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  Bilingual Education Pays Off, New Documentary Says

  Article of interview with filmmaker Marcia Jarmel on her and colleague Ken Schneider's new documentary, "Speaking in Tongues," about bilingual education in America. Features a Vimeo linked preview to the film. From the editor of New America Media: "To date, 30 states have passed English-only laws, and many American[s] are skeptical of bilingual education because they want their children to learn in English, not Chinese or Spanish. 'Speaking in Tongues,' the latest documentary by Bay Area filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider, sheds light on the cognitive and developmental value of learning in two languages at a young age..."

  Tags California, Education, Film and Television, Interview, Language and Linguistics, San Francisco CA, United States
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  Franco-American Writers

  A WERU FM community radio broadcast of readings by two Maine writers, Rhea Côté Robbins and Trudy Chambers Price. Côté Robbins, who introduces her readings with a short talk on violence at home and in the workplace, shares from a work-in-progress entitled, "down the Plains." Chambers Price shares two chapters from her memoir, "The Cows Are Out!: Two Decades on a Maine Dairy Farm" (chapter 12, "A Real Farmer's Tan," and chapter 10, "The Cows Are Out!"). Readings are followed by a discussion with both writers about their lives, their work, and the stories that they and other Franco American women hold.

  Tags Caribou ME, Detroit ME, Dexter ME, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Interview, Maine, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Radio, Violence, Wallagrass ME, Waterville ME
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  Bilingual Education Pays Off, New Documentary Says

  Article of interview with filmmaker Marcia Jarmel on her and colleague Ken Schneider's new documentary, "Speaking in Tongues," about bilingual education in America. Features a Vimeo linked preview to the film. From the editor of New America Media: "To date, 30 states have passed English-only laws, and many American[s] are skeptical of bilingual education because they want their children to learn in English, not Chinese or Spanish. 'Speaking in Tongues,' the latest documentary by Bay Area filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider, sheds light on the cognitive and developmental value of learning in two languages at a young age..."

  Tags California, Education, Film and Television, Interview, Language and Linguistics, San Francisco CA, United States

• The Art of Fiction, No. 199

  Interview with novelist and short story writer, Annie Proulx, about her life, her craft, and her thoughts on writing. Reflections on some of her past works, including the novels "Postcards" and "The Shipping News," as well as the story, "Brokeback Mountain." Her engagement with a wide range of settings and characters, with an emphasis on rural America. Interview conducted at her ranch home in Wyoming.

  Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Gender and Sexuality, Interview, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Literary Works -- Other, Maine, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Vermont, Wyoming

• The Art of Fiction, No. 41

  Transcript of 1968 interview with writer Jack Kerouac in his Florida home, shortly before his death in 1969. Conducted by three visitors - principally, poet Ted Berrigan - and with the participation of Jack's wife, Stella Kerouac. Part of a Paris Review series of author interviews, and featured in a Paris Review published anthology of other interviews with literary figures, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 4th series (1976), edited by George Plimpton. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2659470

  Tags Criticism and Review, Family, Fiction and Literature, Interview, Literary Works -- Other, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, St. Petersburg FL
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  Safe in Heaven Dead : Interviews with Jack Kerouac

  Short compilation of selected, transcribed segments of interviews conducted with Jack Kerouac between 1957 and 1969. Some of Kerouac's thoughts on ancestry, the Beat Generation, literature, his writing, Buddhism, Catholicism, family, and his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. Index of sources where interviews were originally printed.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Family, Fiction and Literature, Interview, Literary Works -- Other, Lowell MA, New York NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion
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  The Art of Fiction, No. 199

  Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Gender and Sexuality, Interview, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Literary Works -- Other, Maine, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Vermont, Wyoming