Reprise - Because If There Is Ever A Need For 'Magical Thinking'...

Reprise - Because If There Is Ever A Need For 'Magical Thinking'...

Isabel Allende @isabelallende has been through a great deal in her life and that is why perhaps listening to her story now might be helpful to some? Believe it or not, the esteemed poet Pablo Neruda once called Isabel Allende "the worst journalist he had ever met..." This was because she had the effrontery to try and write his memoirs. Nevertheless, today Allende is the author of over a dozen books and memoirs of her own which together have sold fifty-one million copies. Her debut novel in 1982, The House of the Spirits, told the tale of four generations of a Chilean family and at ths time of this interview her latest work was a memoir The Sum of Our Days. This picks up the story where her last memoir, Paula, ended. She recently discussed politics and Pinochet, feminism, her home in Marin County with her second husband, the lawyer Willie Gordon and her extended family, the death of her daughter Paula, as well as the death of Willie's daughter, Jennifer. from a drug overdose and other details of her fascinating life with Claudia Cragg. Allende started the Isabel Allende Foundation on December 9, 1996 to pay homage to her daughter, Paula Frías Allende who experienced a coma after complications of the disease porphyria placed her on a hospital bed. Paula was only twenty-eight years old when she died in 1992. The foundation is "dedicated to supporting programs that promote and preserve the fundamental rights of women and children to be empowered and protected.

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Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect

Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect

Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Robert Kuttner (@rkuttnerwrites) whose latest book is The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy. Some of those interviewed in this long-run...

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Elderhood, Louise Aronson, Transforming How We Think and Feel About Ageing

Elderhood, Louise Aronson, Transforming How We Think and Feel About Ageing

Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with geriatrician and author, Dr. Louise Aronson (@LouiseAronson) on her new book, Elderhood, an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged sta...

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Ukraine, Russia, always in the news: what about the people?

Ukraine, Russia, always in the news: what about the people?

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From a Filipino shanty to Galveston, De Parle's Good Provider is One Who Leaves

For this show, Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Jason DeParle (@JasonDeParle) a veteran reporter for The New York Times, about his new book, A Good Provider is One Who Leaves (Viking, 1s...

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Shanthi Sekaran and her 'Lucky Boy' (REPRISE)

Shanthi Sekaran and her 'Lucky Boy' (REPRISE)

In Shanthi Sekaran's, 'Lucky Boy, Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's d...

20 Aug 201914min

The #DemocracyCollaborative, a"Democratic Economy' IS possible, with Ted Howard

The #DemocracyCollaborative, a"Democratic Economy' IS possible, with Ted Howard

The US economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent, says Ted Howard in conversation here with Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg). His new book, The Making of a Democratic Economy, written with ...

7 Aug 201937min

How To Become a New Technology Entrepreneur with Ran Poliakine

How To Become a New Technology Entrepreneur with Ran Poliakine

Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Ran Poliakine, a serial entrepreneur, inventor and industrial designer. In 2007, Poliakine founded Powermat Technologies, a company that utilized inductiv...

17 Jul 201932min

The BBC's Anita Anand discusses her 'Patient Assassin'

The BBC's Anita Anand discusses her 'Patient Assassin'

On April 13, 1919, a column of British troops marched into the Jallianwala Bagh, a public garden in Amritsar, a city in Punjab, where more than 15,000 Indians had gathered for a peaceful protest again...

4 Jul 201927min

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