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"Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked" by James Lasdun

Joe Donahue — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Ten years ago, James Lasdun, a poet and novelist, taught a fiction-writing workshop at a college in New York. One of his students was a young woman, "Nasreen," as he calls her in his new nonfiction book, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked.

Lasdun will join us to discuss his strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of the student, a self-styled “verbal terrorist,” who began trying, in her words, to “ruin him.” It is a frightening tale that continues for Lasdun to this very day.

"Back to School" by Mike Rose

Joe Donahue — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:35:00 +0000

Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves A Second Chance at Education is the first book to look at the schools that serve a growing population of “second-chancers,” exploring what higher education—in the fullest sense of the term—can offer our rapidly changing society.

American's Unwritten Constitution

Joe Donahue — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:35:00 +0000

We speak with Akhil Reed Amar about his new book, America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By.

Endtimes?: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times

Joe Donahue — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:09:22 +0000

From false stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to growing competition from online and twenty-four-hour cable news, the first decade of the twenty-first century was not particularly kind to the New York Times.

Slang: The People's Poetry

Joe Donahue — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0000

Michael Adams teaches English language and literature at Indiana University. He is the author of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon and editor of From Elvish to Klingon.