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The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, November 06, 2003
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    Anthrax Isn’t Over

    Anthrax isn’t in the news much anymore, but that doesn’t mean the threat is over. Leonard Cole disentangles the confusing post-9/11 anthrax scare. Then Welsh poet Owen Sheers and editor Thomas Keith commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dylan Thomas’s death with a discussion about his life, his work, and his legacy. Nell Freudenberger shares her debut short story collection, Lucky Girls. And choreographer Twyla Tharp tells us how to be creative.

Leonard Cole

In his new book, The Anthrax Letters, Leonard Cole takes us on a tour of the national response to the anthrax scare, and explains why some postal facilities remain contaminated even after multi-million dollar cleanups.

  • Music: Out Break Soundtrack composer James Newton Howard
    Sudden Fear Soundtrack composer George R. Nelson
  • Owen Sheers and Thomas Keith

    Fifty years ago this November, Dylan Thomas died at the age of 39 at New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital. Here to discuss Thomas’s enduring legacy is Owen Sheers, a Welsh poet, and Thomas Keith, an editor from New Directions Publishing, which is sponsoring a tribute to Dylan Thomas here in New York.

  • Music: Clips of Dylan Thomas reading “Death Shall Have No Dominion” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
    Crown Imperial composed by Sir William Walton performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Knightsbridge-March from London Suite composed by Eric Coates performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Nell Freudenberger

    The five stories in Nell Freudenberger’s debut short story collection, Lucky Girls, are set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent. The title story was published in the 2001 fiction issue of New Yorker.

  • Events: Nell Freudenberger will be reading at Barbes Bar at 376 Ninth Street in Park Slope 11/13 at 7pm
  • Music: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love Soundtrack composer Terry Dame
  • Twyla Tharp

    Even if you don’t consider yourself to be creative, leading choreographer Twyla Tharp argues that you can learn how to be. Her new book is The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life.

  • Events: Twyla Tharp will be speaking with Leonard Lopate at the 92nd St Y on Sunday, November 23rd at 7:30 pm
  • Music: Hillary Hahn plays Bach
    “Partita No. 2 minor”
    Mozart: Complete Piano Duets-Guher and Suher
    “Sonata in F Major”
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