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Al Letson: Summer In Sanctuary

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_170211F.mp3 Show #157 | February 11, 2017 | Host of the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal radio show, Al Letson's Summer in Sanctuary is an autobiographical narrative chronicling Letson’s summer working as a creative writing teacher at a community center in an economically challenged Florida neighborhood. Angie and Al discuss his show, and his life as both a creative soul and a journalist. Al Letson created and hosted the State of the Re-Union podcast, honored with a Peabody award and three consecutive Edward R. Murrow award. He then joined CIR to help launch and host Reveal, public radio's first investigative journalism show. The show’s pilot won a Peabody Award (2013) for its investigation of the over-prescribing of opiates. Permalink to this podcast here....

Ayelet Waldman: Microdosing LSD

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_170128F.mp3 Show #156 | January 28, 2017 | Bestselling author Ayelet Waldman joins In Deep's Angie Coiro for a conversation on micro-dosing, family, marriage and how it all ties together (or sometimes doesn't). Coiro sits down with Waldman for a special one-hour edition of In Deep to discuss the problems facing parents today, the underground community of micro-dosers across the country, and her new book "A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life." Ayelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter's Keeper, as well as of the essay collection, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs at the UC Berkeley law school. She lives in Berkeley, California, with...

Protest in the era of Trump

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_170121F.mp3 Show #155 | January 21, 2017 | What's the real goal of protests - and what's the chance of those goals being achieved? What protest techniques and tactics have been effective historically? Guests:Sheila Thomas has experience litigating both class and individual gender and race employment discrimination cases. She is adjunct faculty member at Golden Gate University School of Law, and serves on The Advancement Project's board of directors. Dr. Clayborne Carson is the founder and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. Permalink to this podcast here....

Peggy Orenstein, “Girls and Sex”

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160514F.mp3 Show #154 | January 14, 2017 | A re-broadcast of our May 14, 2016 show featuring an interview with best-selling author and journalist Peggy Orenstein. The discussion centered on her book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. An important conversation about gender, myths, perception and the potent subtext of sex in the world of young people growing up today.Guest: New York Times best-selling author Peggy Orenstein was named one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” by The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012. In addition to Girls and Sex, she’s the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. You can find her on Facebook and on Twitter, @peggyorenstein. Permalink for this podcast here....

Adam Gazzaley, “The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World”

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_170107F.mp3 Show #153 | January 7, 2017 | We are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask -- read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Never mind the errors in the email, the near-miss on the road, and the unheard conversation at the table. In The Distracted Mind, Adam Gazzaley and Larry Rosen -- a neuroscientist and a psychologist -- explain why our brains aren't built for multitasking, and suggest better ways to live in a high-tech world without giving up our modern technology. The authors explain that our brains are limited in their ability to pay attention. We don't really multitask but rather switch rapidly between tasks. Distractions and interruptions, often technology-related -- referred to by the authors as "interference" -- collide with our goal-setting abilities. We want to finish this paper/spreadsheet/sentence, but our phone signals an incoming message and we drop everything. Even without an alert, we decide that...

We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation – Jeff Chang

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161008F.mp3 Show #152 | December 31, 2016 | A re-broadcast of our October 8, 2016 interview with Jeff Chang. We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation – Jeff Chang in conversation with Angie Coiro. In these provocative, powerful essays, acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon’ Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of “diversity,” the roots of student protest, changing ideas about Asian Americanness, and the impact of a century of racial separation in housing. Throughout these essays, Chang includes the voices of many leading activists from around the country as he charts how popular voices on the ground and in social media have been the main catalyst...

Meg Elison’s “Book of the Unnamed Midwife”

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161224F.mp3 Show #151 | December 24, 2016 | "Book of the Unnamed Midwife", acclaimed in its 2014 release, is out in an updated version, with eerily appropriate timing. Americans awaiting their new president may find the plot description unnerving: When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people...

Cleve Jones, “When We Rise: Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement”

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161210F.mp3 Show #150 | December 17, 2016 | From longtime activist Cleve Jones comes a sweeping, beautifully written memoir about a full and remarkable American life. Jones brings to life the magnetic spell cast by 1970's San Francisco, the drama and heartbreak of the AIDS crisis and the vibrant generation of gay men lost to it, and his activist work on labor, immigration, and gay rights, which continues today. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. As did thousands of young gay people, Jones moved to San Francisco in the early ’70s, nearly penniless, finding a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual liberation. Jones met lovers, developed intense friendships, and found his calling in “the movement.” Jones dove into politics and activism, taking an internship in the office of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who became Jones’ mentor before his murder...

A Capitalist’s Lament: How Wall Street Is Fleecing You and Ruining America

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161206F.mp3 Show #149 | December 6, 2016 | Leland Faust unmasks Wall Street’s unsavory tactics in powerful detail by giving readers a high-level view of how the financial services industry misleads them, overcharges them, and exposes them to needless risk. He documents the financial industry’s alluring come-ons, airbrushed risks, high-stakes gambling, half-truths, misleading statements, outlandish predictions, tricks to overcharge customers, bad deals, and outright fraud by the most prominent and renowned of Wall Street’s players. A Capitalist’s Lament is about what happens when financial firms and their employees forget whose interest they are supposed to protect. It shows how making foolish or wrong predictions is of no consequence to those who make them and how Wall Street luminaries with poor track records still garner celebrity status. Most of all, it spotlights how Wall Street manipulates the system and furthers its own interests at its customers’ expense and puts us all at great risk. Here is what you need to know to protect...

Ya Might As Well Laugh: Comedian Will Durst, Storyteller Linda Levine, and Professor Hilton Obenzinger

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161126F.mp3 Show #148 | November 26, 2016 | An examination of what makes us laugh in even the darkest times. Delving with us into what's funny, what's not, when, and why. Will Durst- the New York Times calls him "possibly the best political comic in the country." Fox News agrees "he's a great political satirist," while the Oregonian hails him as a “hilarious stand-up journalist.” This former radio talk host, oyster shucker, and margarine smuggler currently writes a nationally syndicated humor column, and his scribblings have appeared in Esquire, George, the San Francisco Chronicle, National Lampoon, The New York Times and scads of other periodicals. Hilton Obenzinger teaches writing and American Studies at Stanford. He writes fiction, poetry, history and criticism, has studied the uses of humor, and taught stand-up comedy. He's taught on the Yurok Indian Reservation, operated a community printing press in San Francisco's Mission District, co-edited a publication devoted to Middle East peace, worked as a commercial writer and instructional...