Posts Tagged ‘Cultural’
Dina Hampton
April 17 . 2013
In Little Red, based on extensive original interviews and archival research, Dina Hampton tells the compelling, interwoven life stories of three schoolmates.
Jim Steinmeyer
April 10 . 2013
Acclaimed historian, Jim Steinmeyer sleuths out literature’s most famous vampire, uncovering the source material – from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman – behind Bram Stoker’s bloody creation in Who Was Dracula?.
Ronald K.L. Collins
April 3 . 2013
Ronald Collins and David Skover’s Mania tells the mad, manic, drug and sex fueled story of writers and artists who shaped the cultural revolution.
Brian McLaren
September 13 . 2012
Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious traditions without watering down your own? Brian McLaren proposes a new faith alternative in Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the Road?
Harvey Levenstein
August 8 . 2012
Alan Uke, Rebecca Jane Weinstein
July 30 . 2012
In Buying America Back Alan Uke outlines his plan to turn back the tide with a grass-roots movement to promote American industry by helping American consumers have a better understanding of where their goods come from. Then, Rebecca Jane Weinstein talks about the misconceptions of size and relationships in Fat Sex.
Buddy Guy
July 27 . 2012
Here, for the first time, is Buddy Guy‘s story in his own unique voice, told as only he can tell it-with deep personal insight and unforgettable, candid portraits of all the key players of the first generation of electric blues artists, whose music changed the world forever in When I Left Home.
Maggie Nelson
July 26 . 2012
Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty looks at representations of violence in art by poets, playwrights and novelists with an eye to the question of whether or not focusing on depictions of cruelty actually makes us cruel.
Margaret Downey, Helen Knode
July 25 . 2012
Margaret Downey, the founder and president of The Freethought Society discusses bigotry against the non-theist community and later Helen Knode talks about her new mystery, Wildcat Play.
Chris Hedges
June 22 . 2012
Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels.
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