Midmorning Weekend
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Midmorning Weekend revisits some of the best recent conversations from the daily call-in program.
Segment 1: Mary Karr on alcoholism, sobriety, and finding religion
Mary Karr has described the writing her first memoir, "The Liar's Club" as a scalding experience. Her third and latest memoir talks about her burning need for sobriety and belief in God.
Segment 2: Tales from a socialist childhood
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He grew up with the idea that the workers of America would one day rise up, overthrow capitalism, and create a new socialist society. His mother described it as a place where "all skateboards will be free." But author Said Sayrafiezadeh says all he really wanted was to be an average American kid.
Segment 3: Mental illness, seen through the eyes of a child
Author Laura Flynn writes of her at times luminous, at times agonizing experiences growing up with a mother going gradually insane. Her new book is called "Swallow the Ocean."
Flynn's mother suffered from schizophrenia at a time when the disease was not as well known, and authorities were reluctant to split children from their mothers.
