On this episode, Josh Weber talks with Viorica Marian, a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, about her seminal work, The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds. She directs the university’s Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Lab. Language enable us to do more than to speak differently, but also think differently. Language we discover reading in this book, isn’t limited to just verbal symbolism; one can also be fluent in math or music. Josh asks Marian about the limitati ..read more

Liz Olds talks with Aaron Philip Clark about his noir mystery, featuring an ex-cop private eye in Los Angeles ..read more

Originally aired June 13, 2023. Liz opens the show with Nilima Rao, author of debut mystery A Disappearance in Fiji.  After the break, Annie and William Brewer discuss his sharp and compassionate new novel, The Red Arrow ..read more

Originally aired February 7, 2023.  On this episode, Dave Fettig begins the episode talking with Patti Horvath about her debut story collection, But Now Am Found. The characters in these stories struggle to make sense of upheaval in their lives. But Now Am Found is a compelling exploration of the human spirit confronted by abrupt and rending change. in the second part, Annie Harvieux has a discussion with Linda LeGarde Grover about her poetry collection, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives. The Sky Watched is a collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal commun ..read more

Originally aired March 28, 2023. MollieRae is joined by Adger Cowans to discuss his photography, painting, poetry, and music. Minneapolis musicians, "Temple Trio", play interpretative jazz throughout the program as well.     ..read more

Originally aired January 31, 2023. Liz opens the show discussing Surrender with author Brian O'Hare. After the break, a Legacy interview ..read more

Originally aired January 24, 2023.  Liz opens the show with Neal Wooten and his newest book, Devil's Help — a tale of Deep South family, secrets, and severe mental illness. After the break, MollieRae and Wayne Johnson discuss Johnson's Jennie's Boy, a narration of his true unconventional childhood in Newfoundland ..read more

Originally aired January 17, 2022. Liz and Carolyn Hays open the show discussing A Girlhood, Hays's ode to her transgender daughter. After the break, the team revisits an interview with Michael Bazzett from the release of his translation of the Popol Vuh ..read more

Originally aired January 10, 2023.  Josh opens the show with Dacher Keltner, Berkeley psychologist and author of Awe: the New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.  After the break, MollieRae welcomes Kelly Barnhill, whose new work When Women Were Dragons combines sci-fi and feminism in a midcentury setting ..read more

Liz Olds talks with Aaron Philip Clark about his noir mystery, featuring an ex-cop private eye in Los Angeles ..read more