Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon

56:57

Breaking ICE: Sonali Kolhatkar on Community Defense,...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/09/26

What can ordinary people do when immigration enforcement comes to their community? Sonali Kolhatkar talks about Breaking ICE and the networks of mutual aid, documentation and collective action that have emerged across the country.

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58:07

James Baldwin & Keith Haring: Love, Art, Race and the...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/09/21

Looking at James Baldwin through the relationships that shaped his art: Nicholas Boggs joins me to talk about Baldwin: A Love Story. Then Brad Gooch explores Keith Haring’s mission to make art available to everybody.

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59:26

Caring for Aging Parents: Money, Love and Hard Choices

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/08/28

Beth Pinsker and L. Annette Binder explore caring for aging parents, from the financial realities of elder care to Alzheimer’s, memory, love and loss.

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1:02:26

Joseph Kelly on The Biggest Lie and America’s Fascist...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/08/19

Historian Joseph Kelly traces the prehistory of American fascism and the lie that white supremacy gives one group the right to dominate another.

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58:58

Ida Susser on the Yellow Vests, Abdul El-Sayed on...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/08/06

What can France’s Yellow Vests teach us about saving democracy? And how could Medicare for All reclaim healthcare from private profit? Ida Susser and Abdul El-Sayed join Writer’s Voice.

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59:45

Can Sci-Fi Save Us? John Feffer on SONGLANDS and...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/08/01

John Feffer’s SONGLANDS and Portia Elan’s HOMEBOUND imagine futures shaped by climate crisis, AI, and corporate power. We talk with both authors about why care, creativity, and collective action still matter.

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Ada Ferrer on Keeper of My Kin + T.J. English on Havana

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/07/23

Historian Ada Ferrer talks about Keeper of My Kin, her memoir of a Cuban family divided by revolution, migration, and exile. Then Writer’s Voice revisits a 2008 interview with journalist T.J. English about Havana Nocturne, the story of how the Mob took over Cuba and was stopped by the Cuban Revolution.

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59:17

Noam Scheiber on the Mutiny of the New Working Class

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/07/16

What happens when the promise of higher education no longer delivers economic security? New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber argues that millions of college graduates increasingly face the same insecurity that has long confronted traditional working-class Americans. In this conversation, he explains why workers from Starbucks baristas to Hollywood writers are embracing collective action, and why artificial intelligence may deepen that transformation.

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57:45

How to Be a Dissident, Lessons from Resistance Then...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/07/09

What makes an ordinary person become a dissident?Gal Beckerman explores moral courage through figures like Alexei Navalny, Osip Mandelstam and Etty Hillesum. Then Buzzy Jackson revisits the story of Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft.

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1:05:39

Patriotism Redefined: The Moral Legacy of Bates and...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/07/03

What if patriotism isn’t about claiming America is perfect, but helping it become better? This Independence Day on Writer’s Voice: John de Graaf on the true story behind America the Beautiful Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie on Abigail Adams in A Founding Mother

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58:17

U.S. Media’s Gaza Failure with Robin Andersen | Plus:...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/06/27

Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Who gets to tell the story, and who gets erased? This week on Writer’s Voice, we talk with media scholar Robin Andersen about her book The Complicit Lens: U.S. Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. Andersen’s argument is blunt: the American press didn’t … Continue reading U.S. Media’s Gaza Failure with Robin Andersen | Plus: Trans Youth and Anti-Trans Laws with Nico Lang

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1:00:12

Omar Zahzah: How Silicon Valley Suppresses...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/05/28

In this episode of Writer's Voice, Francesca speaks with Omar Zahzah, Palestinian-American scholar, activist, journalist, and author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Zahzah offers the first book-length analysis of how major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok, systematically suppress Palestinian content, and how that suppression is structurally connected to the financial,

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59:50

Caroline Bicks on Stephen King, Marie Adelmann on...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/05/07

Caroline Bicks joins Writer’s Voice to talk about Monsters in the Archives, her fascinating exploration of Stephen King’s private papers, creative process, and the deep emotional fears beneath his horror fiction.Then Marie Adelmann discusses Adjunct, her darkly funny and painfully real novel about precarious academic labor, student debt, and the exploitation built into today’s university system. Two compelling conversations about fear, power, and survival in contemporary American life.

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58:44

Bill McKibben on Solar’s Breakthrough, Anne Fadiman...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/04/23

For Earth Day on Writer’s Voice, Bill McKibben on why solar may be arriving faster than we realize. Then, Anne Fadiman on frogs, pronouns, and the hidden meanings inside ordinary things.

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1:07:56

Free Press 2025, Media Censorship & Daniel Ellsberg’s...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/04/17

Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon speaks with Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored about the State of the Free Press 2025, marking 50 years of tracking underreported stories. Then, Michael Ellsberg discusses Truth and Consequence, a powerful collection of writings by … Continue reading Free Press 2025, Media Censorship & Daniel Ellsberg’s Moral Legacy →

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59:04

Climate Fiction & Plastic Pollution: Stories of...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/04/09

What does climate survival look like—and what’s stopping us from getting there?This week on Writer’s Voice: Ellen Meeropol imagines communities rebuilding in a warming world. Then, Judith Enck reveals how the plastic crisis was engineered—and how we can fight back From empathy to action, this episode connects the dots between storytelling and systemic change.

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58:12

Philip Schultz’s ENORMOUS MORNING: Life, Poetry &...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/04/04

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz joins Writer’s Voice to talk about his new collection Enormous Morning—a moving exploration of aging, memory, regret, and the possibility of beginning again.We also talk about poetry as a way of confronting suffering—and even finding joy.

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59:44

Victoria Woodhull’s Radical Life + The Booksellers ...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/03/14

This week on Writer’s Voice: Two fascinating stories from women’s history. Eden Collinsworth tells the story of Victoria Woodhull—the first woman to run for President of the United States.Then novelist Shelley Noble takes us to New York’s legendary Book Row during a fierce battle over censorship.

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35:38

Jung Chang on Fly, Wild Swans: China, Freedom + the...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/03/07

In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon speaks with bestselling author Jung Chang about her memoir Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself, and China, the long-awaited sequel to her landmark book Wild Swans.

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1:03:50

Dignity or Survival? Two Writers Confront Freedom...

Writer"s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ·

2026/02/27

Political philosopher Lea Ypi reflects on dignity, archives, and the manipulation of history in Indignity.Then Eleanor Shearer brings us into the world of the Jamaican Maroons exiled to Nova Scotia in Fireflies in Winter — a novel about freedom, queer love, and the moral cost of survival.

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