Book Reviews Episodes
June 17, 2021
Her Three Lives: In conversation withi author Cate Holohan
Gabriel Garcia Marquez the great novelist famously said that every human being has three lives: the public, the private and the secret. Cate Holohan's latest domestic thriller manipulates that complex trifecta of life's inter...
June 5, 2021
A Good Mother: an interview with author Lara Bazelon.
A Good Mother is Lara Bazelon's debut legal thriller novel. A Law Professor at University of San Francisco, School of Law, Lara was formerly a Public Defender in Los Angeles and brings a practitioner's experience to this cour...
May 4, 2021
Dangerous Conjectures : the critically acclaimed novel by Brian Finney. The Interview.
Dangerous Conjectures tells a tale of the way we were, in the three months leading up to the 2020 Covid lockdowns. Set in Berkeley, California, the novel relates the story of a young professional couple caught up in a "throug...
April 20, 2021
Poorly Understood: What America gets wrong about poverty. Speaking with co-author Professor Mark Rank about his book.
Poverty in the United States is more widespread than in the other developed OECD countries due to our skimpy social safety net. For instance, 60% of Americans will experience poverty sometime in their life between 18 and 75 ...
March 17, 2021
CRISPR People. The Science and Ethics of editing the Human Genome
Two women Emanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing the gene editing technique known s CRISPR-CAS9. But in 2018 the first humans were born with edited genes in China, twi...
Feb. 5, 2021
Labyrinth of the Wind (2)
Labyrinth of the Wind is the critically acclaimed debut novel of Madhav Misra, our guest in the Meet the Author series. Madhav takes us back in time to the late 1970s when Teheran, Iran was an international city, awash in pe...
Feb. 3, 2021
Labyrinth of the Wind
Labyrinth of the Wind is the critically acclaimed debut novel of Madhav Misra. Set in Teheran, Iran in the late 1970s as the Shah's regime is coming to an end and the fundamentalist Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini is...
Sept. 29, 2020
Deceit and Dirty Money an interview with author Jim Herlihy
Deceit and Dirty Money is Jim Herlihy's debut novel written in the late 1990's - a simpler and gentler time before 911, Global financial crises, cell phones, the internet and electric cars. Set in San Francisco, this financia...
Sept. 21, 2020
Upon this Rock - Interview with author David Eugene Perry
A new Meet the Author series kicks off today at The San Francisco Experience. David Eugene Perry's debut novel is set in Orvieto, Italy. With a tip of the hat to Dan Brown, this mystery thriller weaves together an intricate ...