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Dialogue with Marcia Franklin

Idaho Public Television

Choose from dozens of illuminating conversations with some of the finest writers and thinkers in the world, interviewed over the past 25 years by Idaho Public Television host Marcia Franklin. Be sure to subscribe to receive the latest episodes!

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29:02

Writer Samantha Silva: Mr. Dickens and His Carol

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/12/25

It's one of his most beloved tales, but was written in a hurry and under duress. On this holiday episode of Dialogue, Marcia Franklin talks with Boise writer Samantha Silva about "A Christmas Carol," penned by Charles Dickens in 1843. In her debut novel, "Mr. Dickens and His Carol," Silva melds fact with fiction to imagine how Dickens came up with the plot for his now-classic story. Of Silva's work, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Boise resident Anthony Doerr says, "It's as foggy and haunted and

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29:14

Author Liza Long: "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother"

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/12/18

Marcia Franklin talks with Liza Long, the Boise author of "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother," a blog post that was eventually read by millions of people around the world. Long wrote the piece hours after the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on December 14, 2012. In it, she expressed her fears about her teenage son "Michael," who has a mental illness and has physically threatened her. The essay was a plea for help for him and for Long, who had struggled to get him services.

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40:04

Author Anthony Doerr: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/12/11

Host Marcia Franklin talks in-depth with author Anthony Doerr about his newest book, “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” and the Netflix adaptation of “All the Light We Cannot See,” his 2014 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The conversation was taped at the 2022 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. “Mr. Doerr’s been on Dialogue more times than any other author,” says Franklin. “But still, it had been eight years since we’d recorded an interview together. So it was a lot of fun to catch up with

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28:46

Author Kalani Pickhart: I Will Die in a Foreign Land

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/12/04

Host Marcia Franklin talks with author Kalani Pickhart about her debut novel, “I Will Die in a Foreign Land.” Based on the Maidan uprising in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014, the book’s publication coincidentally occurred a few months before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pickhart talks about what that’s been like, and why she was drawn to write about Ukraine. The conversation was recorded at the 2022 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.

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28:46

Political Scientist Yascha Mounk: German, Jewish,...

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/11/27

Host Marcia Franklin talks with political scientist Yascha Mounk about identity, political divides and his outlook on America. Mounk is the author of several books, including “The People vs. Democracy,” “The Great Experiment,” and “Stranger in My Own Country.” The conversation was recorded at the 2022 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.

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28:46

Author Kali Fajardo-Anstine: The Stories of My Family

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/11/20

Host Marcia Franklin talks with author Kali Fajardo-Anstine about her short story collection, “Sabrina & Corina,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award, and her novel, “Woman of Light.” Both draw on her own multicultural history to tell stories set in Colorado. The conversation was taped at the 2022 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.

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28:46

Author Rebecca Donner: All the Frequent Troubles of...

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/11/13

Conversations From the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference on Dialogue returns for its 15th season. Marcia Franklin talks with author Rebecca Donner about “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” which chronicles the life of Mildred Harnack, her great-great-aunt. Harnack and her husband helped found one of the largest resistance groups against the Nazis. They were both discovered, however, and killed. Mildred is the only known American woman to be executed on the direct orders of Hitler.

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28:59

Author Stephen Kinzer: All the Shah's Men

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/11/06

Marcia Frankin talks with Stephen Kinzer, a New York Times correspondent and author of "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle Eastern Terror." In his book, Kinzer recounts the 1953 U.S-led coup against Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, which resulted in the dictatorship of the Shah. Kinzer talks with Franklin, who just returned from Iran, about the effects the coup continues to have, and the potential future of Iran. Originally aired: 04/01/2004

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29:12

Author Stacy Schiff: The Legacy of the Salem Witch...

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/10/30

Marcia Franklin talks with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy Schiff about her work, The Witches. The book examines the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, delving into what precipitated them, and the participants involved. Franklin talks with Schiff about why she wanted to write the book, the challenges involved and the legacy of the trials. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the Dialogue website for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 10/29/2015 The interview is part

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29:09

Writer Andrew Solomon: The Secret We Share

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/10/23

Author and professor Andrew Solomon relates how he went from being a bullied child suffering from depression to an award-winning journalist traveling the world. Solomon’s 2001 book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has delivered popular TED Talks on culture and psychology. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the Dialogue website for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 9/29/2017 The interview is part of Dialogue’s

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28:59

Author S.C. Gwynne: Empire of the Summer Moon

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/10/16

S.C. “Sam” Gwynne is the author of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and the winner of both the Texas and Oklahoma Book Awards. It paints the epic story of the Comanches, whose territory comprised an estimated 250,000 square miles of the American Plains, an area now part of five states. It also draws the more

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29:09

Author Brando Skyhorse: The Shifting Faces of...

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/10/09

Marcia Franklin talks with author Brando Skyhorse about his life and works, focusing on his memoir, Take This Man. In the book, Skyhorse writes about what it was like to grow up thinking he was Native American and then to find out that was not true. He also discusses the topic of his next novel, Wall. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the Dialogue website for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 11/15/2019 The interview is part of Dialogue’s series “Conversations from the

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29:12

Author Kevin Powers: The Yellow Birds

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/10/02

Marcia Franklin interviews author Kevin Powers, a veteran of the war in Iraq. His first work, "The Yellow Birds," was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel depicts the friendship between two American soldiers in Iraq trying to keep each other alive, and the emotional journey of one of them as he returns home. Powers, who was a speaker at the University of Idaho's annual Hemingway conference, talks about the influence of Hemingway on him, why he wanted to write "The Yellow Birds,"

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29:07

Author Phil Klay: Redeployment

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/09/25

Host Marcia Franklin interviews Phil Klay, an author and veteran of the war in Iraq. Klay’s first work, "Redeployment," won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2014. The 12 short stories in "Redeployment" draw on Klay’s experiences as a U.S. Marine Corps Public Affairs Officer in the Anbar province of Iraq from 2007 to 2008. Franklin talks with Klay about why he wanted to write the book and how he developed the different voices in in his stories, which include a Mortuary Affairs Officer

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28:58

Attorney Philip Howard: Reevaluating Regulation

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/09/18

Host Marcia Franklin interviews a lawyer who believes America's legal system is strangling what's best about our country. Philip Howard is an attorney based in New York City and the author of books about legal reform, including "The Rule of Nobody," "The Death of Common Sense" and "Life Without Lawyers." Franklin talks with Howard about his philosophy and the changes he'd like to see in the country's legislative, executive and judicial branches. In 2002, Howard formed a coalition called

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29:12

Author Anthony Doerr: All the Light We Cannot See

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/09/11

Marcia Franklin talks with Idaho author Anthony Doerr about his bestselling novel, "All the Light We Cannot See," which took ten years to research and write. The book debuted at #10 on the New York Times' Best Sellers list and received glowing reviews around the country. It also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015 shortly after this interview. Franklin talks with Doerr, who lives in Boise, about his novel, which depicts the lives of two European children in World War II, children

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29:03

Writer Esther Emery: A Life Reconnected

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/09/04

On this edition of Dialogue, Marcia Franklin talks with Idahoan Esther Emery, who wrote a book about her year off the internet called “What Falls From the Sky.” Emery talks about the crisis in her life that made her decide to unplug from the web, the challenges she encountered, and how the experience grounded and connected her in new ways to herself and her family. The two also talk about Emery’s current life living off the electric grid with her husband and three children in the mountains

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29:11

Historian Douglas Brinkley: Everybody Will Talk to...

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/08/28

To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Marcia Franklin talks with historian Douglas Brinkley, Ph.D., about his 2012 biography of iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, who famously announced Kennedy's death to a national TV audience on November 22, 1963. In "Cronkite," Brinkley (no relation to newscaster David Brinkley) drew on his access to Cronkite's private papers at the University of Texas and interviews with more than 150 of Cronkite's

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29:04

Writer Michael Lanza: How to Enjoy the Big Outside,...

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/08/21

Marcia Franklin continues her conversation with Boise-based outdoor writer Michael Lanza, focusing on tips for hiking and camping, including some of the best gear and small essentials to pack. The two also talk about ways to keep safe in the backcountry. Lanza, the former Northwest editor for Backpacker magazine, has written three books about hiking, as well as many articles chronicling his worldwide adventures hiking, climbing, skiing and paddling. "Before They're Gone," his book about

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29:05

Writer Michael Lanza: How to Enjoy the Big Outside,...

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin ·

2022/08/14

Marcia Franklin talks with Idaho outdoor writer and photographer Michael Lanza about some of the best backcountry trips in our region. Lanza, the former Northwest editor for Backpacker magazine, has written three books about hiking, as well as many articles chronicling his worldwide adventures backpacking, climbing, skiing and paddling. "Before They’re Gone," his book about his family’s adventures hiking through some of the national parks in America most threatened by climate change, won an

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