Role playing - Fiction;
College students - Fiction;
Friendship - Fiction;
Mystery
Rona Jaffe discusses her novel, “Mazes and Monsters.” She begins by explaining that her book is about four college friends who bond over playing a medieval war game. She talks about the individual characteristics of the friends, and how the...
Children - United States - Social conditions;
Adjustment (Psychology) in children - United States;
Adjustment (Psychology) - United States;
Popular culture - United States;
Life skills - United States;
United States - Social life and customs - 1971-
Douglas Rushkoff discusses his book, “Playing the Future: How Kids’ Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive in the Age of Chaos.” He begins by explaining that his book discusses the connection between DNA, evolution, culture, and technology. He...
Musicians - Fiction; Conductors (Music) - Fiction; San Francisco (Calif.) - Fiction
Peter Duchin discusses his book, “Blue Moon.” He begins by discussing his interest in mystery books and his job playing the piano and how it sparked the idea for a character that observes a murder while playing in a band at a hotel. Duchin goes...
Scheer, Robert; Presidents - United States - Interviews; United States - Politics and government - 1945-1989; United States - Politics and government - 1989-
Robert Scheer discusses his book, “Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton: and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush.” He begins by explaining the differences between a political...
Pianists;
Pianists - United States - Biography;
Musicians - United States - Biography
Academy Award winning composer and pianist John Green discusses his life and plays selections from songs he’s composed. He begins by talking about his early life, and publishing his first song while studying at Harvard. He discusses his...
Admiral Thomas Hamilton discusses his life and his time serving in the United States Navy. He begins by explaining the history of the U.S.S. Enterprise naval vessel. He talks about his job as a football coach for the Naval Academy and his...
Herman, Jerry, 1933-;
Composers - United States - Biography
Jerry Herman discusses his autobiography, “Showtune.” He begins by explaining his life and career as a Broadway composer. He talks about his early life and his love for the piano. He describes how his mother encouraged him to pursue a music...
Japanese American children - Fiction;
Race relations - Fiction;
Wisconsin - Fiction
Nina Revoyr discusses her novel, “Wingshooters.” She begins by explaining that her book is about a Japanese American girl who grows up in a rural town in Wisconsin. She talks about the joys and restrictions of living in a small town. She...
Swindlers and swindling - Fiction;
Santa Fe (N.M.) - Fiction
John Vorhaus discusses his novel, “The Albuquerque Turkey.” He begins by explaining that his book is about a con artist couple who decide to stop swindling people. He talks about his career training writers overseas to write funny comedy...
Kasha, Al - Health;
Agoraphobia - Patients - United States - Biography
Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn discuss their book, “Reaching the Morning After.” They begin by explaining that their book is an autobiographical account of their lives, and their success from writing the Academy Award winning song, “The...
Older women - Fiction;
Jewish women - Fiction;
Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction
Merrill Joan Gerber discusses her novel, “Anna In Chains.” She begins by explaining that her book is fiction, but is based on her mother’s adventures in life. She talks about her main character Anna, a widow who is recovering from an...
Joe Namath discusses his book, “Football for Young Players and Parents.” He begins by explaining that being a success in sports starts with having good coaches and good parents along with being a good listener. The book is geared towards...
Television broadcasting - United States; American Broadcasting Company; Goldenson, Leonard H.
Leonard Goldenson discusses his book, “Beating the Odds.” He begins by explaining that the book is about the behind the scenes story of the rise of the ABC network. He discusses his role as the founder of ABC and what led him to foresee a...
Farley Granger and Robert Calhoun discuss their book, “Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway.” Granger says he was discovered at the age of 17, and that Samuel Goldwyn signed him. He talks about Howard Hughes and his takeover of...
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962; Presidents' spouses - United States - Biography; Leadership - United States
Robin Gerber discusses her book, "Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage." Gerber says Eleanor Roosevelt was committed to social change and talks about Roosevelt's childhood. She shares that...
Libraries - Fiction; Time travel - Fiction; Books and reading - Fiction; Women detectives - Great Britain - Fiction; Characters and characteristics in literature - Fiction; Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) - Fiction
Jasper Fforde discusses his book, “The Well of Lost Plots.” He begins by explaining the plot of the novel, which follows the heroine Thursday Next, who is a detective who specializes in cases involving the protection of the plots and characters...
Kaufman, Louis, 1905-1994; Violinists - United States - Biography
Annette Kaufman discusses her book, “A Fiddler’s Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi discovered Me,” co-authored with her husband, Louis Kaufman. She shares that Louis started playing the fiddle after hearing Gypsy fiddlers in Romania at his...
Capital market; Capital market - State supervision; Capitalism - Moral and ethical aspects; Common good - Economic aspects
Raghuram Rajan discusses his book, “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.” He begins by discussing the basic premise of capitalism and how capitalism affords everyone the opportunity to become wealthy, but the problem is that those that...
Landon, Michael, 1936-1991 - Anecdotes; Television actors and actresses - United States - Anecdotes
Harry Flynn discusses his book, “Michael Landon.” He begins by discussing Michael Landon’s life growing up and the television special he did on being a bed wetter. Flynn then explains how Landon discovered he had cancer. He goes on to share...
Saginor, Jennifer; Playboy Enterprises - Biography; Children of divorced parents - Psychology; Girls - Conduct of life
Jennifer Saginor discusses her autobiography, “Playground.” She begins by talking about her father’s occupation as Hugh Hefner’s physician and her early childhood memories of swimming and playing at the Playboy Mansion. She also gives...
