Saturday, December 09, 2006

Second Saturday Magazine

10 a.m. - Bob Johnson - Second Saturday Magazine Second Saturday Magazine will have a guest co-host, WDRC's Marianne O'Hare. 10:00 AM Jonathan Kircsh talks about his new book "A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization." Jonathan Kirsch explores the ways the Book of Revelation has been interpreted since its inception and how the final book of the New Testament has influenced literature, history and popular culture. 10:30 AM Special Education expert and author Richard Lavoie discusses social intelligence and how there are simple-to-learn techniques that can help the overwhelmed parents and teachers of students with learning disabilities. His new book is called "It Is So Much Work to be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success." 12:30 PM Interview with author/journalist Charles Clover. With his multi-award winning book "End of the Line," he explores the dire environmental impact associated with the overfishing of Earth's oceans. 1:00 PM Our guest is HBO filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. Greenfield's fly-on-the-wall study of four young clients of the Renfrew Center, a Florida facility for young women with eating disorders is called "Thin." Variety says "It is in part an indictment of U.S. health care part graphic condemnation of our culture's obsession with thinness, pic makes its case by neither exploiting its subjects nor soft-pedaling their plight." The companion book is published by Chronicle. 1:30 PM Authors David Weisman and Melissa Painter talk about their photo journal biography "Edie: Girl on Fire." Edie Sedgwick, 'It' girl of Andy Warhol's infamous '60s Factory scene, is the 'It' girl of the new millennium, inspiring fashion, books, movies and on-line communities. Technorati tags: , , , , ,