KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, historian, and author of The Extra Woman and her latest, Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism.  Her writing appear in several outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Paris Review series Feminize Your Canon.     The post Heterodoxy: The Secret Club that Sparked the Feminist Movement appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ronald Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books including, Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, and They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide. Photo credit: RIA Novosti archive, image #359290 / Yuryi Abramochkin / CC-BY-SA 3.0 The post The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. An Anatomy of a Marine Die-off at the San Francisco Bay. Guest: Damon Tighe (@damontighe) is a Naturalist who documents wildlife in Lake Merritt. Part II. At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth Guest: Madeline Ostrander is a freelance environmental journalist based in Seattle and the author of At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth.  Her her latest article in the Nation Magazine is In the Era of Climate Migration, What Will “Home” Mean?  You can cling to home as property—fight for yourself and your own financial gain. Or you can love a home and belong to it—and defend community, place, and planet. The post An Anatomy of a Marine Die-off in the SF Bay & At Home on an Unruly Planet appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic. He is is the author of I Contain Multitudes, and his latest An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. The post The Diversity of Perception in the Animal Kingdom and How Humans Force Creatures Into an Alien World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Emily L. Quint Freeman, author of Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss.  In 1969 in Chicago Emily L Quint Freemen broke into a military draft board office and destroyed 40 thousand draft records–potentially saving the lives of many men who would may have otherwise been drafted to serve in Vietnam. The act forced her an underground life as a fugitive for two decades. It’s a remarkable story full of danger, love, freedom and loss. The post Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of more than twenty books including her latest, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.  She is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. The post ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times.  Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History), and his latest, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.   The post Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Marcello Musto is the author of The Last Years of Karl Marx.  He is also a Professor of Sociological Theory at York University where he is the founding director of the Laboratory for Alternative Theories. The post Karl Marx’s Final Years appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA.  He is author or co-editor of numerous award-winning books including Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press, 1997); Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (The Free Press, 1994), and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2022) will be released next week to celebrate its Twenty Anniversary Edition.   The post Robin D. G. Kelley: A History of Black Radicalism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mike Rothschild is a journalist and author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.     The post Understanding QAnon and the Conspiracy Theory of Everything appeared first on KPFA.