BMI Executive Director Carol Harter appears on the 11/04/08 edition of KUNV-FM's _Our Metropolis_: a weekly, Las Vegas-focused issues and affairs program hosted by the Greenspun Media Group's John Katsilometes and produced by UNLV's Greenspun College of Urban Affairs journalism and media studies student Sandra Hernandez.

Author and Princeton professor Joyce Carol Oates discusses her career and new novel _My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike_ -- a thinly fictionalized account of the death of JonBenét Ramsey -- on the October 16, 2008 edition of KNPR's 'State of Nevada'. Oates appears Saturday, October 18, 2008 at UNLV as part of the BMI's Fall 2008 lecture season. This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of KNPR's 'State of Nevada' which podcasts many segments of its programs. See www.knpr.org/son/feeds for more information.

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #23: Novelist and Bennett fellow Robert Rosenberg discusses his novel, _This Is Not Civilization_, on the September 29th, 2008 edition KNPR's 'State of Nevada.' This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of KNPR's 'State of Nevada' which podcasts many segments of its programs. See http://www.knpr.org/son/feeds for more information.

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #22: Lebanese novelist and critic Elias Khoury, author of _Gate of the Sun_ and _Yalo_, and Israeli novelist and playwright A.B. Yehoshua, author of _A Woman in Jerusalem_ and _The Lover_, discuss the intractable situation that exists among Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. Although great admirers of one another's work, Khoury and Yehoshua do not necessarily agree politically. Nobel Laureate and BMI Senior Fellow Wole Soyinka moderates. PLEASE NOTE that at certain points during this event, moderator Wole Soyinka's microphone malfunctioned. Any periods of impaired sound during the podcast may be attributed to this technical problem.

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #21: Black Mountain Fellows Tom Bissell, Donna Hemans, and Josip Novakovich discuss writing about places an author doesn't reside and the influence of national identity on the creative imagination. Bissell's acclaimed memoir, _The Father of All Things_, contrasts today's Vietnam with that of the 1970s; Hemans' provocative _River Woman_ shows Jamaica and New York in a fresh perspective; and Novakovich's darkly humorous _April Fool's_ Day paints an absurdist picture of the Balkans since 1948. BMI Associate Director Richard Wiley moderates.

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #20: On the eve of the 2007 CNN Democratic presidential debate held in Las Vegas, Nevada State Senate Minority Leader and UNLV Professor of Political Science Dina Titus leads former CNN news anchor Aaron Brown, _New Yorker_ Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza, and _New Yorker_ staff writer and Iraq correspondent George Packer in a lively examination of election-year politics and the quest for leadership.

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #19: Tom Bissell, Black Mountain Fellow and author of the acclaimed memoir _The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam_, is joined by his father, Marine veteran John Bissell, in a conversation about their 2004 trip to Vietnam to retrace John's tour of duty. BMI Executive Director Carol C. Harter moderates.

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #18: Bennett fellows Donna Hemans, Tom Bissell, and Josip Novakovich discuss their experiences in Las Vegas on the 4/28/08 edition of KNPR's "State of Nevada" program. (This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of "KNPR's State of Nevada" which podcasts many segments of its programs. See http://www.knpr.org/son/feeds for more information.)

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #17: In advance of the BMI's "Imagination in Exile" (4/2/08) panel event, writer and Bennett fellow Josip Novakovich discusses his work and native Croatia on the 4/2/08 edition of KNPR's "State of Nevada" program. (This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of "KNPR's State of Nevada" which podcasts many segments of its programs. See http://www.knpr.org/son/feeds for more information.)

Black Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #16: Audio from the Derek Walcott reading held 4/19/07 at UNLV in Las Vegas, NV. For more information on the event, visit: http://blackmountaininstitute.org/news-and-events/events-archive/2006-07/walcott/