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We talk with Marianne Williamson about her book, A Politics of Love. Then Rabbi Michael Lerner tells us about his book, Revolutionary Love.

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Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his novel Afterlives. R.F. Kuang tells us about her fantasy/slash/alternate history novel, Babel.

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We talk with Octavio Solis about his short story collection about the southern border, Retablos. And Freya Sampson tells us about her novel The Lost Ticket.

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Bill McKibben talks about his new book, The Flag, The Cross And The Station Wagon. And Sarah Thankam Mathews tells us about her debut novel, All This Could Be Different.

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Dolen Perkins Valdez talks about her novel Take My Hand. Also, rebroadcast of interview with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers about The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.

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Keri Blakinger talks about her powerful prison memoir, Corrections In Ink. Then, Eve Karlin tells us about her historical novel Track 61.

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Mohsin Hamid tells us about his novel The Last White Man & Omar El Akkad on his novel What Strange Paradise.

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Bruce Holsinger tells us about his novel, The Displacements. Then, moral philosopher Elizabeth Cripps talks about her book, What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care.

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We talk to Mary Pipher about A Life In Light: Meditations On Impermanence. And Anita Barros talks with us about her novel, The Language of Birds.

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This is a special edition of Writer’s Voice produced on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Many questions about the terror attacks remain unanswered for the families of the 9/11 victims. They remain unanswered for many other Americans, as well.

We talk with Ray McGinnis about his book, UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored

Why did WTC Building 7 collapse some eight hours after the North and South Towers, despite being a block and a half away and untouched by either of the planes that took the Towers down?

Why did NORAD, charged with keeping America’s skies safe from attack, fail to bring even one of the hijacked planes down — an unprecedented failure for an agency that incessantly practiced just such maneuvers?

Why did the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund specify that the victims’ relatives would lose their benefits if they tried to sue any of the alleged Saudi funders of terrorism related to the attacks? That was just one of the ways that the focus was taken off the Saudi attackers and misplaced onto Saddam Hussein, who had nothing to do with the attacks.

All these questions and many more are explored in Ray McGinnis’ book, ‘UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored.

It’s a detailed account of the FSC, the Family Steering Committee for the Independent 9/11 Commission: the stories of the families, why they created the Commission, what they wanted to know, and how they were stonewalled and stymied in their efforts to get an accounting of the truth.

Kristen Breitweiser, one of the FSC members said “We are going to get to the bottom of this and we are going to make sure someone is held responsible so that nobody else ever had to walk in our shoes.”

Ray McGinnis’ book is a sober, even-handed, meticulous exploration of the questions still outstanding after 20 years.