Author Nassir Ghaemi

Since our May book is A First-Rate Madness, I thought I’d provide a little information about the author (taken from his website):

“Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH is an academic psychiatrist specializing in mood illnesses, especially bipolar disorder. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Pharm

acology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, where he directs the Mood Disorders Program. He is a also a Clinical Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and teaches at the Cambridge Health Alliance.  …

He is an active writer, and besides his books, he maintains two active blogs, and contributes posts or articles to other sites and magazines.”

I also found an interesting video on The Colbert Nation, where Stephen Colbert speaks with Nassir Ghaemi.  Very worth checking out!

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“Moby Duck” — on NPR and elsewhere

Since our April book is Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn, I thought I’d post some things that readers might find interesting.    First up is an article/interview on NPR, which includes the Fresh Air episode that can be listened to (click the link for the website).

I also found a really interesting article on Harper’s Magazine, by Donovan Hohn  — and also a nice article about Donovan Hohn, and his career as a writer in The Michigan Daily.

For readers looking for more information about the author, he has a website at www.donovanhohn.com

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Author Thomas Friedman on NPR

Since we’ll be discussing That Used to Be Us soon, I thought I’d post this link to Thomas Friedman on NPR.   There’s also a link on the page to listen to the original story on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Author Thomas Friedman

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Another interview with author David Margolick – on the Yale Press Log

Here’s another interview with David Margolick, author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock (which we’ll be meeting to discuss on February 20, 2013)

Here’s an excerpt:

YUP: The book took you twelve years to complete. Why so long?

DM: Well, apart from the multitasking that all journalists must do these days, the story turned out to be endlessly rich. I kept discovering more people who’d been touched by the picture—in Little Rock, in the United States, around the world, at the time it was taken and in the decades since. I interviewed dozens of people, some repeatedly, including seven of the other eight of the Little Rock Nine. I shudder to think how many times I questioned Elizabeth; whenever I told her I was almost certainly done she laughed, because she knew there would be more questions: there always were. Hazel got off more easily, though she, too, put up with a lot of me.

If you’d like to read the whole interview, please click here.

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In anticipation of our upcoming discussion of Elizabeth and Hazel — an interview with the author on Vanity Fair

Since we’ll be discussing Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick, coming up on February 20, 2013, I thought I’d post some information about an interview with the author that was on Vanity Fair.     Here’s a short excerpt:

Jaime Lalinde: Tell me about the genesis of this book. I know it started, in some small sense, with an article that ran on this Web site.

David Margolick: I was sent to Little Rock in 1999 to do a Clinton-related story that didn’t pan out. When I was there, I went to the museum across from Central High School and saw the poster in which the two women, now grown up, appeared together smiling. I thought, My God, these two women—these two archetypal antagonists—had actually reconciled; how could that possibly have happened? I was instantly curious about it, and knew there was a story there. I didn’t necessarily think there was a book in it, but I knew there was a story. I very quickly arranged to meet with the two women, and I went out to lunch with Elizabeth, Hazel, and Hazel’s husband, Antoine. After that we went back to Hazel’s house and I started to interview the two of them.

And you can click HERE to read the whole interview.

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More about Robert K. Massie —

As our January selection is Robert K. Massie’s book, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, I thought readers might like more about the author (please click on the links for the full information).

I found interviews with him on Charlie Rose (click in the middle of the screen and the video will start to play).

Booklist did a nice interview with him (this is a print article)

And here is an interesting piece that Robert K. Massie wrote for Politico

Author Robert K. Massie

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Some interviews with author Mary Roach —

Since we’ll be discussing Mary Roach’s book, Packing for Mars, soon, I thought I’d post some links to interesting interviews with her — one of these is a video clip, and the other two are print interviews:

Mary Roach on The Daily Show

Mary Roach interview on Bookslut

Mary Roach interview on The Rumpus

 

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Information on author Dava Sobel

We’ll be meeting on Wednesday, November 21st to discuss A More Perfect Heaven, so I thought I’d provide some information about the author.   This is just a snip about her, from her site:

Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995 and 2005, Penguin 1996), Galileo’s Daughter (Walker 1999, Penguin 2000), The Planets (Viking 2005, Penguin 2006), and A More Perfect Heaven (Walker / Bloomsbury, 2011).

In her forty years as a science journalist she has written for many magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker, served as a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and Omni, and co-authored five books, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake.

 

About A More Perfect Heaven:

A More Perfect Heaven realizes a long-standing dream of mine to write a play about Nicolaus Copernicus. “And the Sun Stood Still,” the centerpiece of my new book, dramatizes the events that convinced Copernicus to publish his “crazy” ideas concerning the Earth’s motion. The nonfiction narrative surrounding the play tells the facts of his life story and traces the impact of his seminal book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, to the present day. Readers who prefer a strictly historical account may of course skip over the play, though I suspect some will gravitate to the script—perhaps reading only that part.

You can read more about the author on her website.

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NPR Interview with Laura Hillenbrand

In anticipation of our upcoming discussion of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, I wanted to provide some information / interesting links.
NPR had an article, and an interview with author Laura Hillenbrand on November 10, 2010, which may be accessed HERE.

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Links to interviews with Alexandra Fuller

As promised in last night’s discussion, here are some links to interviews with Alexandra Fuller:

IndieBound Interview

NPR interview

The Guardian interview

Author Alexandra Fuller

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