The Leonard Lopate Show: Self-Reliance

The Leonard Lopate Show

Self-Reliance

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Staceyann Chin

Guest host Kenji Jasper fills in for Leonard today. Steve Salerno joins him to explain why he thinks the self-help industry is as harmful as it is lucrative. Then, poet and activist Staceyann Chin describes her new one-woman show, Border/Clash. Grammy-winning, veteran songwriter Gordon Chambers tells us about recording his own debut album. Finally, David Enders describes the challenges of creating an English-language newspaper in Baghdad during the war, in a new book: Baghdad Bulletin.

Self-Help? Or Helplessness?

Steve Salerno argues that the big-business self-help industry is doing more harm than good in SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless.

Music: Soundtrack of Mumford (Hollywood Records) Track 8: “Meeting Sofie”
Track 7: “Hiking”
Track 16: “Transference”

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A Litany of Desires

New Yorker, Jamaican National, out poet, and political activist Staceyann Chin co-wrote and performed in Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. She stops by to tell us about her latest show: Border/Clash.

» Staceyann Chin's website
» More information on Border/Clash ...

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Introducing…Gordon Chambers

Gordon Chambers has written songs for some of the biggest names in R&B: Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, and Angie Stone. He even won a Grammy for writing “I Apologize” for Anita Baker. Now, he’s writing for himself. His debut album is: Introducing…Gordon Chambers.

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Baghdad Bulletin

Independent journalist David Enders started the only English-language newspaper completely written, printed, and distributed in Iraq during the war. He describes the challenges he faced in a new book, Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation.

Music: “Wax Off” by Kodo
“Knuddelmaus” by Ulrich Schnauss

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