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NBN Episodes hosted by Jerry:

Hillary Chute, "Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form" (Harvard UP, 2016)

March 14, 2016

Disaster Drawn

Hillary Chute
Hosted by Jerry Lembcke

In her new book Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form (Harvard UP, 2016), Hillary Chute analyses the documentary power in the c…

Michael Schwalbe, "Rigging The Game: How Inequality is Reproduced in Everyday Life" (Oxford UP, 2014)

January 28, 2016

Rigging The Game

Michael Schwalbe
Hosted by Jerry Lembcke

In his new book Rigging The Game: How Inequality is Reproduced in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2014), Michael Schwalbe identifies the roots…

Lynn Chancer and John Andrews, "The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014)

February 12, 2015

The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis

Lynn Chancer and John Andrews
Hosted by Jerry Lembcke

The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014)is an edited volume. Its chapt…

Paul Loeb, "The Impossible Will Take a Little While" (Basic Books, 2014)

November 18, 2014

The Impossible Will Take a Little While

Paul Loeb
Hosted by Jerry Lembcke

Paul Loeb is well known in sociology as the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times, and for the previous edition of …

James W. Russell, "Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2014)

May 20, 2014

Social Insecurity

James W. Russell
Hosted by Jerry Lembcke

Jim Russell is a sociologist and it was his encounter with the hidden realities of his own 401(k) retirement plan that touched off his crusade to demy…

Leah Hager Cohen, "No Book But the World" (Riverhead Books, 2014)

May 20, 2014

No Book But the World

Leah Hager Cohen
Hosted by Jerry Lembcke

Works of fiction sometimes offer unique windows on society, and so it is with Leah Hager Cohen's novel No Book but the World (Riverhead, 2014). The st…