Dr. Lewis Gordon & I talk about Imhotep, suppressed Kemetic intellectual histories, the healthiness of suffering under oppression, white supremacist narcissism in nutrition & education, & so much more. Dr. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; & Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He previously taught … Continued
Guest: Lisa Duggan is a journalist, historian, activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is a journalist, historian, activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of the new book Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads from his poem, A Coney Island of the Mind on KPFA in 1956. Photo: Creative Common license Steve Rhodes
KPFA’s celebration of the 100th birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, an hour-long special broadcast of a documentary, “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: San Francisco Locations”, Produced by Jim McKee of Earwax Productions, Inc. San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood … Continued
Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the co-author of the book Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court.
Lewis Hill, Pacifica’s first president and founder, moderates a panel discussing the issues surrounding the obscenity trial precipitated by Allen Ginsberg’s controversial poem, Howl, one of the classics of the early beat generation. Participating in the panel are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, publisher, poet, and owner of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, who was actually the … Continued
Guest: Linda Greenhouse is Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a Pulitzer Prize–winning Supreme Court journalist who is a contributing Op-Ed writer for The New York Times. She is author of several books including Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey
A celebration of Ferlinghetti’s career and of his book from New Directions, Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems, edited by Nancy J. Peters. The back cover reads, “In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes … Continued
The second half of an interview Jack Foley did with Lawrence Ferlinghetti on April 21, 1994. The interview took place at City Lights and in it Ferlinghetti candidly discusses his entire career. “PITY THE NATION (After Khalil Gibran)” from Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems: Pity the nation whose people are sheep and whose shepherds mislead them Pity the … Continued
Richard Wolinsky’s fourth and final interview with Gore Vidal (1925-2012) for the memoir “Point to Point Navigation,” and for a discussion of the politics of the George W. Bush era.
