Today we have Benjamin Boone on the program. Boone is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, professor, and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ghana (2017-18) and the Republic of Moldova (2006). His Origin Records album THE POETRY OF JAZZ was #3 "Best Album of 2018" in the 83rd Annual Downbeat Readers Poll and featured on NPR's All Things Considered, The Paris Review and many others.
Books:
Furnace Creek Joseph A. Boone
Dreamt Land Mark Arax
The Fallen Stones Diana Marcum
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
Maisie Dobbs Series Jacqueline Winspear
Effortless Mastery Kenny Werner
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor Wooten
Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely
Fredrick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight
The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America Matthew Pearl
Today we have Venita Blackburn on the show. Works by Venita have appeared in newyorker.com, Harper’s, Story, McSweeney’s, Apogee, Split Lip Magazine, the Iowa...
Today we have Andreas Borgeas on the show. Borgeas is a State Senator who represents the Eighth District of California. He has worked in...
Today we are talking about the soon to be published children’s book The Elote Man Goes to College written by Maia Gonzalez, Illustrated by...