http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/reading 2008-09-05T22:38:51Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49764-ishmael-by-daniel-quinn-pages-85 2008-09-05T22:38:51Z brokendave <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vop8Wz6LkoQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vop8Wz6LkoQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/49764-ishmael-by-daniel-quinn-pages-85"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/60380" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>I am using a different book than ItsFilthy. So, I assume I read pages 85-88...</p> </div> <a href="/blog/49764-ishmael-by-daniel-quinn-pages-85">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49258-reading-2100-tacoma-wa 2008-09-05T22:18:37Z freckldnred <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PJ5gwo4DP6c&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PJ5gwo4DP6c&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/49258-reading-2100-tacoma-wa"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/59718" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>I combined 2 of my clips, this is the entire clip of the 2100 running up the Hill in Tacom, it is assited by an FP40. This was the summer of 2007. The entire Operation relocated to the East side of the State, but last I heard, there was no activity. It was fun while it was here though.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/49258-reading-2100-tacoma-wa">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/48550-dr-cosmo-takes-a-liberal-s-shocking-confession 2008-09-05T22:18:49Z Cosmo Plavix <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JJKSZTBzRLo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JJKSZTBzRLo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/48550-dr-cosmo-takes-a-liberal-s-shocking-confession"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/58477" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>In an astounding and disturbing segment, Dr. Cosmo hears a liberal's stunning admissions and suggests a course of therapeutic action.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/48550-dr-cosmo-takes-a-liberal-s-shocking-confession">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47891-fora-tv-staff-favorites-amy-tan 2008-08-27T10:53:52Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTZ9Ur3K40s&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTZ9Ur3K40s&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47891-fora-tv-staff-favorites-amy-tan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/57598" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>FORA.tv syndication editor Maureen Olund discusses her fondness of Amy Tan and showcases the featured program On Writing: Amy Tan in Conversation with Roger Rosenblatt from the Chautauqua Institution.</p> <p>Complete video of Amy Tan in conversation with Roger Rosenblatt: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/On_Writing_Amy_Tan_in_Conversation_with_Roger_Rosenblatt">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>FORA.tv Culture Section: <a href="http://fora.tv/section/culture">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>FORA.tv Blog: <a href="http://foratv.blogspot.com/">foratv.blogspot.com</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/47891-fora-tv-staff-favorites-amy-tan">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45850-witness-the-alphabet-book-part-1 2008-07-19T04:40:21Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeZhAUwDAGY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeZhAUwDAGY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45850-witness-the-alphabet-book-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/53153" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Can the small Kalesh tribe surrounded by a hostile community on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan survive with the introduction of an alphabet.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45850-witness-the-alphabet-book-part-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45307-reading-2100-fredrickson-wa 2008-09-05T22:18:40Z freckldnred <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ElNBJxMs0-A&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ElNBJxMs0-A&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45307-reading-2100-fredrickson-wa"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52411" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This the 4-8-4 Reading 2100 when it was in Tacoma, WA. August 6, 2006</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45307-reading-2100-fredrickson-wa">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45305-reading-2100-tacoma-wa 2008-09-05T22:18:40Z freckldnred <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ty8Vz448oCs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ty8Vz448oCs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45305-reading-2100-tacoma-wa"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52409" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This is the 4-8-4 Reading 2100 on August 5, 2006. It's no longer in service here, and has moved on. this is at the Freighthous Square in Tacoma, WA. The 2100 is passing the Sounder Commuter Train.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45305-reading-2100-tacoma-wa">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45303-reading-2100-up-the-hill 2008-09-05T22:18:40Z freckldnred <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eWbRoCNnH00&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eWbRoCNnH00&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45303-reading-2100-up-the-hill"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52407" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This is the Reading 2100, 4-8-4 Starting up the hill just south of the Freighthouse Square in Tacoma.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45303-reading-2100-up-the-hill">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45301-reading-2100-tacoma-wa 2008-09-05T22:18:39Z freckldnred <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AYBvs1kBesw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AYBvs1kBesw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45301-reading-2100-tacoma-wa"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52405" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The 2100 backing down Tacoma Rail tracks past the Freighthous to the Tideflats.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45301-reading-2100-tacoma-wa">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45300-reading-2100-tacoma-wa 2008-09-05T22:18:39Z freckldnred <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UI__OPmKj6k&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UI__OPmKj6k&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45300-reading-2100-tacoma-wa"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52404" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Reading 4-8-4, 2100 crossing South 56th Street in Tacoma, WA</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45300-reading-2100-tacoma-wa">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/41861-fora-tv-s-summer-reading-list 2008-07-09T12:58:53Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o0ikWhp0PbA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o0ikWhp0PbA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/41861-fora-tv-s-summer-reading-list"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/47198" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Get to know the FORA.tv staff as they walk you through their picks for summer reading! Authors discussed include:</p> <p>Walter Isaacson on Einstein: His Life and Universe <br />http://fora.tv/2007/04/20/Walter_Isaacson_on_Einstein</p> <p>A.J. Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically <br />http://fora.tv/2007/10/24/A_J__Jacobs_Year_of_Living_Biblically</p> <p>Mary Roach on Bonk <br />http://fora.tv/2008/04/15/Mary_Roach_In_Conversation_with_Beth_Lapides</p> <p>Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns <br />http://fora.tv/2007/06/08/Khaled_Hosseini_A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns</p> <p>Michael Krasny on Off Mic: A Memoir of Talk Radio <br />http://fora.tv/2007/10/18/Michael_Krasny_A_Memoir_of_Talk_Radio</p> <p>Fareed Zakaria on The Post-American World <br />http://fora.tv/2008/05/20/Fareed_Zakaria_The_Post-American_World</p> <p>Tom Wolfe on American Novels <br />http://fora.tv/2008/05/12/Tom_Wolfe_on_the_Journalistic_Approach_to_American_Novels</p> <p>Raj Patel on Stuffed and Starved <br />http://fora.tv/2008/05/16/Raj_Patel_Discusses_Stuffed_and_Starved</p> <p>Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins <br />http://fora.tv/2008/04/07/A_Selection_of_Poems_by_Billy_Collins</p> <p>Leslie Bennetts - The Feminine Mistake <br />http://fora.tv/2007/05/02/Feminine_Mistake</p> </div> <a href="/blog/41861-fora-tv-s-summer-reading-list">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40418-billy-collins-the-lanyard 2008-07-15T09:28:06Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0EjB7rB3sWc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0EjB7rB3sWc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40418-billy-collins-the-lanyard"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45597" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/04/07/A_Selection_of_Poems_by_Billy_Collins">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem, "The Lanyard."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Poet Billy Collins is a unique literary figure - a widely read contemporary poet. The former US Poet Laureate and New York State Poet has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, though his most dramatic honors come from a wide and appreciative readership. Collins's poetry collections, including The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, and Picnic, Lightening, have broken records for poetry sales. His writing is marked by inventiveness beyond traditional poetry forms with ironic twists and lyrical turns of phrase that resonate powerfully. An advocate for integrating poetry into everyday life, Collins compiled the anthologies Poetry 180 and 180 More with poems for every day of a typical school year. Billy Collins has been a professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York since 1968 - City Arts & Lectures</p> <p>Billy Collins is the author of several books of poetry and two anthologies of contemporary poetry, including The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems; The Arts of Drowning, which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall prize; and Questions About Angels, which won the National Poetry Series in 1990. He is also a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY). Collins served as US Poet Laureate (2001-2003) and as New York State Poet Laureate (2004-2006). Collins' poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Harper's, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among many other journals and periodicals. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has won several awards and prizes.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/40418-billy-collins-the-lanyard">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40340-billy-collins-litany 2008-07-13T13:04:02Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/56Iq3PbSWZY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/56Iq3PbSWZY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40340-billy-collins-litany"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45508" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/04/07/A_Selection_of_Poems_by_Billy_Collins">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins discusses stealing material from other writers, and reads his poem, "Litany."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Poet Billy Collins is a unique literary figure - a widely read contemporary poet. The former US Poet Laureate and New York State Poet has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, though his most dramatic honors come from a wide and appreciative readership. Collins's poetry collections, including The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, and Picnic, Lightening, have broken records for poetry sales. His writing is marked by inventiveness beyond traditional poetry forms with ironic twists and lyrical turns of phrase that resonate powerfully. An advocate for integrating poetry into everyday life, Collins compiled the anthologies Poetry 180 and 180 More with poems for every day of a typical school year. Billy Collins has been a professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York since 1968 - City Arts & Lectures</p> <p>Billy Collins is the author of several books of poetry and two anthologies of contemporary poetry, including The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems; The Arts of Drowning, which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall prize; and Questions About Angels, which won the National Poetry Series in 1990. He is also a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY). Collins served as US Poet Laureate (2001-2003) and as New York State Poet Laureate (2004-2006). Collins' poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Harper's, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among many other journals and periodicals. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has won several awards and prizes.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/40340-billy-collins-litany">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/23861-author-reading-the-shoals-of-time-by-p-orin-zack 2008-09-05T22:35:57Z poz26 <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kx_x0S3aBJs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kx_x0S3aBJs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/23861-author-reading-the-shoals-of-time-by-p-orin-zack"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/25856" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>In 2001, Homeland Security was given the task of eliminating the threat of terrorism. It was granted broad powers, autonomy, and told to do whatever it took to accomplish its objective. To succeed, the department will eventually have to be given the authority to act globally as well.</p> <p>What if an agency like this became the centerpiece of a global peace effort, and that in turn created the need for a global government with the power to maintain the peace provided by that agency? What if it was so successful that peace was enforced for over a century? Now imagine your world and its people faced with the threat of extinction, and the one thing preventing you from doing something about it was that very same agency. What would you do?</p> <p>"The Shoals of Time" is about such a world. Except that after the conflict between peacekeeper and revolutionary was reduced to a game of cat and mouse between their leaders, the cheese escaped into the past...</p> <p>In 2291, psychically-trained Healer Gillian Thomas is gathering herbs in the hills above Los Angeles when she's unceremoniously escorted back to town by a pair of brusque MedCenter Security workers. Her former bond-partner, a government peacekeeper, had been injured, and one of her escorts suspects that Phil ought to have been treated at the holistic Kubler-Ross Hospice Center where Gillian worked, rather than at the tech-heavy East-Side MedCenter.</p> <p>Engaging her escort in an illicit investigation, she visits the crime scene, and discovers that there was more to the story than she'd been told. But while mulling over the evidence with some medicinal tea, she inexplicably passes out. When she regains consciousness, she finds she has a serious problem: she can't move, can't open her eyes, can't even call for help, and nobody responds to her psychic pleas for help. Having no alternative, she decides to go out-of-body to look for answers.</p> <p>Intent on finding whoever was responsible for causing the situation, she sets out on a dangerous journey, knowing full well that not everyone who had made the attempt returned alive.</p> <p>"...an engrossing saga of love, betrayal, disaster, and repercussions ... highly recommended ... an enjoyable, complex, interwoven narrative..." --- Midwest Book Review</p> <p>"...a big novel that's richer, more intricate, and has more going on than most of the science fiction novels on the shelves these days... " --- Writer's Digest</p> <p>Visit my blog: KlurgSheld.wordpress.com</p> </div> <a href="/blog/23861-author-reading-the-shoals-of-time-by-p-orin-zack">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/23859-author-reading-short-story-lost-weekend-by-p-orin-zack 2008-09-05T22:35:57Z poz26 <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xg-J_lh_13k&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xg-J_lh_13k&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/23859-author-reading-short-story-lost-weekend-by-p-orin-zack"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/25854" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>We all do stupid things, but sometimes nobody will believe you, even when you tell the truth. Take this guy, for example...</p> <p>Visit my blog: KlurgSheld.wordpress.com</p> </div> <a href="/blog/23859-author-reading-short-story-lost-weekend-by-p-orin-zack">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/23860-author-reading-deadly-attractor-by-p-orin-zack 2008-09-05T22:35:57Z poz26 <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lhXDAmNzgnU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lhXDAmNzgnU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/23860-author-reading-deadly-attractor-by-p-orin-zack"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/25855" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>If a global peacekeeping agency had temporal intelligence tech, how would pre-emptive ops be carried out? What would they look like? Angela Pascoe may have found out. She's a psychic Healer from Australia, and she's noticed a rash of unusual -- and sometimes impossible -- accidents among patients referred to a MedCenter for treatment. Accidents like the one she had after nosing around for clues. But when she attempted to follow a promising lead, someone anonymously trashed her reputation, got her fired, and sent the police after her. And now she's afraid she'll have another accident -- a fatal one.</p> <p>The jury in a medical collusion trial might seem an unlikely group to expose a major government scandal, but in the courtrooms of the paranormal science fiction thriller, "Deadly Attractor", jurors not only render verdicts, they also interrogate witnesses, and they can hire psychics like Healer Frank Sanroya to help.</p> <p>Frank just wanted a paying sideline, but Angela had other ideas, and when she pushed her tormentor into the open and confronted him, she learned the dark secret at the heart of a century of successful global government.</p> <p>'Deadly Attractor' takes place 28 years before the events described in 'The Shoals of Time'.</p> <p>NOTE: This video was the original version of the opening chapter.</p> <p>Visit my blog: KlurgSheld.wordpress.com</p> </div> <a href="/blog/23860-author-reading-deadly-attractor-by-p-orin-zack">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/23858-author-reading-burnout-fever-by-p-orin-zack 2008-09-05T22:35:57Z poz26 <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4h3xQ6RzdjQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4h3xQ6RzdjQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/23858-author-reading-burnout-fever-by-p-orin-zack"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/25853" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Everyone gets job burnout at one time or another, but what if you didn't recover from it? What if nobody did?</p> <p>Freelance writer Melanie Stroub was happily trashing webevangelist Wilfred McQuarry's weekly rant about angels when she got it, and ended up fixated on angels. It was like that for everyone: whatever you were doing when you got Burnout Fever was carved into your soul. Following a free-ranging conversation was no longer possible, and everything had to be translated back to your fixation. For some, it made little difference; for others, it spelled disaster.</p> <p>Barry Lieber knew all about it. He'd watched helplessly while Melanie succumbed one morning over breakfast, and it drove him into joining a grassroots effort to find a cure. His activist friend Derek had good contacts in D.C., even in Congress. But there were others who looked at Burnout Fever as an opportunity, and when McQuarry incited a religious war over the victims, it stopped being just a health issue.</p> <p>Nobody was safe. Every promising lead turned sour. The righteous, the wealthy, and the powerful all sought shelter from the madness, from the logic-defying pattern of contagion that stymied even the Centers for Disease Control. It defied explanation, but without a cure, the Earth would vanish like a bad dream. And time was running out.</p> <p>Visit my blog: KlurgSheld.wordpress.com</p> </div> <a href="/blog/23858-author-reading-burnout-fever-by-p-orin-zack">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/22599-tom-barbash-reads-from-jack-kerouac-s-on-the-road 2008-06-11T21:31:14Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NbzOSfIfe0Q&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NbzOSfIfe0Q&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/22599-tom-barbash-reads-from-jack-kerouac-s-on-the-road"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/24129" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2007/09/05/On_the_Road_50th_Anniversary">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author Tom Barbash reads a selection from Jack Kerouac's influential 1957 novel "On the Road."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>"On the Road: The 50th Anniversary," featuring Robert Mailer Anderson, Eddie Muller and Tom Barbash.</p> <p>Join Bay Area novelist Robert Mailer Anderson as he leads a celebration of Jack Kerouac's famous novel "On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition." Kerouac's book was first published in 1957, and it has come to epitomize the spirit and ideas of the Beat Generation, which had its origins in San Francisco. Maybe a few lusty readings from the book will revive the spirit! - Book Passage</p> <p>Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, educator and critic. He is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House, Story magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His cricitism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He currently teaches at Stanford University, where was both a Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer, at California College of the Arts, and at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/22599-tom-barbash-reads-from-jack-kerouac-s-on-the-road">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/15094-muse-pimps-alex-jones-terror-storm 2008-06-16T03:31:56Z Souldrift <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sri5Cra5tdY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sri5Cra5tdY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/15094-muse-pimps-alex-jones-terror-storm"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/14966" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Alternative band Muse pimping Alex Jones &#39;Terror Storm&#39; at a festival appearance in 2006.&nbsp; Watch the back of Matt Bellamy&#39;s shirt.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/15094-muse-pimps-alex-jones-terror-storm">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5742-david-shenk-chess-the-immortal-game 2008-06-07T09:34:06Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/plNb6FF8rTo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/plNb6FF8rTo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5742-david-shenk-chess-the-immortal-game"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/5016" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=360">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author David Shenk discusses Chess, highlighting several qualities he feels have helped the game to endure across centuries.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>David Shenk talks about "The Immortal Game."</p> <p>In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinite possibilities. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. - Book Passage</p> <p>David Shenk is an award-winning, national-bestselling author of five books, and a contributor to National Geographic, Slate, Harper's, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Wired, and The American Scholar. He has written about music, technology, politics, bioethics, the brain, corporate malfeasance and kids' toys. He lectures frequently, and regularly appears on TV and radio.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5742-david-shenk-chess-the-immortal-game">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5737-anna-quindlen-excerpt-from-rise-and-shine 2008-06-07T09:34:10Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ke4yQh-IvPw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ke4yQh-IvPw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5737-anna-quindlen-excerpt-from-rise-and-shine"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/5011" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=363">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author and Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen reads an excerpt from her novel, "Rise and Shine."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Meghan, host of the highest-rated morning talk show, utters profanity on the air and is suddenly dealing with a halt in her career. It's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, but also for her sister Bridget, who has always lived in Meghan's long shadow. The effect of the on-air truth telling reverberates through both their lives, affecting Meghan's family, friends and fans. -- Book Passage</p> <p>Anna Quindlen is the author of five novels (Blessings, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Rise and Shine), and six nonfiction books (Being Perfect, Loud & Clear, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5737-anna-quindlen-excerpt-from-rise-and-shine">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5735-neil-gaiman-instructions 2008-06-07T09:34:17Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bi2pBZGJqj8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bi2pBZGJqj8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5735-neil-gaiman-instructions"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/5009" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=397">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Acclaimed science-fiction author Neil Gaiman reads his poem, "Instructions."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>An Evening's Entertainment with Neil Gaiman celebrating "Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders."</p> <p>In this dazzling new collection of more than twenty-five pieces of short fiction including a novella featuring the hero of his masterpiece "American Gods," Neil Gaiman charts the terrain between life and death, perception and reality, darkness and light. Guaranteed to dazzle the senses, haunt the imagination, and touch the heart, "Fragile Things" is a gift of wonder from one of the most unique literary artists of our time. Neil Gaiman is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the novels "American Gods," "Neverwhere," "Stardust," "Coraline," and "Anansi Boys;" "The Sandman" series of graphic novels; and "Smoke and Mirrors," a collection of short fiction - Cody's Books</p> <p>Gaiman is also the coauthor of the novel "Good Omens" with Terry Pratchett. Among the many awards he has won are the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Bram Stoker awards.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5735-neil-gaiman-instructions">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5730-isaiah-wilner-the-man-time-forgot 2008-06-07T09:34:12Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvgbUggdi-Q&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvgbUggdi-Q&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5730-isaiah-wilner-the-man-time-forgot"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/5004" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=416">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author Isaiah Wilner describes the unusual friendship between Britton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two co-founders of Time Magazine.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Isaiah Wilner explores the controversial, never-before-told story of how Briton Hadden forever changed American media - creating Time Magazine with Henry R. Luce - and how Luce betrayed him in "The Man Time Forgot." Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Hadden and Luce are not yet twenty-five when they start the nation's first newsmagazine at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. Millionaires at thirty, together they lay the foundation for a media empire. But their partnership is explosive and their rivalry ferocious, inspired by envy as well as love. When Hadden dies at the age of thirty-one, Luce begins to bury the legacy of the giant he was never able to best. Wilner paints a fascinating portrait of a man whose mind dreams of everything, from the weekly newsmagazine to Life, Sports Illustrated, and the radio quiz show, traveling from the tomb of Yale's storied secret society, Skull and Bones, to high-society Europe and South America, following the friendship of two brilliant and opposite souls who inspire one another to the pinnacle of earthly success. Hadden's Time -- the magazine his idea -- sets the course for modern journalism into the twenty-first century. The 28-year-old author of "The Man Time Forgot" discovered the story while editing the Yale Daily News, where he worked under a dusty portrait of Briton Hadden, and wondered why so few people had heard of him. The result is this stylish, passionate and provocative debut. </p> <p>Isaiah Wilner grew up in Seattle and was educated at Yale University. He lives in New York. This is his first book.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5730-isaiah-wilner-the-man-time-forgot">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5725-maxine-hong-kingston-veterans-of-war-veterans-of-peace 2008-06-07T09:34:30Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rR90m_vhcS4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rR90m_vhcS4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5725-maxine-hong-kingston-veterans-of-war-veterans-of-peace"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/4999" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=435">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author Maxine Hong Kingston performs a duet book reading with Gulf War I veteran Sean Mclain Brown.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Maxine Hong Kingston and guests celebrate "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling written by those most profoundly affected by war.</p> <p>Since 1991, author and peace-maker Maxine Hong Kingston has been leading meditation-and-writing workshops for veterans and their families. This book is a collection of the essays, poems, and stories of these veterans of war and veterans of peace. Vast in scope and in heart, it is the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars. The contributors to this volume - combat veterans, medics, and others who served in war; gang members, drug users, and victims of domestic violence; draft resisters, deserters, and peace activists - are part of a large community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war through art. Reading their words, we witness worlds torn apart then rebuilt. Those speaking this evening, in addition to Kingston, are Maureen Nerli, Doug Howerton, Ted Sexauer, Clare Morris, Mike Wong, Sean Mclain Brown, Dan Fahey, and Dennis Fritzinger. Kingston is the author of "The Fifth Book of Peace," "To Be the Poet," "Hawai'i One Summer," "Tripmaster Monkey," "China Men," and "The Woman Warrior." - Cody's Books</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5725-maxine-hong-kingston-veterans-of-war-veterans-of-peace">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5720-amy-tan-saving-fish-from-drowning 2008-06-07T09:34:27Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RPfx5axv0Ok&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RPfx5axv0Ok&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/5720-amy-tan-saving-fish-from-drowning"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/4994" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete program at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=444">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Author Amy Tan reads from and discusses the fictional "Note to the Reader" from the beginning of her novel, "Saving Fish from Drowning."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>On an ill-fated art expedition into Burma, 11 Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour - and disappear. Through twists of fate they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of a leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages of the Myanmar military regime. Tan is the author of "The Joy Luck Club;" "The Bonesetter's Daughter" and "Opposite of Fate." - Book Passage</p> </div> <a href="/blog/5720-amy-tan-saving-fish-from-drowning">Watch the video</a>