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#111: Julie Sherman (julieswn) Sat 9 Oct 10 07:48

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:48:00 PDT

Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, for our next Inkwell guest, we have invited Carole Berlin, breast cancer survivor, activist and educator, to be our guest. She will be discussing, among other things, "What you should know before your next Mammogram." She has done a lot of research about how chemotherapy and radiation work wtih breast cancer and what else you can do prevent breast cancer and heal yourself if you get it.

Two of the websites she writes for are:

www.breastcancerchoices.org www.annieappleseedproject.org

I hope you will join the conversation, which starts on Wednesday. [Read entire topic]

#110: . (wickett) Fri 10 Sep 10 09:33

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:33:00 PDT

Thank you for the bounty. [Read entire topic]

#109: Julie Sherman (julieswn) Fri 10 Sep 10 08:29

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:29:00 PDT

More links to articles by Susan McCarthy, <sumac>, from the author, so that you can be ready when her interview begins next week:

Straight reporting on wildlife rescue following the Gulf spill: <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/26/MNQQ1EIDI2.DTL>

Reporting on medical research, with added cute dogs: <http://www.parade.com/health/2010/06/20-dogs-sniff-out-disease.html>

Interview with promoter of rapture insurance for pets: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jan/12/pets-second-coming-rapture-atheists>

First-person piece on herding class for dogs: <http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/23/CMGAB98FL01.DTL>

And some of my favorite Salon pieces are one on how not to apologize: <dir.salon.com/people/feature/2001/08/23/sorry_if/index.html?sid=1045639>

Making fun of a football team's name change: <http://www.salon.com/people/satire/2001/04/04/team_names/print.html>

Unkind analysis of study inducing marijuna use in monkeys: <http://www.salon.com/news/health/2000/11/29/stoned_monkeys>

Discussion of different ways of being sick: archive.salon.com/health/feature/2000/07/25/sick/print.html

Profile of cartoonist Gary Larson: <www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/12/21/larson/index.html>

Survey of some trends in evolutionary biology: <www.salon.com/books/it/1999/05/21/evolution/index.html> [Read entire topic]

#108: . (wickett) Mon 6 Sep 10 07:21

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:21:00 PDT

Oh, how lovely! [Read entire topic]

#107: jelly fish challenged (reet) Sun 5 Sep 10 19:30

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:30:00 PDT

yes indeedy! Just yesterday in the Bozeman, Montana airport bookstore I spied "When Elephants Weep". [Read entire topic]

#106: those Andropovian bongs (rik) Sun 5 Sep 10 16:58

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:58:00 PDT

That, I predict, will be a good one. [Read entire topic]

#105: Julie Sherman (julieswn) Sun 5 Sep 10 16:42

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:42:00 PDT

Coming up in Inkwell, starting on 9/15, we will be interviewing Susan McCarthy, <sumac> about her writings, experience as a writer, etc. If you want to read some of her articles before hand, please go to:

<http://dir.salon.com/topics/susan_mccarthy/> [Read entire topic]

#104: David Julian Gray (djg) Sun 8 Aug 10 16:08

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:08:00 PDT

... already ongoing in inkwell.vue is our discussion with Dick Weissman of his recent book we welcome DIck Weissman, to discuss his new book, +Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution: Music and Social Change in America_

Dick's career as a performer, composer, songwriter, studio musician, and author followed a college thesis on Leadbelly's Life and Music. This has included 18 published books about music and the music business, songs and instrumental pieces placed on television, and a national music critics award. "Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution" is the culmination of a 12 year research probject on American music, social change, ethnicity, race, and gender.

It's been a pretty lively discussion - come see 389... [Read entire topic]

#103: Julie Sherman (julieswn) Sun 18 Jul 10 10:47

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:47:00 PDT

Also coming up in Inkwell.vue, starting Wednesday next week, Eric Pooley (former Well member)will be our guest to discuss his new book , "The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth,"

(from his website) In The Climate War, Eric Pooley, deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, takes us behind the scenes and into the minds of the most important players in the struggle to cap global warming pollution*an American civil war in which trillions of dollars and the fate of the planet are at stake. To write this book, Pooley, the former managing editor of Fortune and chief political correspondent for Time, spent three years embedded with an extraordinary cast of characters on all sides of the fight. The result is an epic narrative, a searing expos*, and an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the most important argument in America."

For more on Eric Pooley and his book, check out: <www.ericpooley.com>

<echodog> will be conducting the interview and we hope you all will join in the discussion. [Read entire topic]

#102: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (peoples) Sat 17 Jul 10 15:07

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:07:00 PDT

Beginning August 18, best-selling Australian author Kate Veitch joins us for a conversation about her second novel, "Trust," which delivers a lively and compelling tale of a contemporary Melbourne family thrown into crisis. There's love, there's strife, there's compassion, there's angst, there's duplicity and, yes, some juicy sex. For more on Ms. Veitch and her work, check out her web site: http://www.kateveitch.com/ [Read entire topic]