A List of
Recent Interviews

2002

July 17: Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Years of Rice and Salt (Bantam)

May 31: Mary Witkowski, Head of the Historical Section, Bridgeport Public Library and co-author of Bridgeport on the Sound (Arcadia Press)

May 24: Wendy Lesser, Editor of The Threepenny Review and author of Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering (Houghton-Mifflin)

April 26: Maggie Jackson, author of What's Happening to Home: Balancing Work, Life, and Refuge in the Information Age (Sorin Books)

April 12: Jan Willis, author of Dreaming Me: From Baptist to Buddhist, One Woman's Spiritual Journey

March 22: Eminent Harvard naturalist E.O. Wilson, author, most recently, of The Future of Life.

February 22: Johann Christoph Arnold, a pastor and counsellor in the Bruderhoff community and author of Be Not Afraid: Overcoming The Fear Of Death

February 15: Interview with Carolyn Wyman, author of Jello: A Biography.

February 1: Jim Motavalli, WPKN programmer and Editor of E: The Environmental Magazine, and author of Breaking Gridlock : Moving Toward Transportation That Works

January 25: Interview with Jane Hammerslough, author of Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions

2001

May 18: Alice McIntyre author of Inner-City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community, published by New York University Press.

May 4: Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton discussed his book The Consolations of Philosophy.

April 6 : At 10:30, an interview with Janice Hume, author of Obituaries in American Culture published by the University Press of Mississippi.
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March 30 : At 10:30, an interview with Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription and a discussion of P. Bush, carbon dioxide and global warming.

March 16 : At 11:30, an interview with Peter Ackerman, co-author of the book A Force More Powerful. A Century of Non-Violent Conflict, published by St. Martin’s Press, and co-producer of the companion PBS series. www.aforcemorepowerful.org.

March 2 : At 10:30, an interview with Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation magazine. A collection of her columns from The Nation have been collected in the book Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture, published by Modern Library .
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February 16 : At 11:30, an interview with Don George, the editor of salon.com's travel section. A collection of these columns, by various writers, have been collected in salon.com's Wanderlust : Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance, published by Villard books.
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At 12:00, an in-studio interview with James Bernard Frost, who criss-crossed the country looking for good vegetarian food and organic markets. His reviews can be found in The Artichoke Trail: A Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants, Organic Food Stores & Farmers' Markets in the United States, published by Hunter Publishing.

January 5: At 11:30, an in-studio discussion with Tim Parrish, Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University and author of a new collection of short stories, Red Stick Men, published by the University Press of Mississippi. Tim was recently chosen as a "Very Interesting Person" by the Booksense website of independent bookstores.

December 29 : A discussion with M.J. Rose, a novelist and writer for wired.com. Her novel Lip Service was one of first e-books published on the internet. Her latest novel In Fidelity is currently available on-line and will be published in a traditional book format in January 2001.

September 22: Short-story writer Amy Bloom discussed her most recent book A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories

September 15: An interview with Alison Cunningham, Executive Director of Columbus House, a homeless shelter in New Haven. They have just published As I Sat on the Green: Living Without a Home in New Haven. This book is a collection of poetry, prose and interviews with people who are, or have been, homeless in greater New Haven.

September 1: Sandy Taylor, Publisher and Co-founder of Curbstone Press discussed their 25th anniversary. Curbstone is a non-profit publishing house dedicated to imaginative literature that reflects a commitment to social change.

Some Favorite
Literary Links

I've collected dozens of links to book and literature links over the last few years. Here are a few:

Bookcrossing.com is a site where you can register favorite books you wish to give away and "release" them to the wild, where they might find a new friend a trip around the world.

New Pages has the most extensive list of links to independent publishing houses and journals that I've found on the web. Excellent site.

Arts and Letters Daily has links to almost every published book review (and other article about the arts), plus lots of other arts reviews, plus links to every magazine, website, and newspaper of note.

The E-book Library at the University of Virginia has established a collection of 1200 classic e-books that are available for free download.

More links to free e-books can be found in a recent newcity.com column that was published in early January

LitLine Home: A website for the independent literature community and lots of links.

Coach House Books: An independent Canadian press with a long history of publishing experimental fiction. Many of their titles are available online and take full use of the multimedia capabilities of the internet

C. Morton is a librarian at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. In her spare time, she works on her web pages, and she has a passion for books. Lots of links.