Matt Rothschild reading, Live From Prairie Lights, April 21, 2009

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Title	Matt Rothschild reading, Live From Prairie Lights, April 21, 2009
Creator	Rothschild, Matthew
Contributor	Scruggs, T. M. (Thomas Mitchell) Cox, Jeffrey
Date Original	2009-04-21
Description	Editor Matthew Rothschild reads from "Democracy in Print, the Best of the Progressive." This collection of the periodical's essays captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history. Included are pieces by the magazine's founder, Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette, and his suffragist wife, Belle Case La Follette. Other writers of historic importance include Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, Huey Long, John Kenneth Galbraith, Theodore Dreiser, Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Upton Sinclair, Arundhati Roy, James Baldwin, Edwidge Danticat and Edward Said. The collection is leavened with humor from Kate Clinton, Will Durst, Michael Feldman, and Molly Ivins, and graced by poems from writers including Mahmoud Darwish, Rita Dove, Martín Espada, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich and Sandra Cisneros. Interview transcripts document conversations with prominent cultural figures including Chuck D, the Dalai Lama, Allen Ginsberg, Amy Goodman, Harold Pinter, Patti Smith, Susan Sarandon and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Rothschild is editor of The Progressive magazine and host of "Progressive Radio" a weekly public affairs program syndicated nationally. He is author of the book "You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression."
Note	Live From Prairie Lights was a live public radio program broadcast from Prairie Lights, an independent bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. The program showcased new and established writers from around the world.
Venue	Prairie Lights Bookstore
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Authors Writing
Geographic Subject	United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City
Chronological Subject	2000-2010
Type (DCMIType)	Sound
Type (AAT)	Dramatic readings Broadcasts
Type (IMT)	mpeg
Duration	01:05:34
Language	English
Digital Collection	Virtual Writing University Archive
Contributing Institution	Prairie Lights (Iowa City, Iowa)
Subcollection	Live From Prairie Lights
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other rights given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the VWU Webmaster: http://www.writinguniversity.org/index.php/main/info/25/
File Name	LPL_2009_04_21.mp3

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