Show #7-16 – March 23, 2008
Kevin Patterson
Afghanistan, our nation had started to seriously question its role in the conflict.
Outside the Wire is a collection of explicit first hand accounts from the soldiers, doctors, and aid workers on the front lines.
The Rundown
A look at this week's literary newsmakers including rapper Eminem's new book, best selling novels in Japan on mobile phones and the new graphic novel Macbeth from Classical Comics.
In Defense of Food
Thirty years of diet advice has made North American sicker, fatter and increasingly confused about what to eat. Well, Michael Pollen offers a simple manifesto: Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
For new novelist Kate Jacobs, writing The Friday Night Knitting Club was as therapeutic as a girls' night out. Confessing she's all for chic lit, the book is about the special bonds between women. Its online community has been a hit, and Julia Roberts has already signed on to produce and star in the movie version of the book.
Dr. Gabor Mate
Vancouver based physician Dr. Gabor Mate has devoted his life to working with some of the most downtrodden in the city's downtown east side. In his most recent book In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Mate describes the ways in which the slippery evils of addiction take hold.
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