Josh talks with Steven E. Mayer about his book How to Save the World. This book is for anyone who gets asked at least ten times a week to give money to a charitable organization—anything from your college or place of worship to your community’s food shelf or animal shelter. It helps you choose a set of donations or investments that stand up to your own scrutiny so you can feel your choices are meaningful and consistent with your values.
Live from Grey Duck Tavern, Josh speaks to Patrick Nathan about his new book The Future was Color, a dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles.
On this episode, Josh Weber talks with Viorica Marian, a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, about her seminal work, The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds. She directs the university’s Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Lab.
Language enable us to do more than to speak differently, but also think differently. Language we discover reading in this book, isn’t limited to just verbal symbolism; one can also be fluent in math or music. Josh asks Marian about the limitations of language in conveying our thoughts, how memory and perception overlap, and how language can influence how we conceptualize time.
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds by Viorica Marian
Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593187075/
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5SQQDTS/
Originally aired February 7, 2023.
On this episode, Dave Fettig begins the episode talking with Patti Horvath about her debut story collection, But Now Am Found. The characters in these stories struggle to make sense of upheaval in their lives. But Now Am Found is a compelling exploration of the human spirit confronted by abrupt and rending change.
in the second part, Annie Harvieux has a discussion with Linda LeGarde Grover about her poetry collection, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives. The Sky Watched is a collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems.
Originally aired January 10, 2023.
Josh opens the show with Dacher Keltner, Berkeley psychologist and author of Awe: the New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.
After the break, MollieRae welcomes Kelly Barnhill, whose new work When Women Were Dragons combines sci-fi and feminism in a midcentury setting.
Originally aired November 22, 2022
Josh interviews Carla J Hagen about her new novel, Muskeg. After the break, a legacy interview.
Originally aired November 1, 2022.
Michael Oren joins Liz at the top of the show to discuss his new novel, Swann’s War, which finds a woman taking over her husband’s role in law enforcement when he is away in World War II.
After the break, Josh welcomes Alan Miller, whose new novel Holding Court sees a supreme court justice kidnapped, leading to broader chaos.
Originally aired September 27, 2022.
Josh kicks off the show with Carol Dines and her newest book for young readers, The Take-Over Friend, which covers themes of guilt, jealousy, and possessiveness in friendship.
After the break, Liz speaks with Christine Wells, author of One Woman’s War, a novelization of the life of the real-life woman who provided the inspiration for Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond saga.
