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Working for Change
Barbara Ehrenreich, essayist and author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, gives us an update on the state of America’s working poor. Then, Anita Desai explores past and present cultural identities through the lens of a historian’s visit to a Mexican mining town in her latest novel, The Zigzag Way. Thai Jones reconstructs the compelling, and sometimes disturbing, development of his family’s political convictions in A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience. And poets Paul Muldoon and Molly Peacock offer some insight on how to read a poem in this week’s Please Explain feature.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the state of the working poor today.
Music: Brother’s Keeper Soundtrack (Angel) Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
Track 16: "Cows on the Hill"
Track 9: "Fiddler’s Elbow"
Anita Desai
Anita Desai shares her new novel, The Zigzag Way.
Events: Anita Desai will be reading and signing books
Friday, December 3 at 7pm
Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Square
Music: Mexico (Seeds Records)
Track 12: "Las Perlitas"
Track 9: "Delvahle"
Thai Jones
Thai Jones reflects on growing up as a child of the Weather Underground: A Radical Line.
» Read an excerpt of A Radical Line in the Reading Room
Events: Thai Jones will be appearing on:
Tuesday, December 7th at 7pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
Music: Vietnam: Songs from the Divided House (Q Records/Atlantic Records)
Disc 2: Track 11: "Eve of Destruction" Barry McGuire
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA)
Track 15: "All Along the Watchtower"
Please Explain: How to Read a Poem
In this week’s Please Explain feature, we find out how to read a poem. We’ll hear from Molly Peacock, one of the founders of Poetry in Motion, the project that posts poems in subways and buses, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon.
» More on the Please Explain series
Music: Sonatine Soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi (BMG)
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A number of this year’s National Book Award winners have appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show. Click here to see the list!
Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Please Explain: Eco-Labels
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.
