In Deep With Angie Coiro: Interviews

Show #129 | Guests: Rob Byrne focuses on film restoration and silent film era research. He’s currently President of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Board. Anita Mong is the Festival’s Artistic Director and a veteran film booker. | Show Summary: Anita Monga and Rob Byrne from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival discuss the power and impact of this bygone film era and why the medium is relevant for today’s audiences.

Show #128 | Guest: Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of seven acclaimed books. Kerry Donahue is Adjunct Faculty and Director, Radio Program at the Columbia Journalism School. She’s also an independent producer who specializes in program and host development with clients including PRX, PRI, and Tricycle Magazine. Her work has been heard on NPR, WNYC, “Marketplace” and WBGO. | Show Summary: Angie sits down with Samuel Freedman and Kerry Donahue whose incredible audio documentary and accompanying book Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz tells Schmalz's story on how he reported about AIDS while dying of the disease, and his impact and legacy on journalism. Jeff Schmalz was a journalistic prodigy. He was hired by The New York Times while still a college student, and he was essentially running its metropolitan coverage by his mid-20s. From his crisply pressed trousers and s

Show #127 | Guest: Peggy Orenstein was named one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” by The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012. In addition to Girls and Sex, she’s the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. You can find her on Facebook and on Twitter, @peggyorenstein. | Show Summary: Peggy Orenstein joins Angie Coiro for a discussion of her new book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. These two award-winning journalists sat down on a Monday evening at Kepler’s Books for an important conversation about gender, myths, perception and the potent subtext of sex in the world of young people growing up today.

Show #126 | Guest: Nile Southern is a Boulder based filmmaker and writer. His books beyond Yours in Haste and Adoration include Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995 (edited with Josh Alan Friedman), and The CANDY Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel, CANDY (Arcade, 2004), which won Colorado’s Book of the Year for Creative Non-Fiction. | Show Summary: Colorado based writer and filmmaker Nile Southern’s newest book is a compilation of his father, Terry Southern’s letters. The book, Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern, is a homage to the senior Southern’s love of language and storytelling. Terry was nominated for two Academy Awards - Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider - and was an influential writer known for his unique, comic voice.

Show #125 | Guest: Sarah Shourd is an author, prisoner rights advocate, Contributing Editor at Solitary Watch, and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley—currently based in Oakland, California. Sarah was held as a political hostage by the Iranian government from 2009-2010. Upon her release, Sarah worked tirelessly for the release of her fiance and friend, appearing on Oprah and meeting with key figures such as Hilary Clinton, President Obama, President Talabani, Actor Sean Penn, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Musician Cat Stevens and President Ahmadinejad himself. Sarah’s on Twitter at @SShourd, and you can read her Huffington Post blog. | Show Summary: Oakland journalist and playwright Sara Shourd survived 410 days of Iranian solitary confinement and wrote about it in Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement.

Show #124 | Guest: Described as “dazzling” by the New York Times, Makana is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, singer, composer and activist who is widely known for lending his musical talent for social change. He has been a TEDx talk presenter, and his guitar playing has been featured on three Grammy-nominated albums, including the soundtrack of the Academy-Award winning film “The Descendants”. A protégé of the Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar legends, including Bobby Moderow Jr. and the late master Uncle Sonny Chillingworth, Makana has dedicated his life to perpetuating as well as evolving the traditional Hawaiian art form. The focus of Makana’s art is to celebrate the beauty of tradition while exploring new, relevant perceptions, sounds and themes. | Show Summary: Hawaiian Musician and activist Makana has created a stir with his unofficial Bernie Sanders campaign anthem, Feel the Fire among other original, political works.

Show #123 | Guest: After graduating from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Kara Platoni wrote for the East Bay Express and taught at the ‘J School.’ She was the co-host of the self-described nerdy science show, The Field Trip Podcast and is on Twitter, @KaraPlatoni. | Show Summary: Oakland award-winning journalist and science writer Kara Platoni sits down with Angie to discuss latest developments in the science of sensory perception and her book We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time.

Show #122 | Guest: Gabriel Thompson is a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. He is the author of several books, including Working in the Shadows, and has written for Harper’s, New York, Mother Jones, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Nation. | Show Summary: Community and labor activist Fred Ross’s story remains poignant and relevant today, though he first started organizing in the 1930s. Author Gabriel Thompson joins Angie to talk about his book America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the 20th Century.

Show #121 | Guests: Edith Sheffer, Assistant Professor, Modern European History and German Studies at Stanford University, author of Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain and Charles Postel, Assistant Professor, History at San Francisco State University,author of The Populist Vision. | Show Summary: What's behind the increasing comparisons of candidate Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, one of the greatest scourges of the modern age? Shouts from within a rowdy crowd are easily dismissed. But Anne Frank's stepsister and multiple prominent international voices - including past and present presidents of Mexico, and an honored Israeli journalist - are now on record with the same warning. Angie hosts a panel to discuss and take questions from the audience.

Show #118 | Guest: American journalist, editor, and fiction writer Charlie Jane Anders discusses her latest All the Birds in the Sky. Her previous novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award in 2005. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is managing editor of the science fiction website io9. | Show Summary: The latest from award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky, is either about the end of the world, the beginning of our future, or both. The novel’s a darkly comic exploration of love, life, and the apocalypse.

Show #117 | Guest: Author Thomas W. Laqueur discusses his latest The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. He is the Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and his previous books include Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud and Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. | Show Summary: In The Work of the Dead, University of California professor and author Thomas W. Laqueur explores why cultures have never been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters--for individuals, communities, and nations.

Show #116 | Guest: Author Dan Jurafsky, Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing", and co-created with Chris Manning one of the first massively open online courses, Stanford's course in Natural Language Processing. His new trade book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" came out on September 15, 2014, and was a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award. Dan was born in New York and grew up in California. He lives with his wife Janet in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. | Show Summary: In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern

Show #115 | Guests: Phyllida Burlingame, Reproductive Justice Policy Director with the Northern California ACLU. Burlingame’s a nationally recognized expert on sex education advocacy, and she has led the ACLU-NC’s work on this issue since 2001. A summa cum laude Harvard graduate, she is the steering committee chair of Bay Area Communities for Health Education and a member of California’s Adolescent Sexual Health Working Group and the Fresno Regional Foundation’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention committee. David DeCosse is Director of Campus Ethics Programs, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and editor of a new book from Orbis called Conscience and Catholicism: Rights, Responsibilities, and Institutional Responses where leading ethicists and theologians address “conscience,” a term with loaded meaning and controversy in the Catholic Church around issues like political participation, human sexuality, war and institutional violence, and theological dissent. | Show Summary: This month, a Calif

Show #114 | Guest: Greg Cope White is a television comedy writer. He’s written for Norman Lear | Show Summary: In this land before Gay Pride became almost a national holiday, can a flighty, 112-pound, effeminate Texan transform into one of the few, the proud, the Marines? The Pink Marine: One Boy’s Journey Through Boot Camp to Manhood is the story – full of hilarity and heartbreak – of how a teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance and sexuality finds self-worth in Marine Corps boot camp.

Show #113 | Guests: Bea Johnson is the author of Zero Waste Home, and the blog of the same name. She endorses living simply and with minimal waste through the 5R’s: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot. Grand Prize winner of The Green Awards, she speaks at universities, corporate events and conferences internationally, and opens her home to educational tours and the media. The New York Times dubbed Johnson “The Priestess of Waste-Free Living.” She is a French native who lives in Mill Valley, CA. Jo Zientek is Deputy Director of the Environmental Services Department at the City of San Jose. She’s provided strategic leadership for San Jose environmental utility services and programs and played a key role in developing the City’s Green Vision, adopted by City Council in October 2007 and comprised of ten aggressive goals related to jobs, energy, water, waste, trees, and transportation. Jo serves on the steering committee to implement these goals by 2022. Under her tenure, San Jose won the 2013 and 2009 Governo

Show #112 | Guest: Harvey Schwartz, curator of the Oral History Collection, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Library, San Francisco. | Show Summary: Moving beyond familiar accounts of politics, celebrity engineers, and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Worker’s Oral History by Harvey Schwartz gives the voices of the workers themselves center stage. The survivors vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression.

Show #112 | Guests: Julie Lythcott-Haims, Frank Joyce, Judy Gumbo, Dave Malloy, David Lutkin | Show Summary: Some news! KALW-FM in San Francisco has added In Deep to its lineup, broadcasting Tuesday nights at 9PM. For our first show, January 5, 2015, we put together a one-hour “best of” retrospective with highlights from interviews with Julie Lythcott-Haims, Frank Joyce and Judy Gumbo, Dave Malloy, and David Lutkin. 2015 was a great year for us, with many fascinating guests. We hope you enjoy this sample of our 2015 shows.

Show #111, Hour 2 | Guest: Rick Moody is a contemporary renaissance man. His novels include Garden State, The Ice Storm (adapted for film, directed by Ang Lee), Purple America, The Diviners, The Four Fingers of Death, and his latest, Hotels of North America. Moody’s radio pieces have appeared on The Next Big Thing, Re:Sound, Weekend America, Morning Edition, and at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. His album Rick Moody and One Ring Zero was released in 2004, and The Wingdale Community Singers, in which he plays and write lyrics, have released two albums. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the Creative Writing program at NYU. | Show Summary: Journalist, musician, self-proclaimed Life Coach, and novelist Rick Moody explores today’s ‘reviewer’ culture with a quirky, unreliable protagonist in latest novel, Hotels of North America.

Show #111, Hour 1 | Guest: Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New Yorker, and many other publications. His writing on science, culture, and literature has been collected in a number of major anthologies including The Best American Science Writing of the Year and The Best Business Stories of the Year. Silberman’s Twitter account @stevesilberman made Time magazine’s list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011. Silberman also won a gold record from the Recording Industry Association of America for co-producing the Grateful Dead’s career-spanning box set So Many Roads (1965-1995), which was Rolling Stone’s box set of the year. | Show Summary: Award winning science writer Steve Silberman turned his incredibly successful TED talk “The Forgotten History of Autism” into the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.

Show #110, Hour 2 | Guest: Steven Hill is a writer, lecturer and political professional based in the United States with two decades of experience in politics. He currently is a Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation. Mr. Hill is a frequent speaker at academic, government, NGO and business events, speaking on a wide range of topics related to politics, economics, climate change, global complexity, and future trends. Previous books include Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy: A More Perfect Union, 2012 Election Edition, and Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics. | Show Summary: Author Steven Hill dissects today’s capitalism using Uber, AirBNB, and TaskRabbit, among others, in his new book Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism are Screwing American Workers.