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Democracy and Writing .... I like this link - some of the content

Related Books:

The Feast of the Goat
(Mario Vargas Llosa)

A Bend in the River
(V.S. Naipaul)

Half of A Yellow Sun
(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Why Orwell Matters
(Christopher Hitchens)

Incidental Music:

Ventilador
(Nortec Collective)

Magicke noci
(Plastic People of the Universe)

Fiery Yellow
(Sterolab)

Ja Fun Mi
(Sunny Ade & His African Beats)

Golden Ball
(Stereolab)

Writing Democracy

Interviewer(s): 

Steve Paulson

Anne Strainchamps

Producer(s): 

Charles Monroe-Kane

08.19.2012 (was 11.13.2011)

Some people put their bodies on the line for democracy.  Some pick up weapons.  And some put pen to paper.   Writers who use their gifts to speak truth to power have a special place in the annals of literature.  We revere them for their conscience and their courage.  We'll talk with some of the world’s most celebrated writers talk with us about the literature of democracy. Including and interview with the poet in blue jeans, the dissident playwright who inspired the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the Soviet Union. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, may have recently passed away, but his ideas live on.