While CLBR remains on hiatus, we do like to provide updates on stories that we covered over the years. Last fall we spoke with Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America” – which was a groundbreaking work on the origins and impact of the opioid crisis. This week, an Oklahoma judge… Read More Epilogue: Big Pharma Starts to Pay the Price for its Role in Opioid Crisis
While CLBR remains on hiatus, we do like to provide updates on stories that we covered over the years. In March 2018, we heard from Darieth Chisolm, an Emmy Award-winning TV host and victim of revenge porn at the hands of her former boyfriend in Jamaica. “After months of isolation, suffering in shame and silence,” Darieth… Read More Epilogue: Darieth Chisolm Wins Revenge Porn Case and is Releasing Documentary
Alissa Quart, Author of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS WMR iTunes Podbay Spreaker Stitcher We are belatedly posting the final segment from our Miami Book Fair author’s series with my discussion taped this fall with Alissa Quart, author of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America. Nearly a… Read More CLBR #327: Alissa Quart, Author of Squeezed – Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Mark Leibovich, Author of Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS WMR iTunes Podbay Stitcher We continue our Miami Book Fair author’s series with my discussion taped this fall with fellow New Englander and Patriots fan Mark Leibovich, author of Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times. From the… Read More CLBR #326: Mark Leibovich and Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South Pam Kelley LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS WMR iTunes Podbay Spreaker Stitcher We continue our Miami Book Fair author’s series with my discussion taped this fall with Pam Kelley, author of Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition… Read More CLBR #325: Pam Kelley, Author of Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South
Miriam Pawel, Author of The Browns of California The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped A Nation LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS WMR iTunes Podbay Spreaker Stitcher As Governor Jerry Brown leaves the office a final time (see below), it is as the third longest serving Governor in American History. Brown’s departure… Read More CLBR #323: Miriam Pawel on The Browns of California
Famed Historian Michael Beschloss Presidents of War LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS WMR iTunes Podbay Spreaker Stitcher We continue our 2018 Miami Book Fair series with award-winning Presidential historian Michael Beschloss and his new book “Presidents of War.” Presidents of War focuses on President Jefferson who avoided war and believed I think one war enough for… Read More CLBR #322: Michael Beschloss on Presidents and War
