Hope for the Climate: Michael Mann, OUR FRAGILE MOMENT
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14 Dec 2023
Steve Babson, THE FORGOTTEN POPULISTS & Lesléa Newman, ALWAYS MATT: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard
Champions of Democracy: The Populist Movement of the 1890s
Join us as we explore the transformative impact of the Populist movement during the 1890s.
In this episode, we delve into the story of hard-pressed farmers and workers who sparked a movement that reshaped the nation's political landscape. In his book The Forgotten Populists (https://www.forgottenpopulists.com):When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy, author Steve Babson reveals the historical roots of progressive change and the relevance of this movement to contemporary struggles against corporate profiteering and right-wing authoritarians.
About The Author
Steve Babson is a labor educator and union activist. He’s published seven books, including Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town; Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry; and The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights in Detroit.
The Enduring Legacy of Matthew Shepard
Heather Has Two Mommies author Lesléa Newman (https://lesleanewman.com) reflects on the 25th anniversary of Matt Shepard's murder as a pivotal moment for LGBTQ rights. Despite significant progress over the past quarter century, she notes the frightening backlash from rightwing hate groups threatening these gains.
Newman commemorates Shepard's legacy in her new book, Always Matt, emphasizing his aspiration to, as he said, “create a better, kinder, and more peaceful world for everyone.”
In this episode, we discover who Matthew Shepard was as a person, not just a victim, and why advocating for LGBTQ rights remains so important for all of us.
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9 Dec 2023
Simon Worrall & Heather Dune-Macadam, STARCROSSED. Also, Margaret Renkl, THE COMFORT OF CROWS
We talk with Simon Worrall and Heather Dune-Macadam about the fascinating and tragic story of a young Jewish artist in Nazi-occupied Paris. Their book is STAR CROSSED: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s Paris.
Then, New York Times columnist and author Margaret Renkl tells us about her acclaimed new book THE COMFORT OF CROWS: A Backyard Year.
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Paris, 1940
In Nazi-occupied Paris, pursuing art, culture, and jazz becomes an act of defiance for patriotic Parisians. Forbidden love blossoms between Annette Zelman, a spirited Jewish student at the Academy of Beaux-Arts, and the poet Jean Jausion. But escalating restrictions on the Jewish community lead the young lovers down divergent and tragic paths.
Literary couple Heather Dune-Macadam and Simon Worrall used a treasure-trove of personal letters to uncover the story behind Starcrossed. Beyond the lovers at the heart of the tale, they paint a fascinating portrait of wartime Paris and its lively scene of intellectual resistance to Nazi rule.
About the Authors
Heather Dune is the author of the award-winning book, 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz. Simon Worrall is the author of several books, including The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery.
Margaret Renkl’s Backyard Year
The leaves are falling in ever greater numbers as Fall marches into Winter. And as they do, the question arises, what to do with them?
My guest, New York Times columnist and author (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/books/booksupdate/margaret-renkl-comfort-crows.html?searchResultPosition=2) Margaret Renkl has a simple solution: do nothing. A messy yard is great habitat for our endangered wildlife.
Her new book The Comfort of Crows is a a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. Beautifully written, it reminds us to pay attention to the fragile and wondrous life around us. By protecting it, we enrich our own lives immeasurably.
About the Author
Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly.
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