KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Mary Jo McConahay
World War II-- It was exactly that--- a world war. And that included Latin America. Many of us are unaware of the high stakes war game that was being played out south of our border.
Mary Jo McConahay's new book, The Tango War; The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II brings that dramatic history to life.
As an award-winning journalist, McConahay's work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Ms., Salon, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and many more publications.
She began her journalism career late 70s freelancing in Mexico; then, she become a staff reporter for the Arab News, in Saudi Arabia. She reported for the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, and London-based Middle EaST Economic Digest . She has covered wars in Central American and economics in the Middle East.
McConahay is also a documentary film maker. Her films follow individuals who pursue social justice with their lives.
She is currently hard at work on her next book- about latin america during the cold war. This next book picks up where The Tango War ends.
McConahay's other books include Maya Roads, One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rain Forest , and Ricochet, Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire.
Mary Jo McConahay joins us by phone from San Francisco.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Dr. Peter Smith
Dr. PETER SMITH is pioneer and leader in education. He is the author of 4 books on the subject including- Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology For Learning and Your Hidden Credentials: The Value of Personal Learning Outside College.
His latest book, Free Range Learning In The Digital Age,The Emerging Revolution In College Career and Education, is just out.
Smith served as founding president of California State University, Monterey Bay,and the founding president of the Community College of Vermont
Smith earned a Masters and Doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor's degree in History from Princeton..
In an earlier incarnation, Smith represented his home state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives. He also served as Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
He has been the assistant director general for education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as well as a senior fellow at the American Council on Education and vice president for development at Norwich University.
In addition to that, Peter Smith is currently the President of the Board of KSFR Radio.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Hampton Sides
HAMPTON SIDES is best-known for writing non-fiction adventure stories about times of war or epic expeditions of discovery and exploration. He is the author of the bestselling books- Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder and, In the Kingdom of Ice.
His newest book- On Desperate Ground, comes out in October 2018. But if you are in Santa Fe, you are in luck because Hamtpon Sides will be at at the Violet Crown Theater on later today, Wednesday September 26 6:30 for a book launch and party. He will be reading and signing his new book along with a slideshow. Several Korean War Veterans will be joining him. The event is sponsored by Collected Works. He will also be reading at the Kimo theatre in Albuquerque on November 1st, 2018. That event is sponsored by Bookworks.
As a journalist, his work has been collected in numerous published anthologies.. He has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Hampton is editor-at-large for Outside and a frequent contributor to National Geographic and other magazines.
Hampton Sides graduated from Yale University with a BA in History. Sides was a fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in 2015. He is also a partner of Atalaya Productions, an independent film company that develops non-fiction and historical stories for the screen.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Ray John de Aragon
RAY JOHN DE ARAGON is the author of 15 books including two children's books. His best known books include New Mexico Book of the Undead, The hidden history of Spanish New Mexico, Haunted Santa Fe and Padre Martinez and Bishop Lamy .
In college, he studied education and went on to earn advanced degrees in American studies with an emphasis on the history, customs and language of New Mexico, including folklore. He has held pivotal positions throughout the state in the NM Educational System. He has been a lecturer at all of the state's universities and colleges.In addition, he has presented programs at New Mexico museums and archives.
However, perhaps his deepest education in NM History came from his family. His childhood was populated with tales of ghosts,like La Llorona- as Well as witches and spirits and curanderas. Ray John de Aragon was born and grew up in Las Vegas NM. His great grandmother was a famous Curandera, a healer who uses herbs for spells and healing. Aragon has made it his life's work to write down and preserve that rich cultural history.
In addition to writing books, Aragon is a traditional santero/fine artist, and a performing artist who has appeared in several theatrical stage lead roles and one movie. He has served on the board of the New Mexico Art Council, and the New Mexico Arts Alliance
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: James McEnteer
James McEnteer is a journalist who has been keeping a sharp, critical eye on U.S. politics and cultural life... particularly in Texas.
His journalism and opinion pieces appear in print and on line in- ZMag, CounterPunch, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Free Press,Foreign Policy in Focus, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. and many others.
McEnteer is the author of four books including Shooting the Truth: the Rise of American Political Documentaries and FIGHTING WORDS: INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS IN TEXAS.
His most recent book, ACTING LIKE IT MATTERS, chronicles thirty years of the LAPD- That stands for The Los Angeles Department of Poverty… The LAPD is a unique theatre company made up of largely homeless and formerly homeless men and women from Los Angeles' skid row.
His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications and online.
After earning a BA at Wesleyan, James McEnteer earned graduate degrees from the Universities of British Columbia and Texas at Austin. He had Fulbright grants in New Zealand and the Philippines and was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has taught and lectured at various universities. He currently lives in Quito, Ecuador.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Malinda Maynor Lowery
Malinda Maynor Lowery is known for her original perspective in social and political history which she approaches from a non-traditional, indigenous point of view. Lowery has a new book just out titled- THE LUMBEE INDIANS, An American Struggle.
Lowery is an associate professor of history and Director of the Center for the study of the American South at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill. She has a bachelors degree in history and literature from Harvard, a masters in documentary film production from Stanford as well as a PhD in History from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Lowery has produced and directed award-winning documentary films and videos. She co-produced and directed the full length documentary film- In the Light of Reverence about native struggles to protect sacred sites including efforts at Hopi. That film won awards at the Telleride Mountain Film Festival and the American Indian Film Festival.
Her articles have appeared in numerous academic journals.
On May 18, 2018, The New York Times published her editorial titled - "We are the original southerns". That piece is available online at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/confederate-monuments-indians-original-southerners.html
Lowery is also the Author of Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Wiliam Powers
William Powers new book, Dispatches From The Sweet Life, is an exploration into living a life in harmony. For Powers and his family, means a life far from the American consumerist dream.
Powers has worked for more than 20 years in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, and North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed a community project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a prize for environmental innovation from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
His essays, commentaries and articles have appeared in the New York Times,The Washington Post,the Atlantic and Slate. He is the author of 4 books -including New Slow City and Twelve by Twelve. Powers has worked at the World Bank and holds international relations degrees from Brown and Georgetown.
As a third-generation New Yorker, Powers is familiar with the lure of bright lights and big cities. That's why Powers spent two decades exploring the American culture of speed and its alternatives in some fifty countries around the world. Powers is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct faculty member at New York University.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Brantley Hargrove
Brantley Hargrove's new book out this year is The Man who Caught The Storm, The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samara. He has written for many publications including Wired, Popular Mechanics and Texas Monthly.
In the early 2000s, Brantley Hargrove described himself as rudderless University of North Texas undergrad not knowing what he was going to do with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.He had been on the staff of the campus newspaper. And- He had some good clips.
Eventually Hargrove landed writing stints at newspapers in Wyoming, South Florida, and Tennessee. Then Hargrove made his way back to Texas in 2013 where he reported for the Dallas Observer.
While reporting for the Dallas Observer, Hargrove came face to face with THE story of his young career… A story about Tornados and the people who spent their lives trying to be where no one else wanted to be…. right smack in the middle of the most ferocious, deadly storms on the face of the earth. The Man Who Caught The Storm puts you there too.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Katharine Gerbner
Katherine Gerbner's new book, CHRISTIAN SLAVERY Conversion and Race in the Protestant World is a masterfully thought out, meticulously researched, original take on the issue of white supremacy. Her research took her from Barbados to Germany to London to Pennsylvania.
Katherine Gerbner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota where she teaches courses on Atlantic History, History of Religions, Magic & Medicine, and The Early Modern Archive.
Gerbner has a bachelors degree from Columbia and a PhD from Harvard in History. During college, Gerbner interned at the radio show, Justice Talking which broadcasts from Philadelphia
After graduate school, Gerbner received a Fullbright Scholarship to teach and study in Germany for a year. She is fluent in German and has studied Dutch and Dutch Creole.
She joins us by phone from The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Fred Van Lente
Fred Van Lente just published his second novel- The Con Artist. The scene of the action is ComiCon San Diego, one of the massive conventions that attracts comic book aficionados, addicts and authors.
Van Lente is best known as a New York Times best-selling comics writer. He creates the text for the hard-hitting, irreverent superhero series, Archer and Armstrong. He is also the author of non-fiction comics with weightier subjects like the series, Action Philosophers.
Fred Van Lente co-wrote the graphic novel, Cowboys and Aliens, which was made into a film staring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.
Van Lente's first book, Ten Dead Comedians, was a thinly veiled show business satire.
He joins us by phone from Brooklyn, new York.
KSFR RADIO 101.1FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Bob Puglisi
BOB PUGLISI has just published his fourth book- Unassisted Living with the tagline- Never cross a mob of angry seniors.
Before becoming an author, Puglisi's career took some dramatic turns from computer programmer and technical writer for major IT corporations to actor, screenwriter and author. He also worked as part time librarian at the Old Rock Library in Crested Butte, Colorado for 15 years.
In 2000, he received a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts for his screenplay BIG WHITE BONNEVILLE. He then produced it as a short film that made the rounds of the film festival circuit. He adapted that screenplay into a novel -MIDNIGHT AUTO SUPPLY in 2016.
His next book ALMOST A WISEGUY was written with and about a friend’s life in the Mafia. That project evolved into a podcast and an audio book.
He now lives in Santa Fe NM
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE, NM
Producer and host: Abigail Adler
Guest: David Keplinger
David Keplinger is Professor of Literature in the MFA Program at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of five collections of poetry- the latest one just out this year is Another City (Milkweed, 2018).
He is the recipient of many prestigious awards. His book, The Prayers of Others, won the Colorado Book Award. His first collection, The Rose Inside, was chosen by the poet Mary Oliver for the 1999 T.S. Eliot Prize.
In 2011 he produced By and By, an album of eleven songs based on the poetry of his great-great-grandfather, a Civil War veteran.
His work has been included in numerous anthologies in the United States, as well as in China and Northern Ireland,
He has collaborated to translate works from Danish and German.
He has taught at universities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia- as well as in the summer creative writing institute at John Cabot University in Rome.
David Keplinger joins us by phone from Washington DC
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Joseph Badal
JOSEPH BADAL has published 13 books- thrillers and mysteries. He is an Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author.
His latest book, out this Month is -OBSESSED. It's the 2nd in a series he calls the Curtis Chronicles. It picks up the story where his last book, THE MOTIVE, leaves off.
Before writing thrillers, Joseph Badal spent 40 years in the world of finance, banking and mortgage lending. He has been president and CEO of several companies and he has served on corporate boards.
Before becoming a novelist, Badal wrote Business and Trade Journal articles and short stories
He was a member of the NM House of representatives - representing NE Albuquerque from 1978-1979.
Badal is a decorated army veteran who served in Vietnam…. and other exotic locations around the globe. He uses those experiences liberally in his thrillers.
He has won numerous awards, including The Tony Hillerman Prize for Best Fiction Book for Ultimate Betrayal. He has won Gold and Silver Medals from the Military Writers Society of America for his writing.
Badelle lives in NM and writes full-time.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Kari Bovee
Kari Bovee is a newly published novelist. Her debut novel, Girl With A Gun- an Annie Oakley Mystery- is just out in paperback and Kindle.
After earning a bachelors degree in English Literature at the University of San Diego, Bovee landed a job as a technical writer for a Fortune 500 Company. She started a family and continued to work part-time as a freelance writer for magazines and newsletters.
Meanwhile, at night she wrote her first two novels and acquired her first agent. Those two books never found a publisher at that time.
Fast forward to today- Bovee did not give up- she is now a published novelist and she is currently reworking her unpublished books into the first books of three separate series. Her books focus on strong, empowered women in history.
In addition to her passion for writing, Kari Bovee has a passion for horses. She is an avid horsewoman who trains her own horses and with them, has competed at the local, regional, and national levels. Bovee now lives in Corrales NM
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is a landscape historian, landscape preservationist and writer, who is also credited with saving New York City's Central Park… and that's the title of her newest book, - Saving Central Park, A History And A Memoir.
Beginning in 1980 Rogers rallied city leaders, politicians, financial backers, and citizens to resuscitate the majestic 843 acre park in the center of Manhattan. Rogers was appointed Central Park Administrator beginning 1979 and in 1980 she formed the Central Park Conservancy. It was the first public- private park partnership in the united states and became the model for parks throughout the country.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in art history. She then went on to earn a masters in city planning from Yale.
Rogers is the author of ten books including Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History, Frederick Law Olmsted's New York and Learning Las Vegas: Portrait of a Northern New Mexican Place.
Rogers was born in San Antonio, Texas, and moved permanently to New York in 1964. Rogers spends part of the year in Santa Fe, NM.
There is a plaque honoring Elizabeth Barlow Rogers in Central Park on the path leading to Summit Rock.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg is well-know writer and writing teacher and painter. Her latest book is Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home. When Natalie Goldberg's life took a devastating, unexpected turn- so, of course, did her writing. This book is about Goldberg's journey through the corridors of modern medicine, death, dying and ultimately…life.
Natalie Goldberg has published more than a dozen books including the best-seller about how to write - Writing Down the Bones.
Goldberg has been a Zen practitioner, for more than thirty years. She wholeheartedly brings the lessons of Zen Buddhism to her writing, her life and her teaching.
Goldberg is also a prolific painter. Her book Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World. She refers to painting as her second art form. Goldberg travels the world teaching and painting. Natalie Goldberg lives in Northern NM.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Tracy Fessenden
Billie Holiday… the iconic blues singer and unique blues interpreter. Much has been written about her life, her music, her addictions and her early death. Now, a new book by Tracy Fessenden - just out - traces an unexpected influence of Catholicism on her music. The title: Religion Around Billie Holiday. Tracy Fessenden is a professor of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, at Arizona State University. Fessenden earned a bachelors degree in English from Yale and then a PhD in religious studies from the University of Virginia. She began her teaching career at Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi before going on to teach at Arizona State.
Tracy Fessenden has published numerous articles and essays in noted literary, religious and academic publications including American Literary History, Religion & Politics, a special issue of Religion. She published her first book in 2007: Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
PRODUCER AND HOST: ABIGAIL ADLER
GUEST: LARRY TYE
Larry Tye is a bestselling author whose most recent book is a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, the former attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon explores RFK’s surprising involvement with Joe McCarthy and the communist-hunters of the 1950s.Tye goes on to trace Kennedy's journey to becoming a champion of racial equality and working people..
Tye is known to many as an award-winning reporter at The Boston Globe-from the mid 1980s until 2001. Before that, he worked for The Courier Journal in Lousiville and the Anniston Star in Alabama.
He had the opportunity to cover the medicine beat for the Boston Globe and went on to run the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship. The fellowship trains a dozen medical journalists a year from newspapers,radio stations, and TV outlets nationwide.
Tye's books include The Father of Spin, Riding the Rails, Satchel and Superman.
Tye- graduated from Brown University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has taught journalism at Boston University, Northeastern, and Tufts.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Mary Morris
MARY MORRIS lives in Brooklyn… however her latest novel takes place in northern New Mexico. Gateway to the Moon weaves a story through time and space… from Spain in the 15th century to 20th century New Mexico and Miguel Torres - a young man itching to leave the tiny village of Entrada .
Mary Morris has published many novels and collections of short stories as well as memoir. She has held teaching positions at Princeton, University of California at Irvine and Sarah Lawrence where she has held a tenured position since 1997.
Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels The Jazz Palace, A Mother's Love, and House Arrest. Morris's non-fiction work includes the travel memoir classic Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone.
During her writing career she has received many awards.
Mary Morris lives in Brooklyn, New York.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Craig Childs
Craig Childs walks in the footsteps of the earliest people who wandered onto this continent 20,000 years ago. He follows ancient migration routes with his whole body, mind and heart.
In this new book, ATLAS OF A LOST WORLD: TRAVELS IN ICE AGE AMERICA Childs, himself attempts- as near as possible t-o actually travel in the Ice Age.
Craig Childs has published more than a dozen books of adventure, wilderness, and science. He has won many prizes for his explorations and books.
He is contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, and Outside.
Childs has a B.A. in Journalism from CU Boulder with a minor in Women's Studies, and from Prescott College, an M.A. in Desert Studies. He is an occasional commentator for NPRs Morning Edition, he teaches writing at University of Alaska in Anchorage and at Southern New Hampshire University.
He lives off the grid in Western Colorado
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Cherie Burns
Cherie Burns picks her subjects out of pure passion. Burns is the author of four books, in addition to many articles and interviews. Her latest book, Diving For Starfish, is the story of one of the most admired and coveted pieces of fine jewelry in modern history-- the Boivin Starfish. The book is a journey through the all-but-secret world of outrageously expensive fabulous jewelry makers, merchants and their customers.
Cherie Burns is an investigative journalist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, People, Glamour, Sports Illustrated, and other publications. Burns now lives in Taos, New Mexico and Nantucket.
Her books include Searching for Beauty—The Life of Millicent Rogers - The Great Hurricane: 1938 and Step-Motherhood.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Brian Keating
Brian Keating ---PhD, astrophysicist , writer and inventor. He is an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light- more commonly known as "the origin of the universe". We are talking about the big bang… and Keating is at the forefront of that adventure.
His book, just out in paperback, is LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE A Story of Cosmology, Ambition and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor.
The book is a crash course in big bang theory, a behind-the-scenes look at the Nobel Prize and a fascinating ride on the roller coaster that is Brian Keating's life.
Keating is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) at the University of California, San Diego.
He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and he holds two US patents.
In 2007, He received an award at the White House from the hands of President George W. Bush for a telescope he invented and set up at the US South Pole Research Station known as BICEP
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman is best known for her Leaphorn and Chee detective novels which take place predominantly on the vast Navajo Nation that spans four states including New Mexiico. She walks in the moccasins of her late father, best-selling author Tony Hillerman.
Her new book is CAVE OF BONES- a decective mystery staring Bernadette Manuelito. along with Lt. Joe Leaphorn, and Jim Chee .
Anne Hillerman was deep into the writing life before she took up the pen to channel police adventures first created by her father.
She worked as the editorial page editor for both the New Mexican and the Journal North. Before that she worked as an award-winning reporter in print, , in radio and in TV.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Phill Casaus
Phill Casaus is editor-in-chief of the Santa Fe New Mexican- The capital city's daily paper. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years.
Casaus tarted as a stringer for the Bisbee Arizona Daily Review when he was in middle school, going on to get a job as a stringer in the Albuquerque Journal sports department. Casaus spent many years as a sportswriter with the Albuquerque Journal before taking over the city desk.
During his long career as a journalist, Casaus also worked at the Albuquerque Tribune- the city's afternoon paper before it closed. He was senior editor for local news forThe Rocky Mountian News in Denver.
Nine years ago, he moved back to New Mexico to take over as executive director of the Albuquerque Public Schools Education Foundation. Then in September 2017, Casaus came back to the news as editor-in-chief of the New Mexican.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Martin Puchner
MARTIN PUCHNER is the author of more than a dozen books, and anthologies and more than sixty articles and essays. His subjects range from philosophy to theater to world literature.
Which brings us to his latest book , THE WRITTEN WORLD, THE POWER OF STORIES TO SHAPE PEOPLE, HISTORY, CIVILIZATION. This book traces the technologies that have made literature possible. Going back thousands of years Puchner pursues the fascinating story of how people write, how people read, how people spread the word. And how that process not only reflects civilization, but also shapes it.
Puchner grew up in Germany, England and the US. From an early age he studied Latin, French and English. He became fascinated by the puzzle that is language- adding the study of Greek, Hebrew and Yiddish to the mix. He has taught in many countries traversing the globe from Brazil to Beirut, from China to Norway.
Puchner currentlyTeaches at Harvard- before that, Columbia University and Cornell. He joins us by phone from New York City where he is spending the year at the New York Public Library researching his next book..