'The Most Important Year,' Poetry on Your Commute, A Retelling of Appalachian History

Suzanne Bouffard discusses her book The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children. Novelist Pia de Jong talks about her book Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition. Alice Quinn, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, discusses her book The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses. Steven Stoll, a professor of history at Fordham University, talks about his book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia.  

This episode is guest hosted by Mary Harris. It originally aired on January 2, 2018.