Podcast Interview with Geraldine Ferraro

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  Click Below to Listen to Interview: Geraldine Interview NV edit by Patricia V. Davis (Editor’s Note: This interview was converted from analog tape to MP3 nine months after Ms. Ferraro’s passing, in honor of Italian American Heritage Month 2011.) Five years after her historic run for Vice President of the United States, I had [...]

Salvaging the Sea: Podcast Interview with Sustainable Coral Grower, Ian McMenamin

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by Patricia V. Davis I love Generation Y. They are redefining everything from how we communicate to how we overthrow governments.  And today, HS Radio interviews one Gen Y’er who is revolutionizing how we do business. Ian McMenamin is both an entrepreneur and an environmentalist. Not too long ago, it would have been hard to [...]

Podcast Interview with Memoirists, Cathy Edgett and Jessica O’Dwyer: A Catastrophe…or a Calling?

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by Patricia V. Davis So…things are going along fairly well, until your gynecologist tells you that, at age 32, you’re in early menopause.  That’s what happened to Jessica O’Dwyer. Things were going along fairly well in Cathy Edgett’s life, too, until, at age 55, she was told that she had breast cancer and that it [...]

Podcast Interview with James Redford: “I Ask Myself ─ Even if Nothing Comes of It, Will it Enrich My Life by My Having Spent Time on It?’”

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UPDATE ON James Redford Screening of MANN vs. FORD Wednesday, July 6, 7:00 p.m. at The Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center Director Maro Chermayeff and producer James Redford will introduce and discuss a screening of their powerful new documentary Mann v. Ford, focusing on one of the largest toxic-waste cases in American history. Just [...]

Podcast Interview with author Scott James: “People Don’t Want the Government in their Bedrooms”

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One of the best things about living in the Bay Area of San Francisco is that I get to meet and mingle with some of the most talented artists in the world: Amy Tan standing six feet away from me, singing “These Boots are Made for Walking” with the band, Los Train Wreck, as I [...]

Podcast Interview with Michael Larsen & Elizabeth Pomada

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San Francisco Writers Conference February 2012 ___________________________ It’s that time of the year again – when San Francisco, CA., hosts one of the best writers conferences in the industry- The San Francisco Writers Conference. It will be held in the beautiful Mark Hopkins Hotel with a fabulous line up of exciting guest speakers and three [...]

Podcast Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson: “We are Living in a Time of Scientific Illiteracy”

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Like a number of other wonders now in my life, I came late to appreciating the importance of scientific knowledge for the common person. In high school, my lack of such was stupendously appalling. In 1970, when I was a freshman, I had a crush on a boy who came to class one day in [...]

Podcast Interview with Joyce Maynard: “I Don’t Have to be The Good Girl Anymore”

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Joyce Maynard has a big mouth. It’s either that, or she has too much integrity to lie about anything, despite the fact that telling the truth often gets her into trouble. When you hear our podcast interview, you decide which it is. I first met Joyce Maynard when I signed up for one of her [...]

Either You’re In or You’re In the Way: Podcast Interview with Logan and Noah Miller

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I don’t know why I’m so smitten with the independent filmmakers, Noah and Logan Miller. Maybe it’s because they finish each other’s sentences and often speak in stereo.  Maybe it’s because when they refer to each other as ‘Bro’, as in, “Bro said …” Or, maybe it’s because they’re identical twins, like my own twin [...]

Jane Friedman Talks: How the Internet Has Got Publishing by its Tail

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    Jane Friedman is the Publisher & Editorial Director at F+W Media, which is the parent company of Writers Digest. Intelligent, dedicated, hard-working, and charming, she’s right on the pulse of everything that’s happening in the chaotic and transforming cosmos that the publishing industry has become. And because Jane is all she is, she’s [...]

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