The Leonard Lopate Show
Experts in their Fields
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Former NPR correspondent Sarah Chayes gives her eyewitness account of Afghanistan after the Taliban. Later on, we’ll hear a live performance by the vocal ensemble known as Anonymous 4. And a comic book artist shares some tips. Plus, Ruth Reichl looks back at the life and work of the beloved food writer MFK Fisher.
Rebuilding Afghanistan
Sarah Chayes discusses why Afghanistan’s post-Taliban transition has been so troubled in The Punishment of Virtue. Sarah Chayes is the founder of Arghand, which sells hand-crafted products from Kandahar.
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Events: Sarah Chayes will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, September 5 at 7 pm
The Half King
505 West 23rd Street, at 10th Avenue
Sarah Chayes will be reading and signing books
Wednesday, September 6 at 7 pm
Astor Place Barnes & Noble
A Performance by Anonymous 4
The all-female vocalist group Anonymous 4 performs live from the new album Gloryland.
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Making Comics
Comic book artist Scott McCloud shares some tricks of his trade in Making Comics.
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Events: Scott McCloud will be signing books
Friday, September 8 at 5 pm
Midtown Comics
200 West 40th Street
A Literary Feast
Ruth Reichl (editor in chief of Gourmet magazine), Joan Reardon (author of the MFK Fisher biography Poets of the Appetites), and Jack Shoemaker (the editor of many MFK Fisher books and a longtime friend of the beloved food writer), discuss the publication of a new collection of MFK Fisher short stories and essays: A Stew or A Story .
A Stew of A Story is available for purchase at amazon.com
Poets of the Appetites available for purchase at amazon.com
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