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2020: #2512 – 1/10/2020 Former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios Marcia Franklin talks with former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios about her mission to honor American women in history. Her efforts include the attempt to put a woman on U.S. Federal Reserve notes for the first time. After a public process, the Department of the Treasury chose Harriet Tubman to appear on the $20 bill. That project is now stalled, but Rios, who served in office from 2009-2016, has developed Notable Women, which allows users through virtual reality to superimpose an image of a famous woman in history onto a bill. Rios is also working on a women’s history curriculum in schools, and is spearheading a project to honor more women in history with statues in major cities around the country. #2511 - 1/03/2020 “The Feather Thief” Marcia Franklin talks with author Kirk Wallace Johnson about his book The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. The book details Johnson’s investigation into a major theft of 300 rare bird skins from a British museum in 2009 by a 20- year-old American, Edward Rist. Rist then illegally sold the feathers into the arcane world of Victorian salmon fly-tyers. Johnson discusses why he felt it was important to write the book, and how the crime and other heists like it damage the field of natural history. He also shares his thoughts on the “feather thief,” whom he interviewed. The founder of The List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, Johnson worked in Fallujah, Iraq, for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He wrote a book about his experiences called To Be a Friend Is Fatal. His third book, “The Fisherman and the Dragon: Two Dreams at War off the Texas Coast,” will be published in 2021. He was in Boise to speak at The Rediscovered Bookshop. 2019: #2510 – 12/27/2019 Author Pete Fromm Montana author Pete Fromm joins host Marcia Franklin to talk about his latest book, A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do. The novel tells the story of a young man who has to raise his child when his wife dies in childbirth. 1 Fromm talks about how he developed the story, as well as his writing style. The two also discuss the success he’s had with his books in France. Fromm also reminisces about the seven months he lived in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho, which he recounted in his award-winning memoir, Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness. A five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award, Fromm is the author of five novels and five collections of short stories, including The Names of the Stars, a follow-up to Indian Creek Chronicles, and As Cool As I Am, which was made into a movie starring Clare Danes. He also teaches in the low-residency MFA writing program at the Pacific University Oregon. He was in Boise to speak at the Rediscovered Bookshop. #2509 12/20/2019 Poet Richard Blanco In this Dialogue, poet Richard Blanco talks with host Marcia Franklin. Blanco, who composed a poem for President Obama’s second inaugural and read it at the ceremony, is the first Latino and first openly gay person to be an inaugural poet. He talks with Franklin about the process of writing the inaugural poem, “One Today,” how the piece reflected his life and his philosophy of writing, and how the experience changed his life. The two also discuss the power of poetry to bridge divides between people and within oneself. Blanco was the keynote speaker at the 2019 Idaho Humanities Council’s Distinguished Humanities Lecture. #2508 – 12/13/2019 “American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl” Host Marcia Franklin interviews Michael Ames, the co-author of American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan. Ames, a former reporter for the Idaho Mountain Express and Sun Valley Magazine, became fascinated with the story of Bowe Bergdahl, an U.S. Army soldier who grew up in Hailey, Idaho, who was captured by the Taliban and held for five years. Ames and co-author Matt Farwell take a deeper look into Bergdahl’s life and the politics surrounding the search for him and his eventual release. Franklin talks with Ames about his conclusions and why he felt it was important to write the book. 2 #2507 – 12/06/2019 “Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui” Host Marcia Franklin talks with Holly Yasui, Minoru’s daughter, who has produced a documentary about her father’s life called “Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice,” which aired on public television stations, including Idaho Public Television. Minoru Yasui, an attorney, intentionally violated a curfew order for people of Japanese descent in Portland that was put in place after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was found guilty, and on appeal, his case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which upheld the conviction. Yasui was also incarcerated in the Minidoka War Relocation Center in south-central Idaho. In the conversation, Yasui talks about why she wanted to make the film about her father and reflects on why she thinks the documentary is particularly relevant today. Yasui and Franklin also discuss why many in the Japanese-American community believe the internment facilities should be called “concentration camps.” In 1983, a federal court vacated Minoru Yasui’s conviction, and in 2015, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Yasui the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. #2506 – 11/29/2019: Author Barry Lopez, Part Two: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference In the second of a two-part interview with acclaimed author and world traveler Barry Lopez, Dialogue host Marcia Franklin continues her conversation with the National Book Award-winner about his newest book, Horizon. The memoir is both a look back at six regions of the world Lopez has written about, and a meditation on his concerns and hopes for the planet. Lopez also talks about one of his next projects, and shares an experience that dramatically affected his life. The interview was recorded at the 2019 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. The author of more than 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, Lopez won the National Book Award in 1986 for Arctic Dreams. Of Wolves and Men, his seminal work on the complicated relationship between humans and wolves, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1980. The first part of the conversation aired on November 22, 2019. Both programs can be streamed here. All of Franklin’s interviews conducted at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference since 2005 can be streamed here. 3 #2505 – 11/22/2019 Author Barry Lopez, Part One: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference In the first of a two-part interview with acclaimed author Barry Lopez, Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with the National Book Award-winner about his newest book, “Horizon.” The sprawling memoir is both a look back at six regions of the world Lopez has written about, and a meditation on his concerns and hopes for the planet. Lopez, the author of more than 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, won the National Book Award in 1986 for “Arctic Dreams.” “Of Wolves and Men,” his seminal work on the complicated relationship between humans and wolves, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1980. Franklin talks with Lopez about his philosophy of writing, why he wanted to write “Horizon,” and his thoughts on global travel in an era of concern about climate change. The conversation was recorded at the 2019 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Franklin’s interviews conducted at that event since 2005 can be streamed here. #2504 – 11/15/2019 Author Brando Skyhorse: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Host Marcia Franklin talks with author and Indiana University Bloomington associate professor Brando Skyhorse about his personal journey and how writing has allowed him to explore it. Skyhorse grew up believing he was the son of an activist in the American Indian movement. As a teenager, he learned that his biological father had been born in Mexico. He graduated from Stanford University and went on to earn a Master’s of Fine Arts in Writing, while still “passing” as Native American. Skyhorse finally confronted his own story in a memoir called Take This Man, in which he tries to understand why his mother pretended that the two of them were Native American, and how that — along with abuse he suffered — affected his life. The author also delves into the personalities of the five men he called “father,” and a discovery that changed his life forever. The conversation was recorded at the 2019 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Franklin’s interviews conducted at that event since 2005 can be streamed here. 4 #2503 – 11/08/2019 Historian Joanne Freeman: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Marcia Franklin talks with historian Joanne Freeman about her latest book, The Field of Blood. In the book, Freeman, a professor of history at Yale University, shows how the U.S. Congress before the Civil War was a more violent body than originally thought. Freeman talks with Franklin about how she researched the book and whether her findings are applicable to the current political climate. She also discusses the value of studying history, and the focus of her next book on Alexander Hamilton. Freeman edited the Hamilton papers for a previous book, and was also featured in the PBS documentary “Hamilton’s America.” The conversation was recorded at the 2019 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.