Live at Politics and Prose

Latest Episodes:

Tracy Crow and Jerri Bell : Live at Politics and Prose Aug 11, 2017

Show notes

Women have officially been allowed to serve in the military since 1917, but they’ve fought in America’s wars since the Revolution. In this illuminating anthology of women’s writings about their experiences in war, editors Bell, a retired naval officer and the managing editor of O-Dark-Thirty, and Crow, a former Marine Corps officer and the author of Eyes Right, present a wide range of excerpts from diaries, letters, oral histories, pension depositions, and published and unpublished memoirs. From the Revolution and Civil Wars, when women soldiers had to disguise themselves as men, to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they’ve had to contend with sexual harassment from male colleagues, women have served with courage, resourcefulness, and resilience. This is military history as it has not been written before.

Ann Hornaday : Live at Politics and Prose Aug 04, 2017

Show notes

To get the most out of a film, Hornaday argues, viewers need to be as actively engaged in watching it as the filmmakers were in creating it. Film critic for The Washington Post, Hornaday guides us through the movie-making process and shows how to break down a film into its seven fundamental parts. For each component—screenplay, acting, production design, cinematography, editing, sound and music, and direction—she suggests key questions to ask and draws examples from a wide range of classic and recent films in all genres.

Angela J. Davis: Live at Politics and Prose Jul 28, 2017

Show notes

This timely and important collection of essays by writers including Bryan Stevenson, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Jeremy Travis, examines the role of racism in the country’s criminal justice system and reports on the recent killings of black men and boys by police. Edited by Angela J. Davis, a long-time civil rights activist, advocate for prison inmates, professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law, and author of Arbitrary Justice, the book discusses issues such as racial profiling, implicit bias, the disproportionate imprisonment of black men, mass incarceration, and the failure of the Supreme Court and other official bodies to reform the system.

Davis is joined in a panel discussion with three contributors to the book: Kristin Henning, Renée McDonald Hutchins, and Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.

Matthew Klam: Live at Politics and Prose Jul 21, 2017

Show notes

Klam won awards, acclaim, and a spot on The New Yorker’s “Twenty Best Fiction Writers in America under 40” list for Sam the Cat, his nervy, ironic debut collection of seven long stories. Coming sixteen years later, his first novel is a richly evocative study of passion and family as well as a sharply satirical look at today’s mass-consumer society. Unfolding during an artists’ conference at a seaside getaway, the story focuses on Rich and Amy, a cartoonist and student of narrative painting, respectively, as they meet again after a fling the previous summer to see what happens next. In Klam’s telling, what happens is painful and funny, compelling and unsettling.

Klam is in conversation with Jake Tapper, Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN.

Alexandra Fuller: Live at Politics and Prose Jul 14, 2017

Show notes

Nina George: Live At Politics and Prose Jul 07, 2017

Show notes

Don Winslow: Live at Politics and Prose Jun 30, 2017

Show notes

After eighteen years in the NYPD, Denny Malone is the star of its elite force. He has an outstanding record and seems to have risen above the city’s ever-present corruption. In fact, he’s far from clean. He and his partners made off with millions in drugs and cash after a recent bust—and federal investigators are suspicious. Malone can’t confess without bringing down half the force, and now isn’t the time to do that. A rash of racial incidents is threatening to explode, and every cop is crucial to keeping the situation under control. A story of good men gone not completely bad, of ethics complicated by real-life situations, Winslow’s latest thriller is a masterpiece of psychological suspense in the vein of his earlier The Cartel, The Power Of The Dog, and Savages

Manal Al-Sharif: Live At Politics and Prose Jun 23, 2017

Show notes

One of the Middle East’s most prominent women’s right activists, Manal al-Sharif grew up in a modest family in Mecca. Devout in her youth, she didn’t associate with non-Muslims and destroyed her brother’s cassettes of forbidden music. But by her twenties she was working as a computer security engineer for Aramco. Her professional status didn’t exempt her from restrictive rules on women’s behavior, and she was required to have her brother chaperone her on business trips. Her frustration grew into defiance, and in 2011 she was imprisoned for driving her car. Awarded the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2012 and named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” al-Sharif tells an inspiring story of rebellion and resilience and offers a rare glimpse of the lives of Saudi women today.

Ali Soufan: Live at Politics and Prose Jun 16, 2017

Show notes

Brooke Gladstone: Live at Politics and Prose Jun 09, 2017

Show notes

With the explosion of “fake news” and “alternative facts,” not to mention a president who communicates via “diversion” tweets, “trial balloon” tweets, and “deflection” tweets, even the most basic notion of reality feels under assault in this new media landscape. In a frank and incisive discussion of both traditional and new media in the age of Trump, Gladstone, co-host and managing editor of On the Media, expands on the Peabody Award-winning radio show and podcast’s mission of demystifying the making of the news. Drawing on ideas from public intellectuals including Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, and Jonathan Swift, she develops a framework for navigating the world of Trump’s tweets. Gladstone will be in conversation with Margaret Sullivan a Media Columnist for The Washington Post.

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Live at Politics and Prose

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Live at Politics and Prose

Related Podcasts

1

2

3

4

5

6