The striking cover image for "Pills and Starships", a young adult novel by Lydia Millet
Featured on the May 30th, 2014 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
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Trauma surgeon Dr. Peter Rhee was thrust into the national spotlight in 2011 after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 18 others in Tucson. Amanda Le Claire talks with Rhee about his new book Trauma Red, that details his life as a young immigrant to the U.S., and the rising national need for trauma surgeons due to the increase in gun violence....
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Meet musician Tony Furtado, a multi-instrumentalist who has become a standard-bearer for traditional American music styles from blues to bluegrass. Mark McLemore talks with Furtado about his latest live album, and his upcoming visit to Tucson...
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Sound Fiction presents author Lydia Millet reading from her newest young adult novel Pills and Starships, a portrait of life in a future world dominated by pharmaceuticals, global warming, and making plans for one's own carefully arranged demise...
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And, Debi Chess Mabie tells why she feels a special connection with Maya Angelou's poem Phenomenal Woman...
Listen to Arizona Spotlight for May 30th, 2014:
ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT airs every Friday at 8:30 am and 6:00 pm, and every Saturday at 5:00 pm, on NPR 89.1 FM / 1550 AM.
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