Tony Platt
October 28th, 2011
Show #184 Recorded 10/17/11 Aired 10/18/11
Grave Matters: Excavating California's Buried Past
Retired Professor Tony Platt's son Daniel lived and died in Chico. Before his death Daniel requested a "Viking funeral". When Professor Platt scattered his son's ashes into the ocean he took a close look at the area where the family had had a cabin on the coast. The result is his latest book Grave Matters which is a history of the treatment of Native American remains in California.
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George Keithley & Troy Jollimore
October 15th, 2011
Show #183 Recorded 8/26/11 & 9/23/11 Aired 10/14/11
Night's Body by George Keithley
Nationally-known Chico poet George Keithley, author of the award-winning epic peom The Donner Party, reads from his latest collection, Night's Body, in which he portrays night as a physical and spiritual presence and explores the different ways that we interact with it.
At Lake Scugog by Troy Jollimore
Philosophy professor Troy Jollimore won the National Book Critics Circle Award for this first collections of poems, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, and Tom reappears in some of the poems in this latest collection At Lake Scugog. The San Francisco Chronicle says, "Poetry is often either funny or good, but the poetry of Troy Jollimore is both."
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Jonathan Steinberg
October 7th, 2011
Show #182 Recorded 4/29/11 Aired 10/7/11
Bismarck: A Life
Professor Steinberg writes about the life of Otto von Bismarck, a Prussian Prime Minister and fascinating political genius who ruled Germany in the 19th century and changed the course of history.
