Please find below a roundup of this week’s recent articles, media, and essays from PRH Speakers Bureau speakers.
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Media Spotlight
In the News
Our speakers provide clarity and shrewd analysis of today’s issues to help make sense of our current and future political and societal landscape.
- Ibram X Kendi on the Rittenhouse verdict | NPR: Dr. Ibram X Kendi talks about what the verdict means.
- Remote Work Is Failing Young Employees | The New York Times: Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Werzel focus on the challenges of remote work for junior employees.
- The Design Legacy of Covid? It’s All Around You. | The New York Times: Rob Walker discusses how some objects and practices born in lockdown will probably stick around for decades.
- New Virus Variant Stokes Concern but Vaccines Still Likely to Work | The New York Times: Carl Zimmer speaks on the new virus variant.
- Even With Surging Inflation, Here’s Why 2021 Won’t Be Your Most Expensive Thanksgiving Meal Ever | Dover: Jayson Lusk has dug into the numbers and done the math.
- Former Trump attorney released from house arrest | CNN: Alisyn Camerota speaks with Michael Cohen on whether the former president will run for office again in 2024.
Books Connect Us
With their imaginative, impactful pieces of literature, our speakers provide incredibly valuable perspectives to be read by all.
- Tommy Orange is here to hold the door open for future Indigenous writers | NPR: Tommy Orange says it was important to him to pave the way, spotlight and all, for young Indigenous writers.
- Diana Gabaldon answers our burning questions about Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone | Entertainment Weekly: Diana Gabaldon answers why she had such a long gap between books this go-round, how she devised the return of some familiar faces, and what that final time-travel twist means for the saga.
- Likely Stories : Matrix, by Lauren Groff | NPR: Lauren Groff’s MATRIX demonstrates the raw power of female creativity in a corrupt world.
- Rick Bragg: Eating My Words | Garden & Gun: Rick Bragg writes about legendary Southern writers.
- The 2021 Talk of Iowa holiday book guide for kids | Iowa Public Radio: Iowa Public Radio recommends Nicola Yoon, Jane Smiley, and R. J. Palacio.