC Press) on 27 November 2006. UC Press has also published his Introduction to Water in California and they have a book about Earth in California in the works.
I then talked with Lisa Margonelli about her book Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, the paperback edition of which was recently published by Broadway Books.
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Monday 7 July 2008: Jennifer Heath
On 7 July I talked with Jennifer Heath, editor of The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press). Ms Heath has also created a traveling art exhibition The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces to complement the book. You can find out more about both book and exhibition at theveilbook.com.
I intended to also interview Anne Walthall, editor of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (also UC Press) but wasn't able to contact her in time. It's an interesting book that in some ways complements The Veil. Between the two books you come away with a different view of the meaning in Islam of harem, which literally means 'sanctuary' or 'forbidden space'.
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