Gina Nahai talks about her novel, Caspian Rain. Nahai was born Jewish in Iran and emigrated to the United States near the end of the Shah's reign. Caspian Rain is set in the decade before the Islamic revolution in Iran and is about a young Jewish girl who tries to decipher the Iranian society and her parents relationship while losing her hearing. Nahai also has interesting insights into the current situation in Iran.
Listen to the interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
Saturday, January 19, 2008
About Books, February 16, 2008
Paul Barrett returns to About Books to talk about the paperback release of American Islam: the Struggle for the Soul of a Religion. Paul started the book as part of his work for the Wall Street Journal after 9/11. He traveled the country and profiles seven American Muslims: a publisher, a scholar, an Imam, a feminist, a mystic, a webmaster and an activist. This book, on many "best of 2007" lists, is a essential ingredient in understanding the role of Muslims in American.
Listen to the interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
Listen to the interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
About Books, February 9, 2008
Andre Aciman talks about his novel, Call Me By Your Name which has recently come out in paperback. Aciman, who teaches comparative literature in New York, was on the Augustana campus last year and I visited with him about his memoir, Out of Egypt. I remember his saying that, because he has lived in Egypt, Italy, France and the United States, he doesn't have a sense of having a country. Call Me By Your Name is a love story set during a summer in Italy and draws on some of Aciman's experience of global living.
Listen to the interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
Listen to the interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
About Books, February 2, 2008
Barrymore Laurence Scherer, music critic for The Wall Street Journal, talks about his new book, The History of American Classical Music. The book has a CD with it so that readers can listen to the music being discussed. The book also has the access code and password to a website with many more hours of listening and a concise timeline showing key developments and cultural events world wide.
Listen to interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
Listen to interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
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