Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards discuss their book entitled Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Baumgardner and Richards discuss their early days working together at Ms. magazine, and their eventual collaboration for their first...
Christine Craig, Peter Nazareth, Francis Imbuga, Fred Woodard, and Moyez Vassanji all do readings at an "open mike" night at the Mayflower. Craig reads a poem about poetry, and Peter Nazareth recites "The General Is Out". Issues discussed are...
Government; Politics; New Deal; Work week; Employment; Labor; Human nature; Family life; Feminism; Females; Housewives; Mothers; Chauvinism; Equal opportunity; Human nature
Buket Uzuner describes her readership and feminist aspects of her work. She relates the political unrest in Turkey as well as the country's identification with Europe and with Islam
The four panelists discuss various challenges confronting their respective societies in the coming century. Shoneyin speaks about literature in Africa and challenges when faced by more fundamental concerns posed by war, lack of infrastructure, and...
Anchee Min reads from her fourth novel, Empress Orchid. The novel, set in 19th century China, follows the rise of the last Empress Dowager of China. Min describes the difficulty of portraying a character that the Western world has solely...
Author Pam Houston reads from her novel, Sight Hound. She explains the format of her novel. Each chapter is written in the first-person, from the perspectives of different characters, including nine humans, two dogs, and one cat. Houston also...
Faith Sullivan reads from her novel entitled Gardenias, a sequel to her previous novel, Cape Ann. She begins by reading a poem by a fellow southern Minnesotan poet, Phoebe Hanson. Sullivan goes on to provide a brief synopsis of her novel: two...
Three women writers from the IWP in 1990 discuss the conditions they encounter as female writers in their respective countries. Ezzat Goushegir of Iran discusses women's issues in contemporary Iran ruled under the state of fundamentalist Islam. ...
Jacinda Townsend reads from her short story 'Waterloo' about a young woman and her divorce from a writer and his pet parrot in Manhattan. H.S. Shivaprakash reads from his poetry, some in his native language. He reads using a variety of poetry...