In Deep With Angie Coiro: Interviews

Show #110, Hour 1 | Guest: Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature. Her new book, The Gay Revolution, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Among her many honors are six Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association Awards, and several lifetime achievement awards for scholarship, including Yale University's James Brudner Award, the Monette/Horwitz Award, the Publishing Triangle Award, the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Culture Hero Award, and the American Association of University Women's Distinguished Senior Scholar Award. | Show Summary: Author Lillian Faderman documents the history of LGBT Community efforts to build positive public opinion in The Gay Revolution: They Story of the Struggle.

Show #109, Hour 2 | Guest: Terry Masear is a Los Angeles based hummingbird rehabilitation specialist who tells tales of amazing rescues and the many glorious birds she’s met. Masear knows first hand people go to great lengths to save birds: they’ll jump into swimming pools fully clothed, face down rottweilers and dodge cars to rescue a hummingbird they think is in peril. | Show Summary: Hummingbird rehabber, teacher, and writer Terry Masear shares her passion for the magical, mythical hummingbird and her efforts to rescue over 1000 a year in discussing her book, Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood.

Show #109, Hour 1 | Guest: Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, speaker and teacher. His work is known for challenging preconceptions and confronting readers with the offenses of everyday life. He writes and thinks about the effects of mass media, pop culture and consumer technology on individual life and society. He is the author of books of nonfiction and fiction, most recently the collection of short stories Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened (City Lights Books) and the nonfiction books Trees On Mars: Our Obsession with the Future (Seven Stories Press) and The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (City Lights Books). Niedzviecki is the current fiction editor and the founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. | Show Summary: Author and futurist Hal Niedzviecki discusses today’s obsession with getting to the future first and challenges it presents today’s culture and society.

Show #108, Hour 2 | Guest: Dave Malloy is a composer / writer / performer / sound designer who describes his musical Ghost Quartet as “a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey.” Malloy’s written the music for eleven musicals, including award winning Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on War and Peace, Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise,” Preludes, a musical fantasia about Rachmaninoff and hypnosis, and Don’t Stop Me, a dance-a-thon to the death musical for teenagers, among several others. | Show Summary: A synthesis of performance, music, and spooky things: Ghost Quartet.

Show #108, Hour 1 | Guest: Joshua Gamson is an award-winning author of four books: Modern Families (New York University, 2015), Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (California, 1994); Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows, and Sexual Nonconformity (Chicago, 1998). Gamson’s work has been published in magazines such as “The New York Times Magazine” and “The American Prospect.” Gamson is a professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco, where he moved in 2002 after nine years on faculty at Yale University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow (2009-10) and is a 2015-16 Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | Show Summary: Angie interviews author and professor Joshua Gamson on his latest book, Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys Through Kinship.

Show #107, Hour 2 | Guests: Director/Producers Abby Ginzberg, Vanessa Warheit, Dyanna Taylor, and Director Catherine Wigginton Greene. | Show Summary: The 2015 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) is made up of documentary films dealing with key global issues. This year’s theme RUNNING OUT OF TIME continues the ongoing celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and focuses on time-sensitive aspects of the Millennium Development Goals. Angie interviews four filmmakers:

Show #107, Hour 1 | Guests: Frank Joyce is a lifelong political activist, heads the board of a media production nonprofit supporting the anti-hate movement Not In Our Town (NIOT). For many years he has been on the board of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR). Judy Gumbo was an original Yippie. She is the author of Yippie Girl™, a memoir in progress about love and conflict among the Yippies and other romantic revolutionaries of the late 1960s. Judy co-authored The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade (1984). In her later life, Judy was an award winning fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. Judy is the widow both of Yippie founder Stew Albert and of David Dobkin, a founder of Berkeley Cohousing. | Show Summary: Amidst the Vietnam War’s destruction of life, land, and property a handful attempted to stop the mayhem through people to people peace talks. Their efforts were chronicled in The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.

Show #106, Hour 2 | Guests: Comedian Will Durst is a 5 time Emmy nominee; has been fired by PBS three times; told jokes in 14 countries; racked up 7 nominations for Stand-Up of the Year; and his 800+ television appearances include Letterman, HBO, Showtime, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, the BBC and many more. The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run of his one man show: “The All American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing,” The All American Sport of Bi-Partisan Bashing was subsequently turned into a book of the same name by Ulysses Press. Comedian Johnny Steele began performing comedy in 1984 after quitting graduate school in a move his parents named: Operation $40K Down The Drain. But Johnny quickly got the hang of the craft and was soon performing – and drinking for free! – at the nation’s top clubs. In 1997 Johnny left the comedy scene to host San Francisco’s Live 105 Morning Radio Show. Guests ranged from Carol O’Conner to David Bowie to city supervisors. In 1999 Johnny’s career took another turn when he became

Show #106, Hour 1 | Guests: Bob Hoffman is the author of Marketers Are From Mars, Consumers Are From New Jersey, former head of two advertising agencies, and writer of the industry blog, The Ad Contrarian which was named one of the world’s most influential advertising and marketing blogs by Business Insider. In 2012 Bob was selected Ad Person of the Year by the S.F. Advertising Club Noah Swartz is a Staff Technologist on the Tech Projects team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He works on the various software the EFF produces and maintains, including but not limited to Privacy Badger. Before joining EFF Noah was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab as well as a technomancer and free software/culture advocate. Sandy Pelland is the founder of lifestyle destination website MomLifeTV and member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Her site’s mission: Being a Mom is one of the most rewarding experiences. But, parenting isn’t always easy. Sometimes you just need help. At MomLifeTV, we’ve assembled t

Show #105, Hour 2 | Guest: Frances Dinkelspiel is is an award-winning author and journalist. The San Francisco Chronicle and the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association both named it a Best Book of the Year. Towers of Gold was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Frances started her reporting career at the Syracuse Newspapers in upstate New York and later moved to the San Jose Mercury News. | Show Summary: Author Frances Dinkelspiel discusses her personal connection to California’s wine industry, and the shocking case of arson that ruined lives, businesses, and cost millions.

Show #105, Hour 1 | Guest: Mary Beth Wilhelm is currently a Civil Servant in the Planetary Science Branch at NASA Ames Research Center, a PhD Candidate at Georgia Tech and am a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. | Show Summary: The impact of the discovery of water on Mars may not be known for decades, but astrobiologist Mary Beth Wilhelm has been interested in Mars since her teens. She’s the co-author of the report confirming water’s presence on the Red Planet.

Show #104, Hour 2 | Guest: Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books, including the bestsellers The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books. | Show Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs, Girl Waits With Gun.

Show #104, Hour 1 | Guest: Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and bestselling author who writes about war, weapons, U.S. national security and government secrecy. Her previous non-fiction bestsellers, Area 51 and Operation PAPERCLIP, have both been optioned for television series. | Show Summary: The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department’s most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos in The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency.

Show #103, Hour 2 | Guest: J. Kenji López-Alt is the managing culinary director of Serious Eats, author of the James Beard Award-nominated column The Food Lab and a columnist for Cooking Light. He lives in San Mateo, California with his wife Adriana and two dogs, Jamón and Shabu. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science is nearly 1,000 pages and has over 300 foolproof recipes. It’s a grand tour of the science of cooking explored through popular American dishes, illustrated in full color with thousands of photographs, charts, graphs, and do-at-home experiments. | Show Summary: Chef, writer, and kitchen scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt dispels traditional kitchen cooking myths while discussing his new book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science.

Show #102, Hour 2 | Guest host Ben Hess interviews Mark Tuschman. Mark Tuschman has been a freelance photographer for over 35 years. He has devoted much of the past decade to documenting global health challenges and women’s human rights issues, in collaboration with UN agencies, socially conscious corporations, foundations, and NGOs. His work has been featured at many international events, including at the Women Deliver Conference in 2013, and at the Carter Center’s Human Rights Defenders Forum in 2015. The Global Health Council named Mark Photographer of the Year in 2010, and his images won the Grand Prize in a worldwide photo competition sponsored by the Social Documentary Network and Management Sciences for Health. Mark lives with his wife, Jana, in Menlo Park, California. | Show Summary: Commercial photographer Mark Tuschman has traveled around the world photographing and documenting women, girls, and families for Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge.

Show #102, Hour 1 | Guest host Ben Hess interviews Jerry Kaplan. Jerry Kaplan is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, author, and futurist. Kaplan may be best know for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry as founder of GO Corporation in 1987. Two decades before the iPad, Kaplan foresaw that computers could take a different form than the then-ubiquitous desktop PCs and he envisioned a new kind of computer that would be used like a ‘tablet of paper’, with a touch-sensitive screen. Many of GO’s concepts were ultimately incorporated into other early portable computers such as the Palm Pilot, The Apple Newton, and most recently, IOS products like Apple’s iPad | Show Summary: Serial entrepreneur, futurist, and author Jerry Kaplan explores the positive possibilities and societal challenges of the pending Artificial Intelligence Age in Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Show #101, Hour 2 | Guest: Summer Brennan was born to parents living in a houseboat on the San Francisco Bay. She has written for magazines and newspapers throughout the country and works regularly with the United Nations in New York on issues related to decolonization, disarmament, human rights and the environment. As an undergraduate at Bennington College she studied poetry with Mary Oliver. Later she took her master’s from the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where her work focused on media, journalism and the Middle East. The Oyster War is her first book. | Show Summary: Summer Brennan dissects the polarization of her home town in Marin County, California over the battle of a local ranching family to run their newly acquired Oyster Farm near a protected Wilderness Area.

Show #101, Hour 1 | Guest: Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Florida before writing his first book, the story collection My Life in Heavy Metal. His non-fiction book, Candyfreak, was a New York Times Bestseller. His short fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and his most recent collection, God Bless America, won the Paterson Prize for Fiction. Almond writes commentary and journalism regularly for The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe. A former sports reporter and play-by-play man, Almond lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. | Show Summary: Former fan Steve Almond received so much vociferous feedback on his book Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, he’s released a new edition with an updated forward.

Show #100, Hour 2 | Guests: Dr. Judy Melinek, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard University. She trained at UCLA in medicine and pathology, graduating in 1996. Her training at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York is the subject of her memoir, Working Stiff, which she co-wrote with her husband, T.J. Mitchell. Currently, Dr. Melinek is CEO of PathologyExpert Inc., and works as a forensic pathologist in Alameda county. She also travels nationally and internationally to lecture on anatomic and forensic pathology and she has been consulted as a forensic expert in many high-profile legal cases, as well as for the television shows E.R. and Mythbuster | Show Summary: Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. Working Stiff is the fearless memoir of the young forensic pathologist’s “rookie season” as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases—hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex—that shaped her as both a

Show #100, Hour 1 | Guest: Kristina Rizga has been writing about youth and student issues for over a decade, most recently as an education reporter for “Mother Jones.” Her writing has been published in “The Nation,” “The American Prospect,” and Global Post, among other publications. Prior to “Mother Jones,” Rizga was the executive editor of “WireTap, “an award-winning political magazine for young adults. She is also co-founder and reporter at the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism, based in her homeland, Latvia. She lives with her husband Mike Stern in San Francisco. | Show Summary: Mother Jones education reporter Kristina Rizga presents the hopeful tale of one of the nation’s most diverse public schools innovating against the odds. Mission High School has created engaging and effective classrooms, even while being classified as “low-performing” and struggling against closure and test scores.