Margaret Atwood, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, discussing her books, Moral Disorder, Writing with Intent and The Penelopiad, recorded in December, 2006 in the KPFA studios. Fifth in a series of seven interviews with the legendary writer.
Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
Guest: Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.
Guest: Gerard Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation’s International Security Program and the Foreign Policy Center in London, and author of the book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East.
Guest: Dr. Edmund Ghareeb, Adjunct Professor of Middle East history and politics in the School of International Service at American University, internationally recognized expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues, and co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Iraq.
Isaac Asimov, who died in 1992 at the age of 72, was one of science fiction’s greatest writers. The author of the Foundation Trilogy, “I Robot,” “The Gods Themselves,” and several other novels, along with over a hundred other books, he is widely recognized as a writer for the ages. This interview with host Richard Wolinsky was conducted on August 10, 1983 for KPFA’s Probabilities radio series. Photo/Illustration: Creative Commons
Guest: Jonathan Lyons, author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than twenty years.
Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of the books Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of Bullshit Jobs