Strategies of dealing with homelessness when housing is expensive and many Americans live marginally.
New England Authors with Kameel Nasr
New Englad Authors- Tom Wolf
Coming from a poor Jewish family in Russia, Lea Luboshutz was a prodigy who began touring internationally before the Russian Revolution. Tom Wolf describes what it was like growing up in a musical house where the famous used to visit. His uncle was the celebrated opera conductor Boris Goldovsky.
New England Authors – Graham-Farmelo
Farmelo has written a biography of the notable physicist Paul Dirac and another book on why the UK halted research into the atom bomb during WWII. He turns his attention to the major theories of the universe and, in everyday language, tells us where current research is at and where it's going. Math and physics are becoming more intertwined. He presents his ideas in a vivid and optimistic tone.
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Multiplicity is a diverse collection of music videos from all genres. Rock, pop, hip hop, EDM, country and more, with each episode based on a pre-defined genre. Viewers can discover new artists and find some of the most popular new music videos on the modern musical landscape. There is no host or dialogue, it is just music videos front to back.
New England Authors – Elisabeth Elo-Siberian Mystery
Following her acclaimed debut novel North of Boston, Elo, who holds a PhD in American Literature from Brandeis, introduces us to Siberia, talking about a land we hardly know. In her new novel, a Russian-American doctor goes to Siberia to discover what happened to her grandmother whom everyone had thought died in Stalin's gulags but actually had escaped and survived. The CIA recruits her to find one of their informers, but she uncovers much more, a vibrant modern city as well as a bitter past.
New England Authors – Andrew Ross
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are built by Palestinian workers using Palestinian stone. By building, Palestinians are destroying their future
New England Authors – Armando Correa
The Ship MS St. Louis, with almost 1000 Jewish refugees was turned away from Cuba, the USA, and Canada, only to have to return to Europe where many of the passengers were killed. Correa, a Cuban-American, traces one little girl on that ship that settled in a French village. Nazis descended on the village and put women and children in a church and men in the plaza. They shot all the men and burned the church. Correa's beautiful writings are a call for tolerance and humanity.
New England Authors – Poet Denise Bergman
Denise Bergman has written several book-length poems. One explores Annie Sullivan, Hellen Keller´s teacher. Another is about the Statue of Liberty sitting in 360 crates after it was send from France, waiting for a pedestal to be built. The statue was for the Civil War and the liberation of slaves. Her latest book looks at a sexual assault and its aftermath when the author was in her twenties. A man climbed into her room at night with a knife and flashlight. Her description and use of language...
New England Authors – Dan Lynn Watt – Growing up a Communist in America
Few people know what it's like to have your house bugged by the FBI, or to have to run away to Mexico, or to see your friends arrested, but that's what happened in the 1940s and 1950s. Watt grew up in such a household, supporting labor unions and opposing Jim Crow, but also believing that the Soviet Union was a worker's paradise. Watt is candid both about the naivete' of his parents as well as the idealism. He reads stories from his memoir and tells the story of a biology teacher who expressed...
New England Authors – Christina Thompson
Who are the Polynesians? Where did they come from? How did they get from island to island and back again? What do they have to do with us? Christina Thompson's book Sea People examines these questions in a lively interview. The exploration of the Pacific by Europeans took hundreds of years because they didn't know where they were in the enormous ocean and followed the trade winds which took them on set routes. The Polynesians knew the sea intimately. Now they are facing their biggest challenge...
New England Authors – Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk, who heads the MFA Department at UMass Boston, has written and edited several books, including books called ''Notable'' by the New York Times and have been translated into several languages. His family came from Ukraine and were named ''righteous among gentiles'' for saving Jews during WWII. His novels take place both in Ukraine and the US. He also edited a book about the late Father Daniel Berrigan. In the interview he discusses several writers and the voice we use, both when...
New England Authors – Charlene DAvanzo – climate change and New England
What is happening to New England lobstering and fishing as the waters warm? Marine Biologist and educator Charlene D'Avanzo has written a fiction series dealing with different aspects of environmental damage. Her last book is mostly about the lobster business off the Maine coast where people's livelihoods are threatened by climate change. D'Avanzo, who taught at Hampshire College for more than 35 years, wants to use fiction to make climate change real.
New England Authors – Gabriel Valjan
Writer of stories and novels, Valjan has an exciting series about Italy and its link to New England. Valjan goes into the details of the years of upheaval in the 1970s. His books talk about the mafia and how they have morphed into legitimate business. His protagonist is a vibrant woman who takes on the challenges and dangers of organized crime.
New England Authors – Andrea Chiovenda
Chiovenda first went to Afghanistan after the US invasion as a reporter but was so struck by the life that he returned to do field research, especially about masculinity in their culture. He learned Pashto and interviewed people both in rural and urban areas. He paints a picture of a hard but fascinating life where men need to prove themselves in order to be respected. He later studied Afghan refugees in Greece, and he talks about the Western world's responsibility for creating the refugee...
New England Authors – Aaron Tillman
This episode has the Author, a professor at Newbury College, reading two gripping stories from his short story collection titled, ''Every Bone in My Brain.'' Aaron Tillman also talks about the meaning of Jewish-American fiction as well as the themes he uses in his stories. Tillman is a strong reader who keeps the listener's attention.
New England Authors – Poet Susan Eisenberg Women in Construction
After her 1990s book WE'LL CALL YOU IF WE NEED YOU, which interviewed women in the construction trades, women still make up 3% of that workforce. Poet Eisenberg, who became an electrician, wrote about the experiences of women. She reads from her work, including poems on the Detroit riots of the 1960s, Gaza, and her childhood.
New England Authors – Dave Zeltserman
Author of more than 20 popular books under his name and a pen name, Dave Zeltserman describes the process of writing horror, private detective, and serial killer novels. His books are very readable. He talks about the process of his books becoming films. His latest book features a fellow that belongs to a cannibal clan hidden in NH, but he meets a girl, falls in love, and wants to become part of our world. He has also written many stories for magazines.
New England Authors – Thomas Forest Kelly – History of Music
Music notation is our only look into how music sounded centuries ago. How did this system of notation develop? Who developed the do-re-mi scale? Harvard Professor Thomas Forest Kelly, who has written many books about the history of music, takes us on a fascinating multi-century tour of our musical past. He also explores where music is at are today. Will classical music and opera continue into the future?
New England Authors – Scott Podolsky
Soon after the discovery of antibiotics, which saved millions since WWII, scientists were urging regulation to avoid deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This is a story of drug company service as well as drug company profit, of medical and political leaders beginning in the 1950s urging or denying government control, of doctors who are both reluctant to prescribe as much as they are reluctant not to prescribe. Dr. Scott Podolsky of the Harvard Medical School tells the wonderful story of...
New England Authors – Shirley Riga – Strategies for Dealing–
Shirley Riga, a Certified Psychosynthesis Counselor and a sound healer, recounts her 32 years looking after her chronically ill daughter Lisa. Diagnosed with a serious liver problem as an infant, Lisa was in and out of hospital with multiple surgeries and treatments, which contributed to extreme mental stress for both mother and daughter. In this powerful episode, Riga helps others who are living in stress.
New England Authors – Edwin Hill
In this debut psychological mystery, librarian Hester Thursby is finds a person missing from New Hampshire since he and a friend ran away when they were fourteen. As the story unfolds, we discover a old crimes. The missing person, Sam, has been living in different cities under different names. Strong character-driven novel. Lively interview.
New England Authors – Lee MacIntyre
Part of the MIT Essential Knowledge Series, McIntyre's book is a study both in history and today's brutal discourse. Fake news has been around forever, so is today's proliferation of lies any different? He finds that real journalism began around the late 1800s but is now under a new threat. He is interested in the way people avoid data to deny science. An important show for today.
New England Authors – Dr Vikram Patel – Mental Health
What are the signs that someone is suffering from mental illness, and what should we do? Originally for areas in the world where mental health care is rare, Dr. Patel argues that all of us can listen to others and look for signs of anxiety and depression. He discusses the grave crisis of substance abuse in the U.S. and what citizens can do. He lists the questions we should ask to ascertain if someone needs help. His book and his talk are amazingly down to earth and simple.
New England Authors – Autism Final HD
How do people view those who might shout in public or grab hair? Are we doing enough to educate children with special needs? What's it like to have an autistic child in your family? Are children with autism stupid? What happens when they grow up? This is a very personal and loving account of living with this disorder as writer John Summers and his daughter Niusha talk about Niusha's brother.