Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon

Katherine Harvey talks about the book she co-authored, The Bare Bones Broth Cookbook. Francesca reads her story The Food Philosophe. And finally we continue our Thanksgiving tradition with native American scholar Marge Bruchac telling us the real story behind the holiday.

Nancy J. Altman of Social Security Works speaks about the imminent threat to Medicare from the Republican Congress.

Mystery novelist Tana French talks about her latest book in the Dublin Murder Squad series, The Trespasser. Then we talk with Shaun Chamberlin about the late David Fleming’s book, Surviving The Future, which Chamberlin edited.

Cat behaviorist Sarah Ellis talks about The Trainable Cat: A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat. And We re-air our interview with cartoonist Ted Rall about his graphic biography of Donald Trump (encore).

Steven Hill on Expand Social Security Now! Bev Harris of Black Box Voting discusses voting machine code that weights votes differently and we get the long view on election fraud from historian Tracy Campbell.

Steven Hill discusses how to pay for Social Security expansion.

Bev Harris of BlackBox Voting. org explains how votes of minority workers are flagged, enabling them to be assigned lesser values in the final vote count. She also discusses how the vote tallies of certain candidates can be subtracted as the count proceeds.

Margot Livesy talks about her new novel, Mercury. Then, some great advice about writing that urges freedom and discipline: Alice Mattison talks about her book, The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control—and Live to Tell the Tale.

Gretchen Bakke discusses her terrific new book, The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future.

Lulu Fries'dat talks about troubling findings in her new report on the Florida Democratic primary between Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova, An Unpredictable, High Stakes Election.

Is Big Pharma fueling the ADHD epidemic? Alan Schwarz talks about his book, ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic. Then, maybe ADHD isn’t so much a disorder, as a different type of brain — one with great gifts, as well as deficits. Carol Gignoux discusses her book, Your Innovator Brain: The Truth About ADHD.

We spend the hour with journalist Antony Loewenstein talking about his book Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe. It’s a powerful indictment of the burgeoning global industry of profiting from the misery of the world’s most vulnerable citizens through privatizing basic goods and services when disaster strikes.

We talk with Josh Mitteldorf talks about his book, co-authored with Dorion Sagan, Cracking The Aging Code (Macmillan, 2016.) It’s about why we age and what we can do to slow aging down. Then, in keeping with our theme, we explore a novel about a man who never dies. We talk with Aaron Thier about his new work of fiction, Mr. Eternity.

Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast talks about his new film THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY.

Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson talks about her novel Another Brooklyn. It’s in the form of a coming-of age memoir set in an African-American neighborhood in Brooklyn in the 1970’s. Then a novel about a mother-daughter relationship, dependence and getting free: Deborah Levy talks about Hot Milk. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year.