Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Reducing Home Foreclosures

10 a.m. (ET)

Wednesday, President Obama announces administration plans to stem the nation's rising tide of foreclosures. Differing views on what may or may not work, and what's in the taxpayers' interest.

Yiyun Li : "The Vagrants" (Random House)

11 a.m. (ET)

An award-winning, Beijing-born writer presents her debut novel. It is based on a true story of the public execution in nineteen-seventy-nine of a young woman who served in the Red Guard before denouncing communism.

The Diane Rehm Show is produced by member-supported WAMU 88.5 in Washington DC.