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Writer's Block March 2024 For the March episode hear from journalist Sally Armstrong about the book she co-authored with Dr. Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan. Also on the program will be Kate Black about her book Big Mall: Shopping for M ... Show More

Writer's Block March 2024 For the March episode hear from journalist Sally Armstrong about the book she co-authored with Dr. Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan. Also on the program will be Kate Black about her book Big Mall: Shopping for M ... Show More

Writer's Block February 2024 On the February episode for 2024, Steacy Easton will talk about their memoir Daddy Lessons & Lori Hahnel will talk about her most recent novel Flicker. 

In Episode 71, we are joined by Elizabeth Oldfield, a writer, thinker, bridge builder, and Christian working out of the UK. We discuss her new book Fully Alive, and the rich worldview which underlies it. Elizabeth challenges us to live our principles in our daily lives, and to ex ... Show More

In our final episode of 2024, the 16:1 hosts share reflections and takeaways from the 2024 NCTE National Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts. The event was inspiring and energizing, featuring notable figures such as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, comedienne Kat ... Show More

What was it like to be a soldier during the Thirty Years War? I spoke with Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of the upcoming book The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War, about what we can know of the thousands of men who fought ... Show More

L’Histoire qu’on nous enseigne est bien souvent celle des « grands hommes ». Comme si les femmes et les féministes n’avaient pas participé aux évolutions de notre monde, comme si elles n’avaient pas d’histoire. Si leurs actions politiques et leurs résistances sont peu racontées, ... Show More

What is the history of equal rights in Hollywood? In A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood (Columbia UP, 2019), Eithne Quinn, a senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, explores the transitional years following the civil ... Show More

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk My guest today is Cassie Jaye, a filmmaker best known for the hugely controversial 2016 documentary 'The Red Pill' which followed Cassie's journey from feminism to becoming (partially) persuaded b ... Show More

BUY THE BOOK!https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744560/dream-state-by-eric-puchner Buy at Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/dream-state/id6504841280Listen to the Audiobook on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4x3YoAvjZDfv7zEFg4CB8N?si=547a878fa812404f In thi ... Show More

Once there was a girl whose powerful voice would inspire people to fight for equality. Her name was Isabella Baumfree, but we know her now as Sojourner Truth. She was a Black woman born into slavery in Dutch-speaking rural New York in 1797. She escaped to freedom after nearly 30 ... Show More

Deafness and communication, writing Chinese, women as killers in Chile, German postwar history, testimony from a Swedish village and a global history of science are the topics explored in the books shortlisted for this year's prize for Global Cultural Understanding run by the Bri ... Show More