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NPR’s The Salt recently featured an interview with Seth Holmes, author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, about the unfair and unsafe conditions faced by migrant workers who provide Americans with fresh fruit and vegetables. During his research in the field, Holmes traveled with migrant farmworkers back and forth from Oaxaca, Mexico and up the West [more...]  On NPR’s Tell Me More last week, Tomás Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, spoke to Lynn Neary about whether recent drug-related violence in Mexico is changing immigration patterns, possibly widening the gap between Mexican immigrants in the US and their family members across the border. Jiménez finds [more...] “We need to begin at the beginning. We need to begin at our beginnings”, writes Adam Frank in a recent post on the NPR.org blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture, to which he is a regular contributor. Frank, an astrophysicist and author of The Constant Fire, argues for a new perspective on the relationship between [more...] “In this Autobiography I shall keep in mind that I am speaking from the grave….I speak from the grave rather than with my living tongue, for good reason: I can speak thence freely”, Mark Twain writes in the preface to his autobiography. He spent his last years writing his life and times, but left instructions that [more...] Just a reminder that the Bay Bridge will be closed starting tonight, September 3, 2009 and reopening on September 7, 2009 at 5:00am. View a simulation of the amazing architectural and engineering feat they are going to attempt this weekend. Kasra Naji, the author of Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader, was a guest on NPR’s Morning Edition this week. In a conversation with Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep, Naji recalled his experience as a university student watching the 1979 Islamic Revolution unfold in Iran. By Ariel Rosen My year abroad in the City of Lights and the violent aftermath of the election in Iran. At first glance, these two events may not seem to have much in common. But listening to the June 30th podcast from NPR: Talk of the Nation, Iranian Americans watch Tehran from Afar, you’ll see how [more...] In the latest installment of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, author Gayle Greene offers insight into the condition, while elaborating on her book, Insomniac (UC Press, March 2008), in this audio interview. Additionally, you can read more about Gayle and the disorder, including tips and shared experiences on her website, Sleep Starved. Kasra Naji, author of Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader (UC Press, February 2008), was recently interviewed by Fresh Air at WHYY/NPR. In the interview, Naji talks about the controversial leader and his rise to power. You can find his interview on the NPR website. On today’s Morning Edition, The Kitchen Sisters profiled Niloufer Ichaporia King, the author of My Bombay Kitchen, in their feature on Parsi cooking. The story reveals King’s deliciously artistic world, which, like her recipes, is a feast of fresh ingredients and delightful flavors, enriched by her Parsi history and the joy of inspiring the kitchens [more...] |
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