David speaks with Bill Arnett, co-founder of Tinwood Media, and African American artist Lonnie Holley. Holley began his artistic life in 1979 by carving tombstones for his sister’s two children who died in a house fire. He used blocks of a soft sandstone-like by-product of metal casting which was discarded in piles by a foundry near his sister’s house. He believes that divine intervention led him to the material and inspired his artwork. Believing he had discovered some of the finest art he had ever seen, Bill Arnett helped bring Holley’s art out of Alabama and into exhibits at the 1996 Olympics, The Smithsonian and museums all around the world.

Original Air Date: 02-17-2011

David speaks with writer Brad Schreiber, co-author of the new biography Becoming Jimi Hendrix which traces back to Hendrix’s early years in Seattle and Memphis, before he was famous.

Original Air Date: 02-7-2011

David speaks with Dr. Lawrence Pintak, the Dean of Communications at Washington State University, about al-Jazeera and its role in Egypt. Before taking his role at Washington State, Pintak was a longtime reporter for CBS in the Middle East. His new book, appropriately released this week, is calledThe New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil.

Original Air Date: 02-2-2011

David speaks with Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and one-time Emory professor, about her new book 15 years in the making: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. The book chronicles the migration of African Americans from the South to new homes and opportunities across the United States.

Original Air Date: 01-3-2011

David speaks with Jacqueline Novogratz author of the The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in An Interconnected World. Novogratz, a former wallstreet banker, is the founder of the Acumen Fund which tries to find an intermediate way between philanthropy and the market system.

Original Air Date: 12-20-2010