`In this episode, writer, actor, and performance artist M. Leona Godin joins host Catherine Nichols to discuss Helen Keller's 1908 book The World I Live In. Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an American author, lecturer, vaudeville performer, and political activist. At nineteen months, she suffered an illness that left her deaf and blind; The World I Live In offers Keller's remarkable insight of the world as perceived through three senses.

M. Leona Godin, is a performance artist, actor and writer with a PhD in literature. She has written a play, "The Star of Happiness," about Helen Keller's vaudeville years, and another on the invention of Braille. Godin's first book, There Plant Eyes, is a personal and cultural history of blindness. She is also, among many other things, the founding editor of Aromatica Poetica, an online magazine exploring the arts & sciences of smell & taste.

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