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INTERVIEWS

 
  • Interviewed Hemingway filmmakers Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein at Brooklyn Public Library for LitFilm, September 2021
  • Interviewed MLK/FBI and August Wilson director Sam Pollard at Brooklyn Public Library (Virtual) for LitFilm, September 2021
  • Introduced Edward Snowden, ACLU's At Liberty Podcast Live at Brooklyn Public Library, September 19, 2019
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen, for the National Book Foundation website, November 15, 2016
  • Geoff Dyer, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, May 12, 2016
  • Seymour Hersh, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, April 25, 2016
  • Orhan Pamuk, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, November 11, 2015 (response/recap here)
  • Salman Rushdie, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, October 18, 2015 (response here)
  • David Talbot, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, October 2015
  • Margo Jefferson, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, October 6, 2015
  • Jennifer Jacquet, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, February 28, 2015
  • Suki Kim, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, December 14, 2014
  • James Risen, Live at Brooklyn Public Library, November 1, 2014
  • john a. powell, Spirituality & Health, March 2014
  • Tom Goldtooth, Spirituality & Health, March 2014
  • Mark Dowie, The Sun, August 2013
  • W.S. Merwin in Maui (part 2), Guernica, February 2011
  • Zoya Phan, Guernica, January 2011
  • "The Garden & the Sword": W.S. Merwin in Maui (part 1), Tricycle, Winter 2010
  • Thant Myint-U, Guernica, December 2010
  • Deeyah, Guernica, December 2010
  • Tariq Ali, Live at Asia Society, Guernica, October 2010
  • Morten Pedersen, Guernica, June 2010
  • Paul Berman, Guernica, May 2010
  • Noam Chomsky, Guernica, November 2009
  • Lila Downs, Guernica, October 2009
  • Fatima Bhutto, Guernica, July 2009
  • Mahmood Mamdani, Guernica, May 2009
  • Luis Moreno Ocampo, Guernica, March 2009
  • David Frum, Guernica, January 2009
  • Bernard-Henri Levy, Guernica, November 2008
  • John Agnew, Guernica, November 2008
  • Joseph Nye, Guernica, October 2008
  • Mia Farrow, Guernica, July 2007
  • Ali Allawi, Guernica, April 2007
  • Stephen Kinzer, Guernica, March 2007
  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Guernica, February 2007
  • George Saunders, Guernica, August 2006
  • Billy Collins, Guernica, June 2006
  • Congressman John Conyers, Guernica, May 2006
  • Francis Fukuyama, San Francisco Chronicle, May 2006
  • Eric Reeves, Guernica, February 2006
  • Mark Crispin Miller, Guernica, February 2006
  • Norman Solomon, Guernica, January 2006
  • John Yoo, Guernica, December 2005
  • Sally Potter, Guernica, October 2005
  • Andrew Patel, New York Magazine, October 2005
  • Russell Banks, Guernica, September 2005
  • Yaroslav Trofimov, Guernica, August 2005
  • Jenny Martinez, San Francisco Chronicle, August 2005
  • Donna Newman, Guernica, August, 2005
  • Jonathan Safran Foer, Guernica, August, 2005
  • Nick Kristof, Guernica, August, 2005
  • Samantha Power, Guernica, May 2005​
  • President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, Guernica, May 2005
  • William Schulz, Guernica, January 2005
  • Edith Grossman, Guernica, January 2005
  • Stephen Dunn, Guernica, October 2004
  • Howard Zinn, Guernica, October 2004
  • Chase Twichell, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Fall 2003

PRAISE FOR FINKS

"Listen to this book, because it talks in a very clear way about what has been silenced." —John Berger

"Another odd episode steps out from the Cold War's shadows. Riveting."

--Kirkus, Starred Review 

"[Finks] is both an illuminating read and a cautionary tale about the potential costs—political and artistic—of accommodating power."
—Ben Wizner, ACLU
  

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