Psychjourney Podcasts

What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Ms. Pam Allyn, author of What To Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child and All the Best Times to Read Them published by Avery.

Pam Allyn is the founder and executive director of LitLife, an internationally recognized organization that trains hundreds of K-12 teachers each year in literacy techniques. She is also the founding director of Books for Boys, an award-winning mentoring and reading initiative at the Children’s Village. The recipient of a Points of Light Award from the Bush Foundation and two James Patterson Pageturner awards, Allyn speaks frequently to parents, teachers, and librarians at major conferences, and has also appeared on the Today show.   Visit her website.

Feminism and Faith Video

At this program on March 11, 2009 at the Jewish Heritage Museum, three women discussed their struggle to reconcile their feminism with their religious beliefs and practices, and shared how they have reclaimed their religions in a personal way. From left to right: Kathryn Joyce (moderator), "Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement"; Reverend Jane Holmes Dixon, former Episcopal Bishop of Washington; Asra Q. Nomani, "Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam"; and Blu Greenberg, "On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition".

Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement

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Length-46 minutes, 11 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Kathryn Joyce, author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement published by Beacon Press.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Kathryn Joyce, author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement published by Beacon Press.

Kathryn Joyce is a freelance writer based in New York City. She is author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, published by Beacon Press in March, 2009. Her freelance writing and reviews have appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The American Prospect, Double X, Search, Religion Dispatches, The Massachusetts Review, RH Reality Check, Newsweek.com, Patheos, Alternet and other publications. She is former managing editor of The Revealer.org, a project of the New York University Center for Religion and Media, and currently writes and produces at the Revenue Watch Institute.  Visit her website.

Isabel Gillies: Happens Every Day Video

A compulsively readable memoir by a woman with a seemingly perfect marriage that begins to crumble. Visit Isabel Gillies website.

Lucky Girl BookSpot Trailer Video

In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.

Lucky Girl: A Memoir

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Length-36 minutes, 52 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mei-Ling Hopgood, author of Lucky Girl: A Memoir published by Algonquin Books.

Mei-Ling has written for  the Detroit Free Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, National Geographic Traveler, the Miami Herald, and has worked in the Cox Newspapers Washington bureau. She has been a recipient of the National Headliner Best in Show, as well as several other national and international awards. She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her husband and their daughter. A newspaper feature she wrote for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the reunion with her birth family won a national award from the Asian American Journalists Association.  Visit her website.

Invisible Sisters: A Memoir

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Length-44 minutes, 31 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jessica Handler, author of Invisible Sisters: A Memoir published by PublicAffairs.

Jessica Handler’s nonfiction has appeared in Brevity.com, More Magazine, Southern Arts Journal, and Ars Medica. An essay derived from Invisible Sisters was nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize, and her work has received Honorable Mention for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Prize. A teacher of creative writing at the Art Institute of Atlanta, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.  Visit her blog.

"Coop" by Michael Perry Video

Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with 37 acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox past (raised in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect by city-bred parents who took in over 100 foster children) for clues as to how he should proceed as a farmer and a parent. Whether describing his family (I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon) or what its like to be bitten in the butt while wrassling a pig (two firsts in one day), Coop is filled with the humor Perrys readers expect, but in the course of a year in which the birth of his child is balanced by the death of a dear friend and worse, he also writes from the quieter corners of his heart. Alternately hilarious, tender, and real as pigs in mud, Coop is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaningand with chickens.

Visit Michael Perry's website.