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On today's show, we'll look at what kind of help is available for those without health insurance. Then, we'll pay tribute to one of Scotland’s greatest novels: James Hogg’s 1824 masterpiece The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, as part of our summer Underappreciated Literature series. Plus: a new novel imagines two real-life master pulp writers pitted against an evil madman in 1937. And Mike Wallace remembers some of the highlights of his 60 years on the air.
How to Get Health Insurance
There are 150 uninsured people for every physician in America. We’ll ask Jim Brown, of The Actors’ Fund of America’s Health Insurance Resource Center, and attorney Robert M. Hayes, of the Medicare Rights Center, about what kind of help is available for the uninsured. And we’ll take your calls on how to get health insurance if you need it.
»AHIRC's New York website
»Medicare Rights Center's website
More resources:
»The Commonwealth Fund
»Working Today
»New York City Free Clinic
»Healthy New York
»Health Pass, help for small business owners
»More info about Woodhull hospital's Artists Access bartering program
»Atlantis, a more affordable HMO
»Fractured Atlas
»Media Bistro
Underappreciated Literature: James Hogg
In 1824, the poet and shepherd James Hogg wrote one of Scotland’s most important novels: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The book was not seen as a masterpiece at the time, and for decades critics dismissed Hogg as a minor writer. Now, he’s recognized as a literary genius, and the author of one of the world’s first psychological novels. Dr. Gillian Hughes of the James Hogg Society joins us for our Underappreciated Literature series.
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A New Take on Classic Pulp
Paul Malmont's new pulp novel, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, imagines what would happen if two of the genre’s greatest writers went head-to-head with a criminal mastermind.
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60 Years and 60 Minutes
Veteran “60 Minutes” reporter Mike Wallace shares some of the highlights of his 60 years in broadcast journalism in his new memoir: Between You and Me.
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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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Frank McCourt
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FDA to Regulate Tobacco?
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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Now Leonard is on Facebook! We’re posting photos, status updates, links to notable interviews, and lots more. Check it out.
Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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