Who was Joe DiMaggio when he wasn’t playing his incredible and mesmerizing game of baseball? Who did he become after retirement? We’ll talk this hour with writer and cultural critic Jerome Charyn. His new book on the baseball icon is “Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil” (Yale, 2011).
What can be learned from a year in the Danbury, Connecticut Federal Correctional Institution for Women? We’ll find out this hour with communications executive Piper Kerman, who writes about her experience in the new memoir “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison” (Spiegel & Grau, Paperback, 2011).
Where do we get our image of the Wild West and just how accurate are the stories of cold-blooded outlaws and the lawmen sworn to bring them to justice? We’ll spend this hour with writer and Southwest Studies expert Mark Lee Gardner, author of “To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy […]
How might the inclusion of women in Afghanistan’s economic future improve the country’s stability? This hour, we’ll preview this week’s George W. Bush Presidential Center conference “Building Afghanistan’s Future: Promoting Women’s Freedom and Advancing their Economic Opportunity.” Our guests will include Jim Glassman, Executive Director of the Bush Institute and former Undersecretary of State for […]
How did an advertisement for real estate become the symbol of fame, fortune and everything that goes with it? We’ll talk this hour with Leo Braudy, University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature at the University of Southern California. He explores the history of one of the most famous signs […]
From the Archives: Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America’s greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” […]
Program Alert: March 25, 2011 Think airs Monday to Thursday from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. on KERA-FM and at 7:00 p.m. every Friday except the last Friday of the month on KERA-TV. Podcasts and streamed video are available online at www.kera.org/think. KERA Think Rundown – Week of 3/28/11 Monday, 3/28 Noon: Will computers one […]
What do culture, food and wine tell us about a specific place and time? We’ll spend this hour with journalist and travel writer Robert V. Camuto who explores the rugged island of Sicily in his new book “Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey” (Nebraska, 2010).
Will computers one day do our thinking for us? We’ll talk this hour with Brian Christian whose new book is “The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive” (Doubleday, 2011). Christian will take us behind the scenes at the annual Turing test which pits artificial intelligence […]
Urban development is the main topic of discussion with Robert Bagwell, whose company developed the chic West Village neighborhood in Uptown that features retail and residential properties.
