http://www.bookpod.org/home/ http://www.bookpod.org/making-art-in-a-random-universe/#PageComment_6153 I checked out the youtube link to Boyle's reading "The Lie"--great reading! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:42:06 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/making-art-in-a-random-universe/#PageComment_6153 http://www.bookpod.org/what-s-it-all-about-judd/#PageComment_6152 Intriguing interview...now I really want to get my hands on this book! Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:59:37 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/what-s-it-all-about-judd/#PageComment_6152 http://www.bookpod.org/when-parents-go-countercultural/#PageComment_6151 The story of a kid who defies his parents by becoming Jewishly observant hit a nerve with me. During my junior year in college, a friend became religious while at Hebrew University, and transferred to a Yeshiva for his 2nd semester to immerse himself in Jewish studies. After we graduated, I became friendly with his parents, who confided in me how disappointed they were with his becoming an observant Jew. "We rejected that," they said. "Anything but that." I remember thinking to myself whether they would have preferred his becoming a drug addict. But the dynamic was that of course the child had to embrace what the parents had rejected. And interestingly enough, in one of those "Doesn't life throw you a curve ball sometimes" episodes, this young man eventually shed his frumkeit, and for years after abused drugs, landing in emergency rooms for overdosing on one chemical or another. By that time I was out of touch with him, but I always wondered what his parents thought then about his year of living religiously. In light of his drug problem, did they regret not having supported his religious persona? Pondering that question could make an interesting novel... Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:39:50 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/when-parents-go-countercultural/#PageComment_6151 http://www.bookpod.org/a-foodie-valentine-to-nyc-restaurants/#PageComment_940 Thanks Barbara. Great interview. Lots of information, well structured. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:10:45 -0400 Andrea http://www.bookpod.org/a-foodie-valentine-to-nyc-restaurants/#PageComment_940 http://www.bookpod.org/raising-a-mentally-ill-son/#PageComment_266 All the parents I know say they would do anything for their children. May none of us be tested in the extreme as Randi is. Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:20:36 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/raising-a-mentally-ill-son/#PageComment_266 http://www.bookpod.org/the-transmogrification-of-robert-mugabe/#PageComment_256 Certainly there will be no transmogrification from the Mugabe regime without violence. I am put in mind of the biblical King Saul, who started out as a good guy, the one the people wanted, and who ended up screwing up, losing his mind, and suspecting that everyone wanted his throne. Mugabe as a shepherd reading his books sounds so very appealing. Mugabe slaughtering his people is terrifying. What makes a person go from being what seems to be a decent guy to being so monstrous? Power, perhaps? Tue, 18 May 2010 16:02:04 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/the-transmogrification-of-robert-mugabe/#PageComment_256 http://www.bookpod.org/can-rwanda-forgive-and-forget/#PageComment_53 Thank you for this... I've been thinking a lot about Rwanda lately, and appreciate this interview very much. I'm am ordering his book today! -CC Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:28:32 -0400 Catherine http://www.bookpod.org/can-rwanda-forgive-and-forget/#PageComment_53 http://www.bookpod.org/dancing-out-of-the-night/#PageComment_52 Maria Finn makes me want to rush out, grab a stranger, and learn to dance! Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:59:12 -0400 Pesha http://www.bookpod.org/dancing-out-of-the-night/#PageComment_52 http://www.bookpod.org/an-armenian-from-teaneck-remembers-the-genocide/#PageComment_51 Really interesting interview. It is so unfortunate that certain major genocides in history (especially recent history) get largely forgotten or ignored. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:40:33 -0400 Max Hockley http://www.bookpod.org/an-armenian-from-teaneck-remembers-the-genocide/#PageComment_51 http://www.bookpod.org/finding-the-city-of-no-limits/#PageComment_50 One of my friends already told me about this place and I do not regret that I found this article. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:40:23 -0400 sprawl http://www.bookpod.org/finding-the-city-of-no-limits/#PageComment_50