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(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Micro-trends, Marriage, and Medicine
Mark Penn, Burson-Marsteller CEO and former campaign advisor to Hillary Clinton, explains the micro-trends he thinks are shaping our culture. Then we'll get an update on the elections in Kurdistan. Plus, our summer reading series, Underappreciated, returns. Novelist Rafael Yglesias talks about A Happy Marriage. And three scientists from Brooklyn College discuss the complexities of drug research.
Microtrends
Burson-Marsteller CEO, and campaign advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, discusses the ever-splintering subsets that Americans identify with, and what they mean. In Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes, Penn draws lessons from small but influential groups such as "soccer moms" and "Nascar dads," and looks at how they affect business, culture, technology, diet, politics, and education in this country.
Kurdish Election Results
Elections were held in Kurdistan this past weekend. We'll parse the results with former Boston Globe international correspondent Aliza Marcus, who recently returned from south Kurdistan. Her book is called Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence.
Underappreciated: Alamut
On our first Underappreciated segment of the summer, we look at the Slovenian novel Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol, a story that takes place in 11th-century Persia. It was originally published in 1938 and was widely translated, but wasn’t published in English until 2004. Michael Biggins, the translator of the English edition and head of the Slavic and East European Section of the University of Washington Libraries, and Tjasa Koprivec, an editor at the Slovenian publisher Sanje, which publishes the current Slovenian edition of Alamut, explain why the book should be read more, and why the author is such an intriguing character.
A Happy Marriage
Rafael Yglesias discusses his latest novel, A Happy Marriage. The story alternates between describing the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of the courtship of Enrique and Margaret and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, children, and her husband, Enrique, after 30 years of marriage.
The Art of Drug Design
Maria Contel, Roberto Sanchez-Delgado, and Richard Magliozzo, professors from Brooklyn College who are working on pharmaceutical research, talk about the complexities of their work, and how to strike a balance among the human, technical, and financial resources available to them without compromising their findings.
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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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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.
