Posts tagged “interviews”
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Jay Leno’s Book Club on Racing While Black
June 3, 2010
From Jay Leno’s Garage, here’s Leno and Leonard Miller talking about Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock-Car Team Made Its Mark On NASCAR. Take a look!
Tags: interviews, jay leno, leonard miller, race, racing while black, sports, videos
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China Daily on Leonard Miller and Racing While Black
June 3, 2010
Leonard Miller, a pilot for United Airlines, has a life worth knowing about. Miller is the author of Racing While Black, a book chronicling his experience owning the first, and so far only, NASCAR team run by African Americans.
… “We came out of nowhere,” Miller said. “And it looked like we were taking away their thunder and their sport. Everywhere we went, they viewed it as, ‘Here we go again, if we let African Americans get involved in this, the sport will get away from us, like what happened with golf and tennis.’ It upset a lot of people.” — China Daily
Tags: articles, china daily, interviews, leonard t miller, race, racing while black, sports
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Loretta Napoleoni at Google UK
June 2, 2010
In May 2010, Loretta Napoleoni, author of Terrorism and the Economy, appeared at Google UK for an hour-long presentation on the financing of terror networks around the world. Settle in and take a look below!
Tags: current events, economics, google, interviews, loretta napoleoni, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy, united kingdom
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Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon interviewed by the Brooklyn Rail
May 21, 2010
Newly posted on ArtonAir.org, here’s Phong Bui’s 2009 interview with Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon, as described thus:
Phong Bui speaks with Dan Simon, the publisher of Seven Stories Press and a Rail managing and advisory board member. Simon discusses, through wanton analogies wild and exacting, the multiple trapeze acts that the publisher must perform, the need for a greater place for contemporary works in translation, the background behind Kurt Vonnegut’s remarkable meditative text A Man without a Country and other works from the tremendous output of Simon’s publishing house. Acts of political and literary bravery have defined Simon’s career, as is made plainly evident here (67 minutes).Click here to listen in either m3u format, or with RealPlayer.
Tags: audio, brooklyn rail, Dan Simon, interviews, man without a country
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Barry Gifford on the Bat Segundo Show
May 17, 2010
BARRY GIFFORD: I mean, in one sense, yes, we’re all subject to all of the things that have come before, to our upbringing, and to all these things that I mentioned. The key is: How do you deal with them? How do you assert yourself? How do you retain some semblance of control over your own life?
… That’s what Perdita Durango is mainly about. Now nobody had a worse childhood than Perdita Durango. She’s definitely — if anybody could be called a victimized person. It laid out her life for her. And what does she try to do? She’s trying to control her own existence. She’s fighting for her life. And that’s the theme that I always felt with Perdita. I love Perdita. I mean, she’s crazy and she’s dangerous. But I love her.
Tags: barry gifford, bat segundo, ed champion, fiction, interviews, lee ranaldo, powerhouse arena, sailor & lula
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Leonard Miller on the Tavis Smiley Show
May 17, 2010
In February, Leonard T. Miller, author with Andrew Simon of Racing While Black, appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show. Click here to listen!
Tags: andrew simon, interviews, leonard t miller, race, racing while black, sports, tavis smiley
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Barry Gifford interview in the Chicagoist
April 27, 2010
CHICAGOIST: First of all, what was it like to see all of your novels in the same place, in the same book together?
GIFFORD: Well, somebody called it a milestone when they saw it. And I said, “It’s either that, or a headstone.” It’s the way I always wanted it, because really it’s all one long novel… That’s really the form I always envisioned it being in, so finally it’s done. I’m really happy. — from the Chicagoist interview with Barry Gifford
Tags: articles, barry gifford, chicagoist, fiction, interviews, sailor & lula
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BBC Interview with Loretta Napoleoni
April 21, 2010
Check out this BBC interview with Loretta Napoleoni, in which, in response to a question, Loretta explains the connection between terrorism and the global economy in under one minute. Then, check out Terrorism and the Economy, now available directly from our website and very soon in bookstores everywhere.
Tags: bbc, current events, economics, interviews, loretta napoleoni, terrorism, terrorism and the economy
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Paul Verhoeven in the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy”
April 14, 2010
The moderator of the discussion [at the IFC in New York City on April 8], Slate contributor Eric Hynes, noted that the filmmaker’s dour explanation of Jesus’s world “sounds just like a Paul Verhoeven movie.”
The response was immediate. “Yeah,” Verhoeven said, “but I didn’t invent it this time.”
— From the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy” blogTags: articles, interviews, jesus of nazareth, paul verhoeven, politics, religion, speakeasy, wall street journal
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Paul Verhoeven interview with MTV
April 13, 2010
For your approval, here’s Paul Verhoeven’s filmed interview with Josh Horowitz at MTV.com about Jesus of Nazareth and how it fits with other recent treatments of one of the most sacred stories in Western civilization. Take a look below!
Tags: interviews, jesus, jesus of nazareth, mtv, paul verhoeven, religion
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Laura Eldridge interview on the anniversary of the Pill
April 6, 2010
How did you come to write a book framed by an alternative viewpoint on the Pill?
When I started working with Barbara Seaman, at the end of 1999 and just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Pill, it was actually a shock to me to realize as a feminist she had been very critical of the Pill. I thought of myself as an up and coming young feminist and bought into the popular idea that acceptance of the Pill was an integral part of second wave feminism and as such allowed for many of the gains women have made. Working with Barbara I got to understand how criticism of the Pill was part of the feminist movement, and that this history has been lost over time. With the 50th anniversary of the Pill coming up, all the articles are very glowing and suggest the Pill made feminism possible, but I know it is much more complicated than that. I thought it was the right time to present a reassessment of our birth control choices, to encourage women to broaden the contraceptive conversation. —Laura Eldridge, to Bitch magazine
Tags: birth control, bitch, In Our Control, interviews, Laura Eldridge, women's health, women's issues
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Paul Verhoeven on Jesus of Nazareth
April 1, 2010
… The book is a beginner’s guide to the Gospels. It also has your personal theory of Jesus as a cross between Che Guevara and Bertolt Brecht.I would say the parallel is slightly there with Che Guevara, but of course Che Guevara’s ethics are different than Jesus’. And if I compare him with Brecht, that is only in the way Brecht has tried in his work to keep distance, to avoid the identification that happens in American movies, where for the pleasure of the audience you can identify with the hero or the heroine. And I think the parables Jesus invented and spoke follow a little bit more Brecht than, say, Hitchcock. — Paul Verhoeven, to the Willamette Week
Tags: film, interviews, jesus of nazareth, paul verhoeven, religion, willamette week
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The Other Side of Silence: On W.G. Sebald, by Evelyn Toynton
March 26, 2010
Questioned by his interviewers about the Nazi era, [Sebald] describes the “conspiracy of silence” that prevailed while he was growing up after the war; he is convinced that his parents, who had been supporters of Hitler, never spoke about what had happened even when they were alone. “But then pressure eventually saw to it that in schools the subject would be raised,” he tells the writer Joseph Cuomo. “It was usually done in the form of documentary films which were shown to us without comment. So, you know, it was a sunny June afternoon, and you would see one of those liberation of Dachau or Belsen films, and then you would go and play football.”
He talks, too, about his discomfort, later on, as a student at Freiburg University — a sense of some falseness he could not exactly pin down. Eventually, he realized that all his professors had received their doctorates in the 1930s and early ’40s; he even hunted up their dissertations: “If you . . . looked at what their Ph.D.’s were about, your hair stood on end.” When Wachtel asks him about his feelings for Germany, Sebald begins, “Well, I know it’s my country,” and winds up by saying, “in a sense it’s not my country. But because of its peculiar history and the bad dive that history took in this century . . . because of that I feel you can’t simply abdicate and say, well, it’s nothing to do with me. I have inherited that backpack and I have to carry it whether I like it or not.”
— Evelyn Toynton, from her 2008 Harper’s review of The Emergence of MemoryTags: emergence of memory, evelyn toynton, fiction, harper's, interviews, lynne sharon schwarz, powell's, w.g. sebald
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TheQueerist interviews Sabrina Chapadjiev
March 10, 2010
Courtney Gillette: … Is there a queer sensibility to your music/your performances? How would you describe it?
Sabrina Chapadjiev: Well, all of the songs off the album are about exes, which have been women, so in that sense, yes, there is a queer sensibility there. Although it sort of surprised me that some people haven’t gotten that [my songs are queer]. I play with one particular band quite a bit—they open up for me and I open up for them. The main singer knows I’m queer, and finally he was like, “But you don’t say that in your songs.”
Now, there are songs where I straight up am talking about a woman— I mean, I couldn’t get more specific in “Idiom.” But then there are songs like “Little White House,” where I have the lyric:
A kid on the way
due sometime in May
we’ll dance in the kitchen while the radio plays
You’ll bring home the bacon
I’ll try a new recipe
In our little white house with a keyI was like, “Oh. . . I guess I could see why you were confused. . . but I was still talking about a girl there. I just like butch girls. And I like to cook.” He was like, “Oh.”
Tags: interviews, lgbt, live through this, sabrina chapadjiev, thequeerist
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Ralph Nader at Montgomery College: Can Someone Super-Rich Save Us?
March 9, 2010
From February 2010, here’s Ralph Nader at Montgomery College speaking about his first work of fiction, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, about the future of activism, and about the power of imagination.
Tags: current events, fiction, interviews, montgomery college, only the super-rich can save us, q&a, ralph nader
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David Swanson at Brave New Conversations
February 5, 2010
Check out this teaser from Daybreak author David Swanson’s long interview and discussion at Brave New Conversations. To see the whole thing, sign up at BNC here.
Tags: brave new conversations, david swanson, daybreak, interviews, politics/government, videos
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Paul Verhoeven on Jesus of Nazareth
February 4, 2010
From an interview at Cinema-Scope with Robert Koehler, from just after the 2006 release of Paul Verhoeven’s film The Black Book:
… You had this strange encounter with Pentecostal Christianity. How did that happen, and how did your reaction to that experience prompt your concern for reality and even hyper-reality?
My then-future wife Martine got pregnant in 1966, and we didn’t want a child at the time. I was just starting my film career, and the prospect of an unplanned child might force me to abandon film at least temporarily. To a large degree, it was disturbing: during that period, I had a sense that I was losing my mind. I wouldn’t say a psychosis, but it felt close to that. My response was to become a member of a Pentecostal church, for a month. It was an existential need. This wasn’t common in Holland in the ‘60s… This encounter with spiritual, mystical Christianity had an enormous impact on me.
Tags: biography, film, interviews, jesus of nazareth, paul verhoeven, religion
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Anarchist Writers interview with Bakunin author Mark Leier
December 29, 2009
What would you say Bakunin has to offer today’s radicals?
First, he offers some hope, hope in the importance of struggle. This was an activist who fought on the losing side all of his life, yet did not lose his passionate hope, his understanding, that the struggle itself was meaningful, for without it, the world would certainly get worse. While some seem him as a quixotic figure, I see him as one who realistically assessed the opportunities for success and failure and decided to fight for an ideal even when he thought there was no immediate chance of victory.
Second, he offers a clear appraisal of what the radicals’ targets should be. After all, capitalism and the state have not changed much since his time; Bakunin would recognize much in the 21st century. He wrote powerful critiques of capital and the state that still serve as useful starting points for understanding the world, and he did so in accessible, evocative language.
Third, while there is a tendency to draw a dividing line between “classical anarchism” and contemporary anarchism and post-anarchism, a careful reading of Bakunin suggests that the “classical anarchists” wrestled with many of the same problems of goals, strategy, and tactics that anarchists face today. In fact, I believe that Bakunin offers a useful critique of today’s post-anarchism, for the ideas of postmodernism that inform post-anarchism are not as new as its advocates suggest. That is, Bakunin rejected the idealist thought of his day to become a materialist and a realist, and I believe materialism and realism offer a stronger foundation for criticism than idealism and some variants of post-modernism.
Tags: anarchist writers, bakunin, biography, interviews, mark leier
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Howard Zinn on Bill Moyers Journal
December 11, 2009
Howard Zinn will appear on Bill Moyers Journal Friday night to talk about his new film The People Speak, the historical sources that inspired it, and more. Friday, December 11 at 9pm ET; check local listings here.
Tags: bill moyers, howard zinn, interviews, pbs, television, voices of a people's history
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Dreaming Up America: A Conversation With Russell Banks and Dan Simon
December 10, 2009
In honor of the new paperback release of Dreaming Up America, Russell Banks’s first work of nonfiction, we present, once again, this 2008 audio interview between Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon and author Russell Banks, on the subject of storytelling, on the activist mentality, and the invention and mythology of America.
Tags: Dan Simon, dreaming up america, history, interviews, russell banks, videos
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Stephanie McMillan interviewed at Scott Nickel’s blog
November 30, 2009
Stephanie McMillan: [As the World Burns is] a response to the lie that individual lifestyle changes are the solution to ecocide. For example, Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth lays out the problem very well, but at the end is the usual tired “what you can do” list that everyone pushes because they don’t impinge too much on our “non-negotiable way of life.” These lists always include things like taking shorter showers and changing light bulbs to more energy-efficient ones, and never include things like stopping industrial production and overthrowing the system that puts profit ahead of a living world.
Tags: as the world burns, comics, derrick jensen, environment, interviews, scott nickel, stephanie mcmillan
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Beverly Gologorsky interviewed at AlterNet
November 20, 2009
From Beverly Gologorsky’s interview with Andy Kroll of AlterNet, on the subject of Things We Do To Make It Home:
Gologorsky: If you take a look at some of the characters in my book like [veterans] Frankie or Rod, they’re not monsters. I like my characters; I like the men. I think they have tremendous potential that was totally messed up by the war. So I had to think this part through. How can some of these men, who’ve done some horrible things, come home and these women love them? I had to really think through what made these men so damaged. And that’s when I came up with that understanding, that they had to kill without believing anymore that they were killing for any cause.
Tags: alternet, beverly gologorsky, fiction, interviews, things we do to make it home
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Meri Nana-Ama Danquah on WAMU 88.5 FM
November 19, 2009
On November 18, Meri Danquah, editor of The Black Body, talked to the audience of the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU 88.5 FM about the collection and about race in America. Click here to listen!
Tags: black body, interviews, meri danquah, race, radio, wamu 88.5 fm
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Gary Webb tribute/interview on YouTube
November 18, 2009
Before his untimely death in 2004, Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance and the upcoming The Killing Game (edited by Eric Webb), was one of America’s most uncompromising investigative journalists. See the YouTube tribute to him by the Guerilla News Network below.
Tags: dark alliance, eric webb, gary webb, guerilla news network, interviews, the killing game, videos
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Ralph Nader interviewed in the Miami Herald
November 17, 2009
On Saturday, November 14, an interview with Ralph Nader appeared in the Miami Herald. Among the topics covered were Nader’s first work of fiction, what Nader feels his legacy in America will one day be, and an answer to the question begged by the book’s title:
Herald: Can America save itself without the super-rich, in other words, without the kind of power money buys in our society?
Nader: … What [the super-rich] provide are resources, a catalyst and a shoehorn and the ability to provide opportunities for tens of thousands of people to improve their country. You can’t have organizers unless they can feed themselves; you can’t have them go around the country without transportation, communication, housing, etc. What the super-rich in this book do is fill that last equation which is money and media.
Tags: fiction, interviews, miami herald, only the super-rich can save us, ralph nader
“interviews” Posts
- Jun 3, Jay Leno’s Book Club on Racing While Black
- Jun 3, China Daily on Leonard Miller and Racing While Black
- Jun 2, Loretta Napoleoni at Google UK
- May 21, Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon interviewed by the Brooklyn Rail
- May 17, Leonard Miller on the Tavis Smiley Show
- Apr 21, BBC Interview with Loretta Napoleoni
- Apr 14, Paul Verhoeven in the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy”
- Apr 13, Paul Verhoeven interview with MTV
- Apr 6, Laura Eldridge interview on the anniversary of the Pill
- Apr 1, Paul Verhoeven on Jesus of Nazareth
- Mar 26, The Other Side of Silence: On W.G. Sebald, by Evelyn Toynton
- Mar 10, TheQueerist interviews Sabrina Chapadjiev
- Mar 9, Ralph Nader at Montgomery College: Can Someone Super-Rich Save Us?
- Feb 5, David Swanson at Brave New Conversations
- Feb 4, Paul Verhoeven on Jesus of Nazareth
- Dec 29, Anarchist Writers interview with Bakunin author Mark Leier
- Dec 11, Howard Zinn on Bill Moyers Journal
- Dec 10, Dreaming Up America: A Conversation With Russell Banks and Dan Simon
- Nov 30, Stephanie McMillan interviewed at Scott Nickel’s blog
- Nov 20, Beverly Gologorsky interviewed at AlterNet
- Nov 19, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah on WAMU 88.5 FM
- Nov 18, Gary Webb tribute/interview on YouTube
- Nov 17, Ralph Nader interviewed in the Miami Herald
