Monica Hadley and guest host and community activist Bob Ferguson interview Peter Fusaro, noted speaker and author of 16 books including “What Went Wrong at Enron.” Fusaro’s passionis Green Energy and his his three most recent books have been “Cut Carbon, Grow Profits,” “Energy & Emissions: Collision or Convergence” and “Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds: The New Investment Paradigm.”
Peter is an energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial markets. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 30 years focusing on carbon trading, environmental impact of emissions, and renewable energy markets. Listen to this author interview for a clear explanation and perspective on these highly technical issues.
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September 20, 2012
Kate McGuinness just published her first novel, “Terminal Ambition,” a legal thriller that explores issues of sexual harassment and discrimination. It was put out by Kate’s publishing company Two XX Press.
Kate studied writing at the University of Southern California under the tutelage of Janet Fitch, who authored the Oprah Book Club selection “White Oleander.” She pursued further studies in creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before leaving the corporate world to tackle fiction-writing, Kate practiced law for 17 years at a major international law firm, where she was one of a handful of women to achieve coveted partnership status. A Fortune 500 company later recruited Kate to serve as its General Counsel. Today she’s a full-time writer who advocates for women’s rights. Her writing on women’s issues have appeared in Forbes Woman, The Women’s Media Center, Jezebel, Ms. JD, The Girls Guide to Law School, and Fem2pt0.
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September 12, 2012
Author of the best-selling memoirs “Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time”, “Truck: A Love Story,” and “Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting”, Michael Perry discusses his newest book “Visiting Tom: A Man, A Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace”. He’s written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Orion and Salon.com and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health. Michael and his family live in rural Wisconsin, where he remains active with the local volunteer rescue service and performs regularly with his band the Long Beds.
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September 6, 2012
B.K. Loren joins us for a discussion of her debut novel, “Theft,” categorized by writer Ann Pancake as a riveting combination of “part environmental novel, part elegy to place, part family tragedy, part murder mystery.” Her writing has garnered Pushcart nominations, fellowships, and inclusion among Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. She has worked as a naturalist, large predator monitor for Colorado State Parks, professional brainstormer, assistant chef, ranch hand, UPS driver, furniture maker, and college professor while still managing to produce prose that reviewers deem visceral, lyrical, and incandescent.
BK lives with her partner, two dogs, and two cats in Colorado, where long, daily walks enrich her reflections on life.
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August 24, 2012
One of the most common problems writers face is the dreaded “writer’s block”. Our guest, Rosanne Bane, a writing and creativity teacher, has, for decades, been giving writers help with this problem. Her new book, entitled, “Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance”(Tarcher/Penguin), deals with the problems writers face in a new and innovative way. Using the latest discoveries in brain science to help understand the origin of this writing resistance – a fight-or-flight response hard-wired into our brain, which can make us desperate to avoid the sources of our anxieties, her book lays out an effective plan to solve that resistance.
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August 17, 2012
Senior Editor and Multimedia Editor at The Atlantic, Jennie Rothenberg Gritz produces an online edition of the magazine, edits TheAtlantic.com’s National Channel, and creates original videos for the website. Before being with The Atlantic, she was senior editor of Moment, a national magazine founded by Elie Wiesel.
Jennie grew up in Fairfield, earned her B.A. in Literature from the Maharishi University of Management, and received an M.A. in Journalism from the University of California in Berkeley. Her writing has been featured in The Chicago Tribune and the book “The Kindness of Strangers”, a Lonely Planet travel writing anthology.
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August 8, 2012
Author/playwright Dr. Lawrence McCullough is our guest this week. Fairfield’s Way Off Broadway, Iowa’s only professional musical theater company, is currently running the production, “Orphan Train”, which is based on the book Lawrence wrote about New York orphans sent to live in Iowa. The musical runs through Aug 12th. Gov. Terry Branstadt has declared Aug 12 as Iowa Orphan Commemoration Day.
An accomplished musician and composer, Dr. McCullough has recorded on 34 albums and performed on film and television soundtracks including Ken Burns’ The West, Lewis and Clark, the film Michael Collins and PBS specials Alone Together, and more.
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August 1, 2012
Lynda Young returns for a very special conversation. Her new book, “Hope for Families of Children on the Autistic Spectrum”, is a helpful book at this time when 730,000 children in the United States between the ages of 0-21 have Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her book provides useful information, encouragement, and guidance for the entire family. Lynda discusses everything from doctor and dental visits to play times with friends. Lynda is a national award-winning author, nationwide speaker, and co-founder of Kindred Spirits International, whose ministries include children’s hospitals, and the Amani ya Juu, refugee women’s mission in Kenya,
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July 16, 2012
Join us for this lively interview with Anne Greenwood Brown. Ann grew up sailing the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior, leaning over the bow, and wondering what amazing thing might flash by.
In her book, “Lies Beneath,” she answers that question. “Lies Beneath” is a Young Adult fantasy about three scary mermaids and their more compassionate brother.
Anne lives in Minnesota with her patient husband and three hilarious children.
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July 10, 2012
Eric Johnson discusses writing, marketing, and formatting ebooks and other topics related to new trends in publishing. Eric, founder of Inkslinger Industries, has written, “How to Make a Book with iBooks Author”. He created it in an ebook format.
Eric explored book arts at Brown University, where he handcrafted books using techniques taught by Walter Feldman, whose artists’ books are included in over 150 public collections. Eric also studied the artistic practice of Cave Writing.(Cave Writing takes place in a CAVE simulator, a virtual reality environment typically reserved for scientific visualization.) While at Brown, Eric also served as a Writing Fellow.
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