Arts & Culture

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-08-12/peter-berger-praise-doubt-harperone

Peter Berger: "In Praise of Doubt" (HarperOne)

August 12, 2009

Civil discourse today is in danger of being shouted down by talking heads and single-minded bloggers. How doubt can help people on opposite sides of an issue to disagree more agreeably.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-08-11/valerie-martin-and-nan-talese

Valerie Martin and Nan Talese

August 11, 2009

Award-winning author Valerie Martin presents her latest novel -- "The Confessions of Edward Day" -- and discusses writing and publishing with her long-time editor, Nan Talese.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-08-05/conversation-senator-barbara-boxer

A Conversation with Senator Barbara Boxer

August 5, 2009

Senator Barbara Boxer on health care, financial reform, and the outlook for President Obama's agenda for change.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-08-04/melanie-gideon-slippery-year-knopf

Melanie Gideon: "The Slippery Year" (Knopf)

August 4, 2009

A happily married woman offers a light-hearted but honest take on growing older, getting wiser, and what it takes to rediscover a passion for life.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-08-02/colum-mccann-let-great-world-spin-random-house-rebroadcast

Colum McCann: "Let the Great World Spin" (Random House) (Rebroadcast)

August 2, 2009

On a summer day in 1974 New Yorkers looked up to see an acrobat walking on a wire between the tops of the twin towers. In a new novel, Colum McCann imagines what was going on in the lives of the people on the streets below.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-07-28/margaret-macmillan-dangerous-games-modern-library-chronicles

Margaret MacMillan: "Dangerous Games" (Modern Library Chronicles)

July 28, 2009

Dictators as well as legitimate political leaders often manipulate history to justify their actions. Why knowledge of the past is critical to democracy and how history has been used and abused.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-07-27/elizabeth-hawes-camus-romance-grove-press

Elizabeth Hawes: "Camus, A Romance" (Grove Press)

July 27, 2009

A writer describes her forty-year affair of the heart and mind with the Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-07-14/fred-kaplan-1959-year-everything-changed-wiley

Fred Kaplan: "1959: The Year Everything Changed" (Wiley)

July 14, 2009

In nineteen-fifty-nine, America suffered its first casualties in the Vietnam War, the microchip was invented, and Motown was about to change American music. How the events of that year laid the foundation for free-love, political...

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-07-06/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-thing-around-your-neck-knopf

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The Thing Around Your Neck" (Knopf)

July 6, 2009

A Nigerian-born author explores the ties that bind men and women, children and parents, Africa and the U.S. She presents her latest collection of stories set in Nigeria and America

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-06-29/colum-mccann-let-great-world-spin-random-house

Colum McCann: "Let the Great World Spin" (Random House)

June 29, 2009

On a summer day in 1974 New Yorkers looked up to see an acrobat walking on a wire between the tops of the twin towers. In a new novel, Colum McCann imagines what was going on in the lives of the people on the streets below.

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