Frances Anderton is the host of DnA: Design and Architecture, aired monthly on 89.9 KCRW and KCRW.com. She is producer of KCRW’s national and local current affairs shows, To The Point, and Which Way, LA?, both hosted by Warren Olney. Anderton is also an L.A. Editor for Dwell Magazine and a contributor to Huffington Post. Before interviewing architect Michael Maltzan for Zócalo, Anderton sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.
William Dalrymple is the author of several prize-winning travel books and histories. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. Dalrymple is also author of The Age of Kali, White Mughals, and The Last Mughal. He lives on a farm outside Delhi with his wife and three children. Before he delivered a talk on his latest book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, he sat down for our Green Room Q&A.
Peter Beinart is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and a Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast. He is author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals – And Only Liberals – Can Win the War on Terror and most recently of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris. Before he took the stage to talk about the limits of American power, he sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.
Benjamin Schwarz is literary editor and national editor of The Atlantic. Born in New York City and raised around the country, Schwarz has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and The Nation. Before he interviewed Peter Beinart about the limits of American power, Schwarz sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.
Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, was born and raised in Chicago, “six blocks from Wrigley Field.” His political roots in the city go far back. “My mother was the first woman ever elected to public office in Cook County, in 1972,” Alter said. Below, Alter, who has worked spent 27 years covering politics for Newsweek, tells us more about himself.
