Apr 21, 2011 | Events, Hiroshima in the Morning, Motherhood in the Media, The Writing Life
I was interviewed by Lara Dunning for her blog recently. My responses are up now. She asked me a question about the role of visual media (TV and internet) on triggering lost or pushed aside memories within the hibakusha, a question no one has ever asked before. Here is my answer. You can read the rest of the conversation on her blog.
“Interesting question! Visual media, and especially the sound that comes with it, is absolutely in-your-face. You can’t put up a nice, safe emotional wall between you and what you are seeing. With words, you can. You can put down the book, but you can also engage your brain to accept the story in a more distant way. And of course, the writer is also making decisions about how to tell the story, so the raw material is already being shaped. But image, and sound, go directly into your brain and your emotions before your mind can protect you. I remember, I think it was a Michael Moore documentary, a black screen where you couldn’t see but could only hear the sound of the 9/11 attacks. That was really powerful.”
Apr 21, 2011 | Events, Hiroshima in the Morning, Motherhood in the Media
Parenting.com asked me to write about the reaction to my motherhood. You can read the whole essay here. Here is a sample:
“What is a woman’s place? Why are we so eager to judge mothers, and ourselves, based on a belief that self-sacrifice equals love? Why is the well-being of children paramount, while the well-being of the mother is not important at all?”
Apr 6, 2011 | Events, Hiroshima in the Morning, Motherhood in the Media
Here’s a clip from yesterday’s radio interview, which was a wonderful, in-depth hour conversation. (This is just a seven minute section.)
“Oprah Radio host Dr. Laura Berman talks with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning, about her unconventional mothering style. Plus, they discuss how modern women are redefining their roles as mothers.”
Listen here.
Mar 23, 2011 | Events, Hiroshima in the Morning, Motherhood in the Media, Our Nuclear Age
For anyone who missed the Heart of a Woman radio show and couldn’t get it through the link I posted before, here is a better link.
It’s an hour long discussion of everything which some people have been wishing for with the narrow focus on motherhood issues in some of the recent press.
Mar 7, 2011 | Events, Hiroshima in the Morning, Motherhood in the Media
It was a pleasure to talk about motherhood, care-taking and women’s choices on Gayle King’s show today on OWN radio. We didn’t stop chatting for a moment, even through the commercials!
Feb 24, 2011 | Events, Hiroshima in the Morning
A panel discussion and a reading before the awards ceremony. Here are the details. All open to the public.
NBCC Finalists in Conversation at The Graduate Center
March 08, 2011 7:00 pm
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY Fifth Avenue
between 34th and 35th New York, NY
NBCC biography and autobiography finalists in conversation with biography chair Eric Banks and autobiography co chair Rigoberto Gonzalez. With biography finalists Sarah Bakewell and Yunte Huang, autobiography finalists Patti Smith, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, and others. Hosted by Brenda Wineapple.
National Book Critics Circle Awards: Finalists Reading, 6:00 PM
March 09, 2011 6:00 pm
The New School 66 West 12th St New York, NY
