AuthorTopia

RICK SALUTIN is the author of Gideon's Bible: A Father and Son Discuss God, the Bible and Life.

This is the final episode of Season 1. AuthorTopia will be back in the fall.

Do the stories in the Bible push your buttons?  For Rick and his son Gideon, God and the characters in the Bible trigger a lot of questions… questions about how God behaves, ...

ALEX MESSENGER is the author of THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY:  SURVIVING A GRIZZLY ATTACK IN THE CANADIAN TUNDRA.  It was the trip of a lifetime that Alex says: “Very nearly became the last trip of my lifetime!”   In the summer of his final year of high school, Alex and five buddies took a 600 mile canoe trip into the Arctic Circle.  During a short hike he accidentally crossed paths with a grizzly bear.  The bear attacked, Alex survived, a...

BRADLEY NATHANSON is the author of AMERICAN DEPARTURES:  THE CURIOUS PLIGHT OF A UNIQUELY PRIVILEGED QUIETLY DESPERATE BABY BOOMER. He recalls his days as a young man, when reality seemed far stranger than what he imagined, and what he did imagine never quite matched reality. 
Brad talks to retired TV news producer Frank Silverstein about crawling into an igloo in the Arctic Circle, performing an amazing feat of strength while unde...

MENACHEM KAISER is the author of PLUNDER: A MEMOIR ABOUT FAMILY PROPERTY AND NAZI TREASURE.  Family histories are never simple, and as he discovered, they can be a lot stranger than the cherished bedtime stories told by our elders.    Menachem tells retired news producer Frank Silverstein about how a light-hearted jaunt to his grandfather’s birthplace led him to the raging center of a national controversy in Poland. He explains how...

LAURIE ROSENWALD is the author of “HOW TO MAKE MISTAKES ON PURPOSE” and the forthcoming memoir: “MEMWAH.”  She explains how to make the best of lucky accidents and laugh at all the others.   
Laurie talks to retired tv news producer Frank Silverstein about her remarkable great-grandfather Julius Rosenwald, founder of Sears, who built thousands of schools for African Americans in the Jim Crow South; her grandmother’s decision not to...

ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA is the author of “My What If Year”.  She took a year off from her family and her job to test-drive her dream for a different kind of life.
Alisha talks to former news producer Frank Silverstein about how she reached the age of 40, seemed to have it all with a wonderful husband, two happy children, and a successful business she. Yet, she says, she was desperately unhappy.  She was afraid she’d somehow misse...

STEVEN HELLER is the author of “GROWING UP UNDERGROUND: A Memoir of Counterculture New York”.   He recounts his escapades breaking the rules in the hippie world of writers, artists and underground porno publishers of the 1960s.  

Steve talks to former news producer Frank Silverstein about how his pugnacious adventures irritating authorities led him to become one himself as one of the leading writers and educators in today’s graphic...