Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 9:54AM An American Living in France (B&I 10)
Guillestre in the French Alps
Show Notes
Make sure you got Episode 10 because episode 1 was accidentally uploaded. It was only up a few minutes but if you got the wrong episode please note that this has been corrected.
This episode of Books and Ideas is a conversation with writer Kirk McElhearn , a native New Yorker, who has lived in France for over 20 years. We talk about the challenges of learning a second language, and what it is like to live in France after 9/11. McElhearn is able to bring some interesting historical perspective to current events. Unfortunately there is some echo in the second half of this interview, which was recorded using Skype™ and Audio Hijack Pro™.
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Kirkville is Kirk McElhearn's excellent blog where you can find Mac™ and iTunes™ hints, as well as commentary on books and digital music.
Here is a list of his books from Amazon.com
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara This is an excellent novel that I talked about briefly on an earlier podcast. It is also available in audio download format from Audible.com. Kirk said he has this book coming from BookMooch.
BookMooch started by the founder of Magnatune, this is a great place to exchange books
Reader Comments (3)
Ginger,
My iPod is working its way backwards through episodes I haven't listened to before and I just heard "An American Living in France". Towards the end your said "we'd better wrap it up as I think most listeners don't want more than half an hour. I don't know if I'm representative but when the conversation is interesting I just lap it up and want the show to go on and on.
Always looking forward to the next episode.
David.
As fans of the Brain Science Podcast know, my typical podcast are now about an hour long. This is mostly thanks to feedback from listeners like David.
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