As part of WBAI’s special day of programming in remembrance of the events 10 years ago on September 11, arts program The Next Hour will feature the award-winning short story “There’s a Hole in the City,” read by the author, Richard Bowes. Led by guest host Jim Freund, the reading will be followed by an interview with Rick Bowes and the preeminent expert on contemporary terrorism’s effects upon individuals, Dr. Charles B. Strozier, author of Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City.
The Next Hour is broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City, and streams at http://stream.wbai.org. An archive of the broadcast will be available on-demand for 2 weeks after 9/11 at http://archive.wbai.org.
Background:
Richard Bowes has published five novels, two collections of short fiction and over fifty stories. His work has won two World Fantasy Awards and the Lambda Award. He has just completed his latest novel Dust Devil: My Life in Speculative Fiction. The story "There's A Hole in the City" was written and published online at Ellen Datlow's SciFiction in 2005 when 9/11 was far enough in the background for him to look at. The story was nominated for a Nebula Award and won the International Horror Guild and Million Writers Awards. It's been anthologized several times and translated into German and Japanese.Rick has lived for most of his life in Manhattan. Many of his recent stories take place downtown in the
Greenwich Village and East Village of his youth, places that have changed drastically over the past forty years but that live on, forever memorialized by Bowes’ vivid imagination. His Web site is located at RickBowes.com.
Charles B. Strozier is a professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is also a practicing psychoanalyst and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP) in New York. Much of his work has focused on apocalyptic violence and related issues of terrorism, including his current study, Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses
(Columbia University Press, August, 2011). 
Jim Freund has produced radio programs of and about literary sf/f since 1967 when he began working at New York City’s WBAI at age 13. His long-running live radio program, “Hour of the Wolf,” continues to be broadcast Wednesday night/Thursday mornings from 1:30 - 3:00 AM, and is streamed live on the web. Over the years he has produced myriad radio dramas, interviews and readings. While he specializes in presenting the author's voice, Jim is also known for his own performances of short fiction. His work in broadcasting has been twice nominated and once a winner of the Major Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Production. Jim is currently Producer and Executive Curator of The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings. His Web site is at hourwolf.com
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