Jesse Katz's memoir of coaching Little League, "The Opposite Field." Favorite fictional detectives. Obscure French scholars, and how the map they made gave America its name. Captain Sully Sullenberg's "Miracle on the Hudson." And, the publication of an exact facsimile of Carl Jung's "Red Book," complete with Jung's own paintings and calligraphic script.
Opposite field
Fatherhood, divorce and love for the strange and wonderful neighborhoods of Los Angeles run around the bases in Jesse Katz's memoir, "The Opposite Field." The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist talks with us about a challenge even greater than interviewing gang members or smuggling family members into the United States illegally—namely, coaching Little League in Monterey Park.
Guest:
Jesse Katz, author of "The Opposite Field: A Memoir" (Crown). Former LA Times staff writer and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
The greatest fictional detectives
Do great recurring characters in mystery novels you love become old friends? You learn so much about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. In his new book “The Lineup,” author Otto Penzler writes about where some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from.
Guest:
Otto Penzler, Editor of “The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell The Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives,” proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, and the editor of many mystery anthologies, including The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, for which he won an Edgar Award.
The map that gave America its name
The Waldseemuller map is one of the nation’s greatest but least known treasures. Drawn up in 1507, it’s the map that gave America its name and in 2003 the Library of Congress bought the only surviving copy of the map for $10 million, the highest price paid for an historical document. Toby Lester, former editor of “The Atlantic,” joins Larry Mantle to talk about the obscure scholars who created the map in the mountains of Eastern France and how the this map forever changed the way we see the world.
Guest:
Toby Lester, author of "The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the End of the Earth and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name" and contributing editor to “The Atlantic.”
"Miracle on the Hudson" dissected
Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger has been called a hero for his much-lauded “miracle” landing on the Hudson River. Not so fast, says William Langewiesche. The Vanity Fair international correspondent and former commercial pilot claims that Sully's feat would have been impossible without his co-pilot, a quick thinking air traffic controller, and a remarkable plane. He talks with Larry about the human skill and Airbus engineering that made U.S. Airways Flight 1549 a marvel, not a miracle.
Guest:
William Langewiesche, author of "Fly By Wire: The Geese, the Glide, and the Miracle of the Hudson,” international correspondent for Vanity Fair
Carl Jung's mythical Red Book
It’s been called the most influential psychology book that was never published. In 1914, Carl Jung began an effort self-exploration, developing his principle theories such as the collective unconscious and individuation. Over 16 years, Jung put his thoughts and illustrations in "The Red Book", which he transcribed in calligraphic script and filled with his own paintings and ornamental borders. An exact facsimile of "The Red Book" is now available to the public in a $200, folio-size volume. The book's editor and translator Sonu Shamdasani joins Larry Mantle to discuss the work and its long-awaited release.
Guest:
Sonu Shamdasani, editor of "The Red Book" by C.G. Jung. He is Philemon Professor of Jung History at Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College in London.