Melanie Joy--a professor who teaches psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and author, most recently of "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism"---reprises the hypothetical dinner scene that opens her new...
Jonathan Safran Foer--the 32-year-old author acclaimed for his novels "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud," he's now penned a non-fiction book, "Eating Animals," which just in its first week out has already generated tremendous attention, discussion and...
Nellie McKay--the singer-songwriter-animal welfare advocate, who, the day before this interview, released her new album, "Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute To Doris Day" -- returned to "Talking Animals" (this marks her fourth visit), discussing the rescue...
Writer-reporter-poet essayist Charles Siebert, the author, most recently, of "The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward A New Understanding Of Animals"--which chronicles his extended encounter with a retired circus chimp named Roger at The Center For Great Apes, a...
E (nee Mark Oliver Everett)--singer-songwriter of the eels, one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the last dozen years--in a discussion framed around animal ideas, discusses the werewolf motif and animal instinct that underpins some of "Hombre Lobo," the...
Hello. As you may know, in addition to "Talking Animals," I host another program at WMNF, an afternoon-drive music show on Wednesdays called the "Sonic Detour." On the June 24 edition, I presented a "Talking Animals"-oriented version of the "Sonic Detour," which...
Holly Robinson--an award-winning writer and author of "The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter," a new, colorful, often-funny and eloquent memoir of growing up as the daughter of a career military man whose second (and secret) career was studying, breeding and raising...
Carol Leifer--the veteran, top-notch comedian and Emmy-nominated writer who's worked on such shows as "Seinfeld," "Saturday Night Live" and the Academy Awards--discusses her new book, "When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win," a memoir-cum-collection of...
Dr. Will Tuttle--an educator, speaker, musician and former Zen monk who holds a Ph.D in education from U.C. Berkeley, and author of "The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health and Social Harmony"--discusses his own description of "The World Peace Diet" and...
Chrissie Hynde--The Pretenders singer-songwriter-guitarist (currently touring the U.S. behind the acclaimed new Pretenders album, "Break Up The Concrete") and longtime animal advocate--discusses the enormous and somewhat surprising (to her, at least) success of...
