Ben Miller returned to the program to discuss a book written by Dorothy James that he edited; Full of Hunger and Full of Bread. The World of Jura Soyfer 1912-1939. Jura Soyfer was living in Austria during the 1930's as the fascists were on the rise. Soyfer was active in the resistance movement and he ended up paying a steep price for his activism; he died in a German concentration camp. He left behind a significant body of work; poetry, plays, songs, and an unpublished novel.
Ben Miller first appeared on the program in 2013 to talk about his memoir River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll Amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa. Since then he's been working on a lot of different projects including a second volume of his memoirs. During this interview we discussed some of those projects and Ben mentioned that he has a book coming out next year that he wrote during the Covid pandemic. He's one of my favorite writers-I'm looking forward to having him back on the program when that book gets published.
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