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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
  • 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​
  • Oscar Arias Sanchez, 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

"Listen to this book, because it talks in a very clear way about what has been silenced." —John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing and winner of the Man Booker Prize

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

--Kirkus, Starred Review 

"The CIA's covert financial support of highbrow art & fiction may seem like a quaint, even endearing, chapter in its otherwise grim history of coups, assassinations, and torture. In Finks, Joel Whitney argues otherwise and shines a discomfiting spotlight on this obscure corner of the cultural Cold War. The result is both an illuminating read and a cautionary tale about the potential costs—political and artistic—of accommodating power."
—Ben Wizner, Director of Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, ACLU
  

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