Off the Page

WSKG's bi-weekly interview & call-in program with local authors from Binghamton, Ithaca, Elmira and surrounding areas served by WSKG Public Radio. Off the Page is hosted by Bill Jaker.

There's an old Yiddish saying, "S'iz shver tsu zayn a Yid" -- "it's tough to be a Jew." Surely any religious discipline is going to make some uncomfortable demands on its adherents to live a moral and respectful life, but in the case of Jews there may also be the...
Change is not necessarily for the better.  Just as it is wrong to equate evolution with "slow", it is also wrong to equate it with "progress".  Evolution doesn't make everything nice.  It results in the full spectrum of outcomes that we associate with good...
Diane Ackerman writes about the inner and outer world and has taken on some enormous topics.  Her books include "Dawn Light", a scientific and poetic appreciation of the first hours of the day; "The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral"; "A Natural History of the Senses",...