At National Public Radio, Heller McAlpin reviews Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy.
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Humor as Both Sword and Shield
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, heller mcalpin, npr, shalom auslander
Of Ethical Consequence
On National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Scott Simon interviews Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption.
SS: You actually recommended an information diet that is kind of the equivalent to Michael Pollan’s famous food diet, which is: eat food not too much, mostly plants.
CJ: That’s right. It’s, you know, seek not too much, mostly facts. Right? Eat low on these sorts of information food chain and stick close to sources. If it’s an article on a bill in Congress or even, you know, a statehouse somewhere, going deep and actually trying to read the bill itself is really, I think, advantageous.
And it takes a little bit of time to pick up. Bills are not, you know, House resolutions are not the most entertaining things to read for most people. But getting to know what our legislative language is helps us, I think, become better citizens.
Posted in Reading
Tagged clay johnson, internet, interview, nonfiction, npr, scott simon
Almost Too Believable
At National Public Radio, Michael Schaub reviews Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, chan koonchung, china, michael schaub, npr
Bolstered from the Inside Out
At National Public Radio, Alan Heathcock extols the virtues of the daily reading of poetry.
Posted in Reading
Tagged alan heathcock, npr, poetry
Because of the Regulatory Environment
On WHYY’s Fresh Air Terry Gross interviews Tom Mueller, author of Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil.
GROSS: So the good news about olive oil is that it’s, like, way more complex and interesting and tasty and subtle than people like me ever imagined. The bad news is that a lot of oil – a lot of olive oil is adulterated. It isn’t what it says it is. What are some of the ways that olive oil is adulterated?
MUELLER: Well, essentially, people are taking lower-priced products and putting them into and blending them with or putting them neat into bottles that are labeled extra virgin. The worst or the most flagrant kinds of cases are blending with other vegetable oils.
This remains a problem particularly in the food service sector, although it does happen in retail, as well – in other words, in supermarkets. Someone’s taking a soybean oil or a sunflower seed oil and coloring it with chlorophyll and flavoring it with beta-carotene or something similar and selling the result as extra virgin olive oil.
Posted in Education
Tagged capitalism, food, fraud, interview, nonfiction, npr, terry gross, tom mueller
The Origins of the Brutality
For National Public Radio, Michael Schaub reviews Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, chile, michael schaub, npr, roberto bolano, translation
How Everything Got Started
On WHYY’s Fresh Air Terry Gross interviews James Wolcott, author of Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York.
Posted in Writing
Tagged interview, james wolcott, memoir, new york, npr, terry gross, usa
Village Nightmare
On National Public Radio’s All Things Considered Robert Siegel interviews Amos Oz.