Shows
ThirtyFour-50's tracksLaura Bell on ThirtyFour 50Laura Bell is the author of the acclaimed Claiming Ground: A Memoir published by the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The memoir tells about her adventures in rural Wyoming. As noted in Publishers Weekly “Bell's extraordinary ability to impart a true sense of place on each page reveals a stark and stunning landscape populated with a playbill of peculiar personalities attracted to a life of solitude and hard physical work, and her life within this remarkable world.” Bell’s work has been published in several collections, and from the Wyoming Arts Council she has received two litera...
2014-05-1425 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksNura Maznavi on ThirtyFour 50Nura Maznavi, along with Ayesha Mattu, gathered stories for their book, 'Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women,' which was released on Valentine's Day to critical and popular acclaim. I asked her if the response was a surprise. "We've been amazed and thrilled," said Nura, "by the overwhelmingly positive reception to the book. We knew that the stories would touch our readers, but I don't think we expected the response that it's received across the board -- from Muslim and non-Muslim readers and the media."
2014-05-1425 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksMichael Bronski on ThirtyFour-50Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.A professor at Dartmouth College, he currently teaches in the women's and gender studies department, and also teaches courses in LGBT history and Jewish studies at both Dartmouth and Harvard University.A Queer History of the United States won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Stonewall Book Award in 2012. He also previously won two Lambda Literary Awards as an editor of anthologies, in 1997 for Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex and in 2004...
2014-04-1827 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksJung Chang on ThirtyFour-50Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British University. Jung Chang lives in London and teaches the...
2014-04-1829 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksJoshua Safran on ThirtyFour-50JOSHUA SAFRAN is an author, attorney, speaker, and occasional rabbi, and was featured in the award-winning documentary CRIME AFTER CRIME, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and had its television debut as part of The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)’s Documentary Film Club. He is a nationally recognized champion for women’s rights and a zealous advocate for survivors of domestic violence and the wrongfully imprisoned. For his work, he has received national media coverage and numerous awards.
2014-04-1826 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksJames W. Hall on ThirtyFour-50James W. Hall is the author of 18 novels. Thirteen of which, like his most recent Going Dark, (December, 2013), feature a hardcore loner named Thorn, who makes a meager living tying bonefish flies. Thorn, and his private eye pal, Sugarman, have teamed up in a dozen books to thwart animal smugglers, cruise ship hijackers, rogue medical experimenters, and other assorted villains. For a man who simply wants to be left alone to contemplate the island light and sweet sea breezes of Key Largo, Thorn has been drawn into a long string of adventures to right wrongs and avenge the deaths...
2014-04-1824 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksBill Ayers on ThirtyFour-50William Charles "Bill" Ayers retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a former Chicago community organizer and voice for urban educational reform A former leader in the counterculture movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Known for his 1960s radical activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly...
2014-04-1827 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksRick Kilby on ThirtyFour-50Rick KilbyAlthough historians have long debunked the myth of the conquistador’s search for the Fountain of Youth,Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de Leon and Florida's Magical Waters (University Press of Florida; $14.95) shows how myth became inextricably tied to the image of the Sunshine State. Featuring reproductions of eye-catching postcards, vintage advertisements, vibrant photos, and other “Ponceabilia,” the book reveals how Florida itself has been transformed into a veritable Fountain of Youth. Kilby, president of Kilby Creative, is a graphic designer.
2014-04-1827 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksElizabeth Winder on ThirtyFour-50Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar.In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle’s annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankee game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath’s words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and...
2014-04-1825 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksJeff Klinkenberg on ThirtyFour-50Jeff Klinkenberg, who writes about Florida culture for the St. Petersburg Times, is the author of the book collection of essays, Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators, published by University Press of Florida. Previous anthologies, Seasons of Real Florida and Dispatches from the Land of Flowers, have been best sellers.Born in 1949, Klinkenberg grew up in Miami and began exploring the Florida Keys and the Everglades as a small boy. He started working at The Miami News when he was 16 and became a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. He’s in the UF Journalism College’s Ha...
2014-04-1828 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksLynn Waddell on ThirtyFour-50Lynn Waddell has had a diverse writing career. Based in the Tampa Bay area, she’s covered major Florida news stories for national publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Beast.com and NPR.com. She has appeared on MSNBC and the Oxygen Network’s true crime series “Snapped,” and been a guest on radio talk shows throughout the United States.
Her first book Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles is an offbeat tome that takes readers inside some of the state’s most ecl...
2014-04-1824 min
ThirtyFour-50's tracksBill DeYoung on ThirtyFour-50Noted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses and signs his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN
2014-04-1826 min