Author James Gavin signs his new book, "Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne" on June 28, 2009 at the home of Ann Ruckert in New York City. The author reading, along with musical performances by Mike Longo and Genie "Pepper" Swinson, were a fundraiser for the Jazz Foundation of America.
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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. James Gavin, author of Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne published by Atria.
James Gavin has written about some of the most significant blackmusical figures of our time, including Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte,and Miriam Makeba. His 300+ CD liner note essays includeGrammy-nominated article for the box set Ella Fitzgerald - TheLegendary Decca Recordings. He is the author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker an Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret. Visit his website.
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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.
In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South Alabama, a place where their safety from the hostile world around them was assured, and where they developed a unique racial and cultural identity. Jim and Edna Richardson were Ralph Eubanks's grandparents. Part personal journey, part cultural biography, The House at the End of the Road examines a little-known piece of this country's past: interracial families that survived and prevailed despite Jim Crow laws, including those prohibiting mixed-race marriage. Please join the New America Foundation for a conversation with author W. Ralph Eubanks on his new book and a broader discussion about the changing nature of race in America and the idea of a post racial society. Moderating the conversation is Dayo Olopade of the Root. Visit Mr. Eubank's website.
Length-45 minutes, 20 seconds
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. W. Ralph
Eubanks, author of The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three
Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
published by Harper.
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past (Basic Books), which Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003. He has contributed articles to the Washington Post Outlook and Style sections, the Chicago Tribune, Preservation, and National Public Radio. A graduate of the University of Mississippi (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.A., English Language and Literature), he is a recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. Ralph lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and three children and is Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress. Visit his website.
Length-33 minutes, 26 seconds
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir published by W.W. Norton & Co.
Honor Moore is the author of The Bishop’s Daughter (2008), a memoir, that was simultaneously released in paperback (May 2009) with a reissue of her 1996 biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter. The Bishop's Daughter was named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times, a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times and chosen by the National Book Critics Circle as part of their "Good Reads" recommended reading list. It was also selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In April 2009, Library of America published Poems from the Women's Movement, an anthology edited by Honor Moore.
She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir, and her play Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she edited.
Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In addition to Poems from the Women's Movement, she is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and co-editor of The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt and teaches in the graduate writing programs at the New School. From 2005 to 2007, she was an off-Broadway theatre critic for The New York Times. Visit her website.
Author Sam Gosling visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You". This event took place June 17, 2008, as part of the authors@google series.
Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected-and unplanned-ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us. Gosling, one of the field's most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff.
Sam Gosling is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has spent the last decade conducting research on how personality is expressed and perceived in everyday contexts. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Psychology Today, and other publications, and he is featured in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. This is his first book. He lives in Austin, Texas. Visit his website.
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