Latest Novelists Podcast Episodes
Earth Day Special: Greg Wrenn, MOTHERSHIP & Elizabeth Kolbert, H IS FOR HOPE
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - April 27, 2024 00:06 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Greg Wrenn about his book Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis. It’s about healing the maladaptive imprinting of childhood trauma with Nature — and psychedelics. Then, a climate journalist tries a new tack to craft a narrative about the climate emergency. We talk with Elizabeth ...
War & Secrets: Howard Mansfield, I WILL TELL NO WAR STORIES & Sasha Vasilyuk, YOUR PRESENCE IS MANDATORY
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - April 18, 2024 21:40 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn this episode of Writer’s Voice, we feature two stories about war and secrets. First, we talk with Howard Mansfield about his book, I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid About World War II. The book uncovers the truth about the terrible toll that war took on American airmen l...
Brad Gooch on The Radiant Life of Keith Haring & more
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - April 12, 2024 22:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsBrad Gooch talks about his acclaimed new biography of Keith Haring, RADIANT.
Tessa Hulls, FEEDING GHOSTS & Remembering Frans de Waal
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - April 05, 2024 19:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsA grandmother’s traumatic history reverberates through three generations… We talk with Tessa Hulls about her powerful graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts. It tells the story of three generations of women — her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself —and how, in the process of writi...
Michael Zweig: Overcoming the Divisions of Class, Race & Gender
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - March 29, 2024 01:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMichael Zweig talks about his book, Class, Race and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism, and Francesca reads her story, The Sheep's Blessing.
Bonnie Jo Campbell, THE WATERS & Jenny Frost, THE EXTINCTION OF IRINA REY
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - March 22, 2024 00:22 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week we talk about two novels that explore connections: between men and women, people and nature, the young and the old.
St. Pat’s Day Special: Rue Matthiessen, CASTLES AND RUINS & Claire Coughlan, WHERE THEY LIE
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - March 14, 2024 23:22 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Rue Matthiessen, daughter of the famed writer Peter Mathiessen about her family memoir, Castles And Ruins: Unraveling, Family Mysteries, And Literary Legacy In The Irish Countryside. Then, Claire Coughlan tells us about her twisty-turny whodunit, Where They Lie. It’s a murder mystery...
Amitav Ghosh, SMOKE AND ASHES & Manjula Martin, THE LAST FIRE SEASON
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - March 08, 2024 22:47 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Amitav Ghosh about his masterful history of the opium trade, Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories. Then, Manjula Martin tells us about her personal and “pyro-natural” history of California wildfires — the ones she lived through in 2020 and the ones Indigenous people lived with b...
Charles Derber, DYING FOR CAPITALISM & Andy Lee Roth, STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2024
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - February 29, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsCharles Berber talks about Dying For Capitalism, How Big Money Fuels Extinction And What We Can Do About It. Then Andy Lee Roth on Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024.
Les Leopold, WALL STREET’S WAR ON WORKERS
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - February 22, 2024 22:49 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Les Leopold of the Labor Institute about his groundbreaking study of the political cost of mass layoffs. His book is Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It. Then we re-air a clip from our 2013 interview with L...
A Jazz-Age Murder That Toppled Gotham’s Mayor
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - February 16, 2024 00:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThe Rundown We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of our conversation with Paul Kix about You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live: Ten Weeks In Birmingham That Changed Ame...
Women, Vengeance, and Justice: Elizabeth Flock, THE FURIES. Plus, Stephen Robert Miller, OVER THE SEAWALL
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - February 08, 2024 18:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Elizabeth Flock about her book, The Furies. It follows three remarkable women — in the US, in India and in Syria — who took justice into their own hands to defend themselves, other women and their communities against abuse. Then, environmental journalist Stephen Robert Miller tells u...
Adam Shatz, THE REBEL’S CLINIC & Vanessa Lillie, BLOOD SISTERS
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - February 01, 2024 22:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMind & Liberation: Unveiling Frantz Fanon’s Revolutionary Psychiatry and Post-Colonial Vision. Also, a Cherokee murder mystery. We talk with Adam Shatz about his acclaimed biography, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. Then, a Cherokee murder mystery based on two very rea...
Hope For The Climate Crisis: Michael Mann, OUR FRAGILE MOMENT
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - January 25, 2024 20:50 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with world-renowned climate scientist Michael Mann about climate, past, present and future. His book is Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis. The world is largely past climate denialism (except for the Republican Party and its fascist le...
Douglas Preston & Emma Donnoghue, FOURTEEN DAYS
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - January 18, 2024 21:04 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with authors Douglas Preston and Emma Donoghue about a collaborative novel whose characters — and their stories — are each written by a different, major literary voice: Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering. Then, we remember Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday by airing some of our conve...
Cory Doctorow, THE LOST CAUSE
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - January 11, 2024 17:46 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Cory Doctorow about his new novel The Lost Cause, “a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency.” It imagines an America where another better world is possible, while confronting the evils of today. Writers Voice— in depth conversation with writers of all ge...
Adam Goodheart, THE LAST ISLAND & Jennifer Jewell, WHAT WE SOW
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - January 04, 2024 18:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe explore the people of North Sentinel Island, who are thought to be the last un-contacted tribe on Earth. Our guest is historian, essayist, and author Adam Goodheart and his book is The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth. Read The Interview Transcript Then, we...
Sy Montgomery & Matthew Patterson, OF TIME AND TURTLES
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - December 29, 2023 15:38 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsTurtles are jaw-droppingly amazing. Some can run faster than a 10-year-old; some can climb trees; others have shells that glow in the dark. We talk with The Soul of An Octopus author Sy Montgomery and illustrator Matthew Patterson about this and more amazing things about turtles. Their acclaimed ...
Mike Rothschild, JEWISH SPACE LASERS & Adam Hart, DEADLY BALANCE
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - December 22, 2023 16:08 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAntisemitism and conspiracy theories. Also, how to protect wildlife by protecting people. First, we talk with Mike Rothschild about his book: Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories. It’s about the persistence of rightwing antisemitism and its link to conspiracy ...
Steve Babson, THE FORGOTTEN POPULISTS & Lesléa Newman, ALWAYS MATT: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - December 15, 2023 16:11 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with labor educator and activist Steve Babson. His book is The Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy. Then, Heather Has Two Mommies author Lesléa Newman tell us about the enduring legacy of Matthew Shepard. Her new book is Always Matt: A Tribute to Matthew Shepar...
Corban Addison WASTELANDS: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - December 08, 2023 00:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhat happened when a poor African-American community went up against the biggest meatpacking company in the world? We spend the hour with Corban Addison talking about his spell-binding legal thriller, WASTELANDS: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial. Writers Voice— in depth conversation with w...
John Berger, SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - November 30, 2023 21:43 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsCan we achieve 100% clean power by 2030? We spend the hour with John Berger talking about his inspiring new book, Solving The Climate Crisis: Frontier Reports From The Race To Save The Earth. Writers Voice— in depth conversation with writers of all genres, on the air since 2004. Find us on Facebo...
Scott Chaskey, SOIL & SPIRIT – Ravinder Bhogal, COMFORT & JOY
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - November 23, 2023 12:38 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with poet, farmer and author Scott Chaskey about his new book, Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship In The Web of Life. It’s about poetry, soil, farming and community. Then, Chef Ravinder Bhogal introduces us to the comfort and joy of immigrant food. Her book is Comfort and Joy: Irres...
A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s Paris: STARCROSSED. Also, Margaret Renkl, THE COMFORT OF CROWS
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - November 17, 2023 00:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Simon Worrall and Heather Dune-Macadam. About the fascinating and tragic story of a young Jewish artist in Nazi-occupied Paris. Their book is STAR CROSSED: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s Paris. Then, New York Times columnist and author Margaret Renkl tells us about her acc...
Perilous Medicine: The Struggle To Protect Health Care From The Violence of War (encore)
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - November 14, 2023 17:36 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMilitary violence against hospitals, patients, and health workers has become a common feature of modern war. Israel’s current bombardment of hospitals, ambulances and medical personnel in Gaza is a textbook example of this disturbing trend. That’s why Writer’s Voice is re-posting our 2019 intervi...
Carl Safina, ALFIE AND ME & Charlotte Dennett, FOLLOW THE PIPELINES
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - November 02, 2023 21:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhat an owl taught a famed ecologist about a deadly human misconception. Also, the role of oil in the Israel/Palestine conflict. We talk with ecologist Carl Safina about his book, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. It’s about how a tiny ragged ball of fluff taught a famed ecologis...
Brant MacDuff, THE SHOTGUN CONSERVATIONIST
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - October 27, 2023 21:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsBrant MacDuff tells us why hunting is good for the environment. His book is The Shotgun Conservationist.
Gloria Dickie, EIGHT BEARS & Sonja Swift, ECHO LOBA, LOBA ECHO
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - October 12, 2023 15:37 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsGloria Dickie tells us about bears and how people relate to them, for good and for ill. Her book is Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future. And Sonja Swift discusses her book: Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves and Women.
Tan Twan Eng, THE HOUSE OF DOORS & Kerri Maher, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CALL
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - October 05, 2023 18:01 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe talk with Tan Twan Eng about his new novel, The House of Doors & Kerri Maher tells us about All You Have To Do Is Call.
David Lipsky, THE PARROT AND THE IGLOO: Climate & The Science of Denial
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon - September 28, 2023 22:42 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe spend the hour with David Lipsky talking about The Parrot and The Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial. It’s about the sordid history of climate denialism and its deep roots in the industry of tobacco denialism.
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