We are being lied to
A round up on the English-language news about the Fukushima disaster and the state of our own nuclear power plants. New York Times: Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril By Norimitsu Onishi and Martin Fackler, August 8, 2011 “In interviews and public...
Identity and otherness
Coming late to this talk, by Thandie Newton, about the devastating consequences of the human scramble to create a projection of self that we can hide behind and hold onto.
Storytelling
A note from the Goddard residency about a new article on Women Doing Literary Things: "As a writer, I have always been attracted to what is hidden. I write to understand what is not understandable, what is not even acceptable, and to find a deeper truth in what has...
Thought for the Day
"In the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman, and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused...
New York in the Morning…
This morning, I discovered - surprise, surprise! - that there is very little traffic on the roads at 2:30 in the morning. That's when I was picked up for a live interview on the Lorraine show, on ITV in the UK. More traffic than expected at 4:00 am, when I was...
From Beth, in Berlin
Beth Kephart, amazing writer, sends a vision from Berlin. She writes: "A consecration. A silence. "This is the German war memorial, a mother holding her son.The ground below has the remains of a German soldier and a holocaust victim. The earth is from both a battle...
Transforming Terror
"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." I have ordered my copy of Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World, edited by Karin Lofthus Carrington and Susan Griffin, University of California Press. In their own words: "Over the last decade,...
To The Contrary
A not terribly groundbreaking debate on noncustodial motherhood begins at about 16:20 minutes into the episode, but it ends with the acknowledgment that different models of family and childcare can work! Watch May 20, 2011 on PBS. See more from To The Contrary.
Talking with Sherry Bracken
My Mother's Day interview with Sherry Bracken has been posted on The Big Island News Center. You can listen to the half hour discussion here. We talk about everything from astrophysics, to my mother, to the inspiration for my first novel to Hiroshima in the...
Reading on The Drum
I am reading from Hiroshima in the Morning on The Drum Literary Magazine, "a literary magazine for your ears," featured this week and archived forever with a lot of other great readings and interviews. Check out the magazine. It's definitely worth your time!