Nicaraguan poet, Gioconda Belli grew up with all of the comforts of an upper-class home, but in her early twenties she rejected her bourgeois upbringing to join the Sandanistas. She shares her memoir with us. Noted linguist Allan Metcalf explains how certain words become popular. His book is Predicting New Words...The Secrets of Their Success. Finally, writer David Henry Hwong and actress Lea Salonga discuss the new Broadway show, Flower Drum Song.
Gioconda Belli
Nicaraguan poet, Gioconda Belli grew up with all of the comforts of an upper-class home, but in her early twenties she rejected her bourgeois upbringing to join the Sandanistas. She shares her memoir, The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War.
Allan Metcalf
Allan Metcalf, noted linguist and executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, explains how certain words become popular, Predicting New Words…The Secrets of Their Success.
David Henry Hwong & Lea Salonga
Writer David Henry Hwong and actress Lea Salonga discuss the new Broadway show, Flower Drum Song.
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