Valley Free Radio » Maxine Kumin http://www.valleyfreeradio.org WXOJ-LP | 103.3 FM | Northampton, Massachusetts Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:28:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 WXOJ-LP | 103.3 FM | Northampton, Massachusetts | Community Radio Valley Free Radio clean Valley Free Radio webcom@valleyfreeradio.org webcom@valleyfreeradio.org (Valley Free Radio) 2006-2009 WXOJ-LP | 103.3 FM | Northampton, Massachusetts Valley Free Radio » Maxine Kumin http://valleyfreeradio.org/images/podcast/vfr-podcast-logo144.jpg http://www.valleyfreeradio.org Writer’s Voice 05/01/08: Nicholson Baker’s HUMAN SMOKE http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/2008/04/writers-voice-050108-nicholson-bakers-human-smoke/ http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/2008/04/writers-voice-050108-nicholson-bakers-human-smoke/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:57:57 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/?p=478 Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Nicholson Baker about his acclaimed new book, HUMAN SMOKE: The Beginnings of World War II; The End of Civilization.
In a departure from his usual genre, fiction, Baker turns his eye for telling detail to an examination of the cavalier disregard for the human consequences of war by leaders on all sides of the conflict. We hear about how Churchill’s warmongering and Roosevelt’s anti-Semitism exacerbated the war’s civilian toll. We also hear of the courage of a few who dared to speak against the headlong rush to battle.

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]]> Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Nicholson Baker about his acclaimed new book, HUMAN SMOKE: The Beginnings of World War II; The End of Civilization.
In a departure from his usual genre, fiction, Baker turns his eye for telling detail to an examination of the cavalier disregard for the human consequences of war by leaders on all sides of the conflict. We hear about how Churchill’s warmongering and Roosevelt’s anti-Semitism exacerbated the war’s civilian toll. We also hear of the courage of a few who dared to speak against the headlong rush to battle.

Listen live on Valley Free Radio on Thursday, May 1 2008 at 8:00 AM or stream/download this podcast.

Also, we air an excerpt from our 2006 interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Maxine Kumin.

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