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On Monday 26 December 2011, Booktown's Readers Panel got together to discuss their favorite books they read in 2011.John DeaderickShakespeare by Peter AckroydMy Name is Will by Jess WinfieldThe Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiWolf Hall by Hilary MantelAlison Jones-PomattoThe Art of Fielding by Chad HarbachThe Tiger's Wife by Tea ObrehtThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob

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On Thursday 7 July 2011, I talked with Santa Cruz teacher and writer Sarah Juniper Rabkin about her recent book What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding a Home in the World (Juniper Lake Press). She will read from and sign her book at 2 PM on Saturday 16 July at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive, Grass Valley.To hear the interview, click here.

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On Sunday 23 January 2011, Booktown's Readers Panel got together to discuss their favorite books they read in 2010. John DeaderickThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (with a nod to her Oryx and Crake)Star Island by Carl HiaasenLatro in the Mist by Gene Wolfe Cameron Cobden Malazan Book of the Fallen (10 volumes) by Steven

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On Sunday 9 January 2011I talked with Nevada City/Sacramento novelist Bill Pieper about his latest novel What You Wish For (Strategic Book Group). He will read from and sign his book at 2 PM on Saturday 22 January at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive, Grass Valley.To hear this interview, click here.I talked with Bill about his earlier novel Gomez on 23 January 2006.

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On Monday 13 December 2010 I talked with Nevada County author Hock G Tjoa about his new book The Battle of Chibi (Red Cliffs), a translation of central chapters of the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He will read from and sign his book at 2 PM on Saturday 18 December at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive, Grass Valley.To hear this interview, click here.

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On Wednesday 10 November I recorded an interview with Santa Monica author (and former Nevada County resident) Susan Suntree about her most recent book Sacred Sites: The Hidden History of Southern California (University of Nebraska Press). Ms Suntree will appear at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive in Grass Valley at 2 PM on Saturday 13 November to discuss and sign copies

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The radio program Booktown has ended but I will still occasionally post some audio interviews and written comments about books that interest me. The first few look like they will have to do with books about China and the Chinese.On Monday 6 September 2010 I recorded an interview with San Francisco author Trina Robbins about her recent book Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (

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On 2 August I tried to close the circle opened when the first Booktown was broadcast ten years ago. On that program I discussed The Age of Spiritual Machines, one of several books in which inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil claims that the speed of technological change is increasing so rapidly that by 2020 we will a reach a 'singularity', a state in which human consciousness and technical ability

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On 19 July I talked with Booktown's readers panel about their favorite books of the last decade, which is also the century so far.Alison Jones-PomattoCity of Thieves by David BenioffPlainsong by Kent HarufRules for Old Men Waiting by Peter PounceyThe Tender Bar by J R MoehringerThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan

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On 5 July I talked with Nevada County poet, editor, ethnopharmacologist and now novelist Dale Pendell about his new novel The Great Bay (North Atlantic). I had previously talked with Dale about his books Pharmako/Poeia, Pharmako/Dynamis and Pharmako/Gnosis (24 May 2006) ( all originally published by Mercury House, now available from North Atlantic) and Walking with Nobby (18 February 2008) (

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On 21 June I talked with New York University history professor Greg Grandin about his book Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, which has just come out in paperback from Picador; with James Mauro about his recent book Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World's Fair on the Brink of War (Balantine) and with Nevada County

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On 7 June I talked with Tim O'Keefe, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, about his book Epicureanism, which is part of University of California Press's Ancient Philosophies series. We went on to attempt a crash course in ancient Greek (and Roman) philosophy touching on the material in several other books in the series: Presocratics by James Warren, Cynics by William

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On 24 May I talked with math educator Michael S Schneider about his book A Beginner's Guide to constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art and Science (published in 1994 by HarperCollins).I then talked with science journalist Manjit Kumar about his new book Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality (W W Norton).You could call this the

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On 10 May I talked with former Sacramento Bee editor and columnist Peter Schrag about his new book Not Fit for Our Society:Immigration and Nativism in America (University of California Press). I previously talked with him about Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future (unfortunately not recorded) and about California: America's High-Stakes Experiment on 1 May 2006.UC Press has

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On 26 April I talked with Alice Albinia about her prize-winning book Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, which has just been published in paperback by WW Norton. Ms Albinia will be appearing from 4 to 7 PM next Sunday 2 May at the Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street in San Jose; more information from Ijaz Syed (408-838-0952) or Rehman Kakepoto (916-968-4991). She will be

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On 12 April I talked with poet Judith Tannenbaum about the new memoir By Heart: Poetry, Prison and Two Lives (New Village Press), which she co-wrote with poet Spoon Jackson, who is serving a life without parole sentence in the California prison system. She will appear at the Broad Street Bistro in Nevada City at 7 PM on Saturday 24 April.I then talked with Nevada County author Chris Enss about

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On 29 March I talked with Tracy Daugherty, Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University, about his book Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthleme, which has recently come out in paperback from Picador. Come Back Dr Caligari, The Dead Father, City Life and Overnight to Distant Cities were some of Barthleme's books we discussed; there are many more.I then

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I will be giving up Booktown at the beginning of August, almost exactly ten years after it first went on the air on KVMR. Most of the programs in the next few months will concentrate on particular publishers whose books I have enjoyed reading in the past decade or on particular topics which may interest me more than you the listeners (though I hope not). You could call this the American

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On 1 March I talked with Nevada City poet Molly Fisk about her new book The More Difficult Beauty (Hip Pocket Press). Molly will appear at a book launch reading, signing and party at 4 PM on Saturday 13 March at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters, 671 Maltman Drive in Grass Valley.I then talked with cultural heritage tourism specialist Penelope Curtis and author and publisher David Comstock about

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On 15 February I talked with the author/editor/translators of two compendiums of world literature: first with Peter Constantine, one of the editors and translators of The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (W W Norton); then with Dennis Tedlock, author and translator of 2000 Years of Mayan Literature (University of California Press).To hear this program, click here.

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On 1 February Booktown was pre-empted by an extension of KVMR's membership drive.

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On 18 January Booktown was pre-empted for KVMR's special Martin Luther King Day programming.

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On 4 January I talked with economist Raj Patel about his new book The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy (Picador) and with Matt Roney, a research staffer at the Earth Policy Institute, about Plan B 4.0 (W W Norton) by the EPI's president Lester R Brown.To hear this program, click here.

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On 21 December Booktown's Readers Panel got together to discuss their favorite books of the year.Cameron Cobden couldn't get off work so I recorded some of her comments the day before (the wifi connection failed after a minute and I had to summarize most of what she said). As the working mother of a 1 1/2 year old, she only had time to read a few books and could only recommend one of these:Freddy

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On 7 December I featured books published by the University of California Press. Over the past decade I have talked with more UC Press authors than those of any other publisher. On this program I tried to emphasize the wide range of subjects UC Press covers. The three authors I talked with all write in a very personal manner unlike what you might expect from an academic press. On each of their

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On 23 November I talked with four Nevada County authors about their recent books: Samuel Provenzano about his collection of stories Blood Pudding: Short Stories in Black and White: Joyce M Wilson about her novel Kid*Napped; Pamela Johnson about her novel Heart of a Pirate: a Novel of Anne Bonny; and Jimmi Accardi about his memoir Brooklyn Boy.To hear this program, click here.

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On 9 November I talked with novelist, poet and screenwriter Paul Auster. The conversation centered on his new novel Invisible (Henry Holt), but we also mentioned the earlier novels Moon Palace, Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, The Brooklyn Follies and Man in the Dark and the movie Smoke.I then talked with Santa Rosa author David Comfort about his recent book The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead:

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On 26 October I talked with two authors with unique perspectives on California history.I first spoke with Kevin Nelson about his book Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 M.P.H. The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile (Heyday Books). The author will speak at 4 PM on Wednesday 28 October at the Book Seller in Grass Valley. He will also appear at 6 PM on Wednesday 4 November at the

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On 28 September I talked with Oakland poet Kim Addonizio about her new book of poems Lucifer at the Starlite (W W Norton). We also talked a bit about her recent book on the craft of poetry Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within ( also Norton). She will appear at City Lights Books in San Francisco at 7 PM on Wednesday 30 September.I then played an interview I recorded last week with

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On 14 September I talked with English biographer Richard Holmes about his new book The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon). I then talked with University of North Carolina at Charlotte Professor of Anthropology Jonathan Marks about his recent book Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Human Knowledge (University of California

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On 31 August John Fletcher talked with marine archeologist James P Delgado about his recent book Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada (University of California Press, which also recently published his Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archeology of San Francisco's Waterfront). He then talked with Nevada County author Diane Pendola about her new book The Lioness Tale (iUniverse),

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On 17 August I talked with Booktown's Brooklyn correspondent Erin Rogers about her current reading. We discussed Cesar Aira's Ghosts, John Berger's From A to X and G, Joan Didion's Where I Was From and John Barth's Chimera.I then talked with Booktown's Mumbai correspondent Siddhartha Lokanandi about the works of Brooklyn's novelist laureate Paul Auster, whom I plan to interview in November.To

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On 3 August I talked with noted science writer Carl Zimmer about his book Microcosm: E coli and the New Science of Life, which has jut come out in paperback from Vintage Books.I then talked with Bill Gainer of the Nevada County Poetry Series and with poets Julie Valin, Shawn Aveningo and Marilyn Souza, who will read at the NCPS's Rent Party fundraiser at 7:30 PM on Saturday 8 August at the

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On 20 July I talked with Flora Drew, translator of Ma Jian's powerful novel Beijing Coma, which has just been published in paperback by Picador.Ithen talked with well-known Celtic harpist and storyteller Patrick Ball about the upcoming Sierra Storytelling Festival.To hear this program, click here.

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On 6 July I talked with D A Henderson, MD, currently Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, about his recent book Smallpox: The Death of a Disease (Prometheus Books). Dr Henderson was chief of the World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Program from 1966 to 1977.I then talked with Stanford University Biology Professor Joan Roughgarden about her books

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On 22 June I talked with New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer about her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Became a War On American Ideals, which has recently been published in paperback by Anchor Books. Ms Mayer will appear at the Los Angeles Public Library in L A on Tuesday 30 June and at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Wednesday 1 July.I then talked with

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On 8 June Booktown was pre-empted for a KVMR membership drive, which did quite well. Thank you all.

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On 25 May I talked with British journalist and author Misha Glenny about his book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld, which has just been released in paperback by Vintage Books.I then talked with KVMR broadcaster and activist Cheri Snook about Words of Realness, a concert featuring musical settings of poems by New Folsom Prison inmate Spoon Jackson, which will take place at

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I was out of town on 11 May so KVMR played a program I recorded last week. First came an interview with journalist and author Tony Horwitz about his book A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, which has just come out in paperback from Picador. I then played the beginning of a talk which Douglas Adams, who was born on 11 May 1952 (this should be a National if not a Galactic

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On 27 April I helped celebrate April, which is National Soft Pretzel Month, National STDs Awareness Month, National Poetry Month, Fresh Florida Tomato Month and more, by playing LPs, CDs and selections from poets.org of spoken poetry. After LPs of John F C Richards reading the opening passages of Virgil's Aeneid and Stanley Kunitz and Andrei Voznesensky reading English and Russian versions of

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On 13 April I talked with Andrew Sean Greer about his most recent novel The Story of a Marriage, which has just been releasd in paperback by Picador. We also touched on his earlier novel The Confessions of Max Tivoli (also Picador). Some common themes between The Story of a Marriage and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier came up in the conversation. Andrew Sean Greer will appear at 1 PM on Monday

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On 30 March I talked with Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, about her most receont book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, which has just been published in paperback by W W Norton. Mary Roach will appear at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley at 7 PM on Thursday 9 April in an event co-sponsored by Literature

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On 16 March I talked with journalist Pico Iyer about his book The Open Road:The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, which has just come out in paperback from Vintage Books. Before the interview I briefly mentioned Iyer's earlier book The Global Soul (Knopf/Vintage).I then talked with Nevada City marriage counselor and poet Belden Johnson about his new novel Fathers and Teachers (

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On 2 March I talked with Robert Tindall about his new book The Jaguar That Roams the Mind: An Amazoniam Plant Spirit Odyssey. Tindall and his wife Susana Bustos will talk on Encompassing the Amazon: Ayahuasca, Vegetalismo & Cultural Survival (Inner Traditions/Park Street Press) at 7:30 PM on Saturday 7 March at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center. More information at 265-I then talked

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The 16 February program focused on the difficulties of our so-called economic system, especially for working people, and the possibilities of a more cooperative approach.I first talked with New York Times labor and workplace correspondent Steven Greenhouse, whose book The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker has just come out in paperback from Anchor Books.I then talked with

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Booktown was pre-empted again, this time for a KVMR membership drive (please join up if you're not already a member). I had planned to feature the paperback reprints of two books that deal with the convolutions of American popular culture: David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America and Al (formerly A.) Alvarez' The Biggest Game in Town, a 1983

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The on air version of Booktown for 19 January has been pre-empted for special Martin Luther King Day programming. Since I had already arranged some interviews before remembering this (it's only happened every year since Booktown began), I contacted the authors to see if they were willing to appear in an online only Booktown. They were.I first talked with Amy Chua, John Duff Jr Professor of Law

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On 5 January I talked with Jim Huth, usually known around Nevada County as Key Man Jim, about his new book Looking Back: My Spiritual Odyssey (Carl Mautz Publishing), in which he details thirty years of studying and teaching out-of-body experiences, firewalking, shamanism and Native American spirituality. In the book and in our conversation Jim refers to Robert Monroe, author of Journeys Out of

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On 22 December our Readers Panel tried to assemble again to talk about our favorite books we'd read in 2008. But Cameron Cobden was stuck at JFK airport and couldn't call in (I relayed the books she'd mentioned to me the day before) and Alison Jones-Pomatto was working at the Book Seller and could only call in briefly. John Deaderick and I listened to their choices in the KVMR studio and then

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On 8 December I talked with Daniel Everett, chair of the Languages, Literatures and Cultures department at Illinois State University, about his new book Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amaonian Jungle (Pantheon), which describes the 30 years he spent among the 300-strong Piraha people, who have one of the most unusual lifestyles and languages in the world.I then planned to

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On 24 November I talked with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about his book A Great Idea at the Time, a lively history of the Great Books program which has just been published by PublicAffairs. Alex and I have been discussing the progress of the book since he first started working on it in late 2006. Our first conversation broadcast on 2 October 2006, our second on 5 March 2007, our third on 23

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On 10 November I talked with David Young, Longman Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College, about his new book Du Fu: A Life in Poetry (Knopf). In addition to his own books of poetry, Young has translated Petrarch, Rilke, Miroslav Holub and several Chinese poets. His latest book arranges the poems of Du Fu, whom the Chinese consider their greatest poet, to create a

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On 27 October I talked with New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross about his book The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, which has just come out in paperback from Picador. Ross has a website which contains his columns, blogs, a glossary and musical examples from the book.I then talked with David Peattie, publisher of Berkeley's Wheaeabouts Press about their series of

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I had arranged to talk with local poets Doc Dachtler and Steve Sanfield on 13 October about their joint 'Reunion Reading' at the Off-Center Stage in Grass Valley at 7:30 PM on Thursday 16 October as part of the Nevada County Poetry Series. When I heard that Booktown would be pre-empted for Indigenous Peoples Days programming, I decided to go ahead with the interview anyway. I've submitted a

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On Friday 19 September I recorded an interview with financial journalist and consultant Daniel Altman, author of Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, which has just been reissued in paperback by Picador. The book covers many topics in global economics as they were reflected in events taking place on 15 June 2005. In addition to the topics directly covered in the book, we also discussed the

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On 15 September, I featured the two most popular poets in America today: Coleman Barks and Billy Collins. I had hoped to talk with at least one of them but couldn't get in touch with them in time. I played recordings of them reading their poems instead; this is probably much more worthwhile than listening to me asking them questions.Coleman Barks is the man who rescued the Persian Sufi poet

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On 1 September I talked with biographer Brenda Wineapple, who teaches writing at Columbia University and The New School, about White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, which has just been published by Knopf. There are many collections of Emily Dickinson's writings. If you'd like to get to know more about Higginson, Howard N Meyer's The Magnificent Activist:

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On 18 August I talked with two authors whose books offer complementary views of the interaction of people and the natural world. I first played an interview I recorded a few days before with Alan Weisman, whose best-seller The World Without Us has just been released in paperback by Picador. We also talked a bit about his earlier book Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, which has just been

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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

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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

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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

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On 23 June I talked with the translators of two books of poetry published last year by the University of California Press. I first talked with Peter Green, Dougherty Emeritus Professor Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, about his translation of the Latin poet Catullus. I then played a prerecorded talk with Hiroaki Sato about

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On 9 June I talked with two Nevada County historians about their most recent books. I first talked with Hank Meals about The River: Hiking Trails and History of the South Fork of the Yuba River. He will present the book at the Book Seller in Grass Valley next Saturday 14 June at 1 PM. I then talked with Orval Bronson about Launched into Eternity: Lynchings and Judicial Executions in 19th Century

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On 26 May I talked with poet and novelist Charles Entrekin, who recently moved from Nevada County to the Bay Area, about his new novel Red Mountain: Birmingham, Alabama, 1965 (El Leon Literary Arts). He will read from the novel at the Off-Center Stage of the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley at 4 PM on Sunday 8 June.I then remembered Nevada City novelist Oakley Hall, who died on 12 May. I

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On 12 May I talked with Patrick Symmes, author of The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile, which has just been published in paperback by Vintage Books, and with George Johnson, author of The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (Knopf).To hear this program, click here.

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On 28 April I talked with novelist, memoirist and short story writer Tobias Wolff about his most recent book Our Story Begins: Selected and New Stories (Knopf). Wolff will appear in conversation with Pam Houston at 7:30 PM on Thursday 8 May at the Crest Theater in Sacramento as part of the California Lectures series. The interview was followed by a recording of novelist and short story writer T

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On 14 April I talked with Wen Huang, translator of The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up (Pantheon) by Chinese dissident author Liao Yiwu.I then talked with master acting teacher Darryl Hickman about his book The Unconscious Actor: Out of Control, In Full Command (Small Mountain Press). Hickman will appear at the Book Seller in Grass Valley at 3 PM on Saturday 19 April.

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On 31 March I talked with Gayle Greene, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Scripps College, about her new book Insomniac (University of California Press), an impassioned, often angry account of the current state of insomnia research and treatment by a lifelong sufferer.I then talked with local bookseller and author James Van Eaton about his 'epic fantasy' novel Down the Darkening Road

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On 17 March I planned to feature three books that touched on various aspects of evolution. Unfortunately, the two interviews I was working on misfired and KVMR replaced Booktown with special St Patrick's Day programming. These are the books that I had in mind:Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World, edited by Raphael D Sagarin and Terence Taylor (University of California Press

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On 3 March I talked with novelist, poet and children's writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about her latest novel The Palace of Illusions (Doubleday), a retelling of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata from the point of view of Panchaali (aka Draupadi), the main female character. Divakaruni will appear at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park at 7:30 PM on Tuesday 4 March. On Wednesday 5 March she will

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On 24 February I talked with Lisa See, best-known for her novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House), about her most recent novel Peony in Love (Random House). Snow Flower is this year's Roseville Reads selection and See will appear at the Riley Library in Roseville from 1:30 to 3:00 PM on Saturday 1 March. Peony was recently selected for Teenreads.com's Ultimate Teen Reading List. Parts

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On 18 February I talked with Philip Fradkin, whose books include A River No More and Sagebrush Country, about his new biography Wallace Stegner and the American West (Knopf). The longest chapter in the book discusses the controversies surrounding Stegner's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Angle of Repose (Penguin). Nevada City novelist and playwright Sands Hall, whose play Fair Use deals with

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On 4 February I talked with Geraldine Brooks, best known for her book Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women and her novel March (Penguin), which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, about her latest novel People of the Book (Viking). She will speak at the Crest Theater in Sacramento as part of the California Lectures series at 7:30 PM on Wednesday 6 February.I then talked

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Booktown was pre-empted today for programming honoring Martin Luther King Day. I hope you enjoyed the singing of the Bethel AME Church choir from Marysville.

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On 7 January I talked with two authors about the rediscovery of an almost completely forgotten woman and an almost completely forgotten tree.I first talked with Linda Colley, Shelby M C Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University, about her recent book The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (Pantheon), which the New York Times Book Review listed as one of the ten

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It's the end of the year and time for our annual Booktown readers panel's choice of their favorite books of the past year. The panelists' lists include:John DeaderickAnimals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (Knopf)Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (W W Norton)

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On 10 December I talked with authors who describe two radically different worldviews.I talked first with Bob Altemeyer, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba about his book The Authoritarians, which you can read for free online or order in hard copy for a nominal price. There is a Google Group dedicated to ongoing discussion of the book and its ideas.I then talked with

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On 26 November I talked with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bill Boyarsky, author of Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics (University of California Press). Currently John Jacobs Fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, Boyarsky is also a member of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission and writes a blog for the online journal LA Observed. I then talked with

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On 12 November I played two interviews I had recorded over the weekend. The first was with Jonathan Schell, senior visiting lecturer in international studies at Yale University and best known for his books The Fate of the Earth (Knopf) and The Unconquerable World (Metropolitan/Henry Holt) about his new book The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger, which will be published on 13

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On 29 October Booktown was pre-empted for a KVMR membership drive (it was very successful).

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On 15 October I presented the instigators of four current or upcoming literary events in Nevada County.I first talked with Nevada City resident and United Methodist minister Sharon Delgado about her recent book Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization (AugsburgFortress). She will host a book release gathering at the Book Seller in Grass Valley at 3 PM on

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On 8 October I talked with Nevada County actor and playwright Gary Wright about his play Evermore, which covers the last eight years of Edgar Allan Poe's life. The Foothill Theatre Company's world premiere production is playing at the Nevada Theatre in Nevada City from now until 27 October.I didn't at first expect that I would have room to broadcast this interview on Booktown, but another

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On 1 October I talked with Chinese filmmaker and writer Guo Xiaolu about A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, the first novel she has written in English, which was recently published by Nan A Telese/Doubleday. I couldn't get through to her on the studio line and wound up talking to her over my computer. The connection was so-so and my questions were worse. She's a very talented writer

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On 17 September I talked with journalist Naomi Klein about her just-published book The Shock Doctrine (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt), which explains how the followers of economist Milton Friedman manipulated natural and political crises and employed shock techniques to try to force extreme free-market capitalism on the world (in Chile, Argentina, Britain, the United States, Poland, Russia,

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On 3 September I talked with Booktown's Brooklyn correspondent Erin Rogers. We first talked about two New York City writers who died in the last few months. Poet, short story writer and political activist Grace Paley's death received notice all over the county. Poet and performance artist Sekou Sundiata was less well-known outside New York, but Erin believed he may have had a much stronger

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On 20 August I talked with Thomas Blackburn, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, about his recent book An Artist's Portfolio: The California Sketches of Henry B Brown, 1851-52 (Malki-Ballena Press), which contains a number of drawings of scenes in Nevada County and more finished portrayals of Native American life in other parts of Northern

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On 6 August I intended to talk with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author (with her husband James D Houston) of Farewell to Manzanar and keynote speaker at this year's SacramentoState Summer Writers' Conference. There was a problem with the telephone connection so I read several chapters from her novel The Legend of Fire Horse Woman instead.In honor of the newly announced United States Poet Laureate

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Monday 23 July 2007On 23 July I talked with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about the book he is writing about the Great Books movement. This is the third of a series of conversations in which we follow the progress of the book (The first was on 2 October 2006, the second on 5 March 2007). We expect to talk twice more before the book is published.In honor of Raymond Chandler's birthday, I then

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Monday 9 July 2007 I was out of town on 9 July and didn't carry out  my intention to produce a program online. KVMR broadcast other pre-recorded material instead.

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Monday 25 June 2007On 25 June I talked with David R Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington about his recent book Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (University of California Press).I then talked with Nevada County Library Literacy Coordinator Alan Archer. Anyone who would like to participate in the literacy program either as a student or a tutor can call

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Monday 11 June 2007On 11 June I talked with Jean Pfaelzer, Professor of English, East Asian Studies and American Studies at the University of Delaware about her book Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans  (Random House).I then talked with the distinguished American writer James D Houston about his most recent novel Bird of Another Heaven (Knopf).To hear this program, click here.

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28 May 2007On 28 May I talked with Alexander Cockburn, editor with Jeffrey St Clair of the online political newsletter CounterPunch and editor with JSC of End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate (CounterPunch/AK Press)I then talked with Michael Yates, associate editor of the Monthly Review and author of Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: an Economist's Travelogue (Monthly Review Press). Michael has

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Monday 14 May 2007Booktown will be pre-empted for a KVMR membership drive today. This pre-recorded program is available online only.On this program I talk with mystery-writer couple Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, who will be appearing at the Madelyn Helling Library in Nevada City at 7:30 PM on Friday 18 May. She is best known for her long-running Sharon McCone mystery series, he for his similar

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Monday 30 April 2007On 30 April I talked with philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein. We discussed her non-fiction books Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Schocken) and Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Goedel (WW Norton) and her novels The Mind-Body Problem and Mazel (both Penguin) and Properties of Light (Houghton Mifflin). I then talked with her

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Monday 16 April 2007On 16 April I talked with short story master Deborah Eisenberg about her four volumes of stories. She will be featuring the latest of these, Twilight of the Superheroes (Picador), at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on 28-29 April.I then talked with California Poet Laureate Al Young, who is touring the state from north to south as part of National Poetry Month and will

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Monday 2 April 2007On 2 April I talked with Jerry Mander, Founder and Co-Director of the International Forum on Globalization, about his most recent book Paradigm Wars: Indigenous People's Resistence to Globablization (Sierra Club Books). Jerry will appear at St Joseph's Hall in Grass Valley at 7:30 PM on Saturday 21 April in an event co-sponsored by the Sierra Nevada Deep Ecology Institute,

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Monday 19 March 2007On 19 March I talked with two Indiana natives recently published by the University of California Press: first with well-known poet, editor, translator and Professor Emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University Clayton Eshleman about his bilingual edition of The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, the result of nearly five decades of work; then with anthropologist Liza

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Monday 5 February 2007Booktown has been pre-empted for a KVMR membership drive and will not air today.I will be out of town until 15 March. I have pre-recorded two programs which will air on Monday 19 February and Monday 5 March. They are available online if you can't wait that long.Monday 19 February 2007On this program I talk with Barry Pateman, one of the editors of UC Press's edition of the

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Monday 22 January 2007On 22 January I talked with Velina Hasu Houston, about her work, with special emphasis on her best know play Tea, which the Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS) is presenting at the Nevada Theatre in Nevada City until 10 February.I then talked with Booktown's Brooklyn correspondent Erin Rogers about a number of books and authors, including Balthasar Gracian's The Art

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Monday 8 January 2007On 8 January I talked with Karen A Cerulo, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, about her book Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst (University of Chicago Press) and with Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, about his book The

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