Leslie Dunton-Downer, author of The English is Coming!: How One Language is Sweeping the World, joins us again to explore some of the words and phrases from other languages picked up by the world's current lingua franca.
, Essential Shakespeare Handbook
Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post.com and the author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream, discusses whether or not President Obama has betrayed his base. Then, later in the show, Dr. Cornel West, University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University; co-host of Smiley & West; and author of Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir, weighs in on the topic. Jami Floyd, broadcast journalist, legal analyst for cable and network news, and blogger at It's A Free Country, chimes in with her post on whether Obama abandoned his base.
Stephen Sondheim, whose career has spanned more than half a century, discusses his process of writing lyrics, his relationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and his collaborations with talents such as Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, Angela Lansbury, Harold Prince and others. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, includes Sondheim’s collected his lyrics for the first time, giving readers a rare personal look into his life and his remarkable productions.
There’s a funny, revealing moment in Alain de Botton’s new book, “A Week at the Airport,” when he discovers that the largest bookstore at Heathrow Airport, in London, does not stock his books. He decides to have a conversation with Manishankar, the shop’s manager, about what else might be available. “I explained,” Mr. de Botton writes, “that I was looking for the sort of books in which a genial voice expresses emotions that the reader has long felt but never before really understood; those that convey the secret, everyday things that society at large prefers to leave unsaid; those that make one feel somehow less alone and strange.”
, The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage)
Austan Goolsbee Episode #15134 Austan Goolsbee discusses the difficulties in lowering the unemployment rate and getting credit to small businesses. (04:45) Tags: Austan Goolsbee, interviews, on location, Midterm Teapartyganza, Washington DC, Obama administration, economy, unemployment, recession, business, stimulus package, bailouts Aired: 10/25/10Viewed: 45,545View the episode of the show, here. See also: Investment subsidies and wages in capital goods industries: to the workers go the spoils?: An article from: National Tax Journal
, Charlie Rose - Austan Goolsbee / Federal Reserve (August 14, 2008)
, Barack Obama | U.S. President Blog
, Charlie Rose - Larry Summers / The Economy (February 18, 2009)
William Upski Wimsatt, hip hop and graffiti writer, founder of the League of Young Voters and the author of Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement, talks about the state of (no longer so) young radical Americans.
, No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing, and Why Philanthropy ... the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century!
, How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power
Franco's first collection of short stories has received mixed reviews. But critics have only rarely been kind to literary thespians POSTED ON OCTOBER 25, 2010, AT 9:00 AM Critic Michael Lindgren calls Franco's first novel "amateurish" but adds the collection of stories has a "well-balanced symmetry." There is a new writer in Hollywood — actor James Franco, star of Spiderman and Pineapple Express, published his first book of short stories last week. His collection, Palo Alto, has received decidedly mixed reviews — The Washington Post's Michael Lindgren calls it "a thin, hackneyed affair" — but Franco might find comfort in knowing that critics have sharpened their knives for a long list of actors who have tried their hands at writing literary fiction. Here are seven thespian authors who got the critics talking, in ways both bad and good
October 25, 2010 - Nicholas Negroponte Views: 27,377 Aired: 10/25/10 Episode 06134 Stephen celebrates his fifth anniversary, and Nicholas Negroponte gives laptops to poor children.
, Charlie Rose with James Kelly; Tommy Lee Jones; Nicholas Negroponte (December 16, 2005)
The U.S. military has used video games to help train their personnel — and to help boost recruiting. Now the experiences of Navy corpsmen have spawned a new graphic novel, published by the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine. As the KPBS blog Home Post reports, The Docs was born out of a desire to prepare new corpsmen for the mental stress of combat. And that stress is substantial. Corpsmen are often called on both to fight and to try to save the lives of wounded Marines. As Jamie Reno of KPBS writes, surveys of U.S. combat personnel show that "at the height of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007, corpsmen were exposed to more intense combat than any other Navy component."
"This is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Recount" by Jay Weiner (University of Minnesota Press, $24.95). A blow-by-blow account of the eight-month recount in Minnesota that ultimately led to Al Franken's election to the U.S. Senate. Kevin J. Hamilton, a Seattle lawyer who reviews books for The Seattle Times, was a key member of Franken's legal team and is prominently featured in the book.
