Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Gail Collins on women and history
  New York Times columnist Gail Collins profiles women who lived through perhaps the most transformative time in history, from the 1960s until the present. This is when more women achieved success in politics, sports and the working world than ever before. Collins talked with Kerri Miller before an audience at MPR's UBS Forum on October 15.9:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Gail Collins: Author of the new book "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present." She was the first female editor of the editorial board of the New York Times, where she is now an op-ed columnist.
  More from MPR
  Report: more men unemployed than women (07/28/2009)
  A new generation of Hmong women pursues college (09/24/2009)
  Minneapolis asst. police chief nominated for U.S. Marshal (10/13/2009)
  Resources
  About Gail Collins
  NPR: Review and excerpt from "When Everything Changed"
• The word guru
  University of Minnesota etymology expert Anatoly Liberman joins Midmorning to talk about odd spellings, and the words we love just a little too much.10:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Anatoly Liberman: Professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. His latest book, "An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology," came out in March.
  Resources
  About Anatoly Liberman
  Interview with Liberman
  Liberman's blog

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  The new season of Talking Volumes welcomes Barbara Kingsolver on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m.
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