by Michael Shapiro | Jul 27, 2011 | Featured, Interviews, Stories, Travel
In 2007 I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Jane Goodall. Excerpts from that interview have appeared O (Oprah’s magazine), The Explorer’s Journal and Earth Island Journal. Here’s the Goodall interview from EIJ, click to read it or see the text...
by Michael Shapiro | Jul 27, 2011 | Interviews, Literature, Stories
David Sedaris is not a rock star. He’s an author, radio contributor, humorist, playwright, and essayist. Yet when he walks onstage Saturday night , October 30, at the Wells Fargo Center, he’ll be greeted with as much effusive enthusiasm as any heartthrob...
by Michael Shapiro | Jul 27, 2011 | Stories
“Trying to interview Dervla Murphy is like trying to open an oyster … with a wet bus ticket.” That line came from the 2010 documentary, Who is Dervla Murphy, about the intrepid Irish travel writer. In 2003, I’d hoped to go to Ireland to interview the...
by Michael Shapiro | Aug 15, 2004 | Books, Literature, Past Events, Stories
Shapiro's BookTV panel discussion with Isabel Allende, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris and Jeff Greenwald For the book launch of A Sense of Place, I set up a panel discussion with four of the leading literary lights of our time: Isabel Allende, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris, and Jeff...
by Michael Shapiro | Mar 3, 2011 | Blog, Stories
The football star–turned–soldier became the Pentagon’s poster boy, and when he was shot dead by U.S. Army Rangers, the military said he was killed by enemy fire. The deception, it turns out, was not an isolated incident, but part of a pattern of keeping the...
by Michael Shapiro | Apr 8, 2010 | Stories
When President Nixon visited China in 1972, he said that it takes a great people to build a Great Wall. In Mongolia they countered: It takes an even greater people to make them want to build it. That warrior pride is on full display at the Naadam festival. Read the...
