The Halli Casser-Jayne Show

Sunday, November 2, 8 pm ET, the life and legend that is John Wayne is the subject of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show when Halli welcomes to her table acclaimed bestselling Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman. Eyman’s new book on the Hollywood icon JOHN WAYNE, THE LIFEAND LEGEND is a New York Time’s bestseller. With his new engaging, revealing and fully rounded portrait of one of America’s most enduring and controversial film icons in JOHN WAYNE: THE LIFEAND LEGEND, Scott Eyman colorfully chronicles the life of the one of America’s most enduring and controversial film icons, drawing on unpublished materials, exhaustive research, and more that a hundred interviews with Wayne and many of his closest colleagues, friends, and family members. Scott Eyman has written eleven books, including, with veteran actor Robert Wagner, the New York Times bestseller PIECES OF MY HEART. Among his other titles are EMPIRE OF DREAMS: THE EPICLIFE OF CECIL B. DEMILLE, winner of the 2011 Richard Wall Memorial Book Award: LION OF HOLLYWOOD: THE LIFEAND LEGEND OF LOUIS B. MAYER; PRINT THE LEGEND: THE LIFEAND TIMES OF JOHN FORD. The life of Hollywood legend John Wayne, Sunday, November 2, 8 pm ET on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, always bringing you Talk Radio for Fine Minds. Tune in live online at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Travel with The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, October 29, 3 pm ET when Halli takes you on a tour of Cuba. Joining Halli at her table are photography collector Ramiro A. Fernandez; Cuban immigrant Cecilia M. Fernandez; food blogger and author Ana Sophia Pelaez; writer, photographer, dissident and author Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo; and Caribbean design expert and historian and author Michael Connors. Ramiro A. Fernandez’s CUBA THEN: RARE AND CLASSIC IMAGES FROM THE RAMIRO A. FERNANDEZ COLLECTION offers a celebration of the intensely colorful culture that was the pre-Castro Cuba,  a dynamic collage of images, experiences and memories that presents the glamour and the grit of the island’s tumultuous history. Cecilia M. Fernandez tells the story of growing up a Cuban refugee in her heart wrenching memoir LEAVING LITTLE HAVANA: A MEMOIR OF MIAMI’S CUBAN GHETTO. Ana Sophia Pelaez was raised in Miami and transplanted to New York. Her blog Hungry Sophia catapulted her to culinary fame. With photographer Ellen Silverman, her new book THE CUBAN TABLE is a visual as well a gastronomic pleasure. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo was born and raised under the thumb of the Castro Regime in Havana, Cuba. After obtaining a degree in biochemistry, he began to voice his differences with the government founding VOCES, a dissident e-magazine. He won awards for his book BORING HOME, banned in Cuba. He currently is a Visiting Fellow at the International Writers Project, Department of Literary Arts, Brown University. He is the editor of CUBA IN SPLINTERS, ELEVEN STORIES FROM THE NEW CUBA and the photographer of AVANDONED HAVANA. Caribbean design expert and historian Michael Connors takes readers on an unprecedented tour of some of the most architecturally significant private homes and buildings that remain in Cuba in his new book HAVANA MODERN: 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIORS.  

He is known as ‘The Killer,’ and he changed music as we know it. His name: Jerry Lee Lewis. In a special edition of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Sunday, October 26, 8 pm ET we will take a look at the life and times of Jerry Lee Lewis. Joining Halli at her table is one of the great Southern storytellers of our time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, whose new book JERRY LEE LEWIS, HIS OWN STORY officially launches October 28. Interviewing the seminal musician over the course of two summers, Bragg recreates the almost impossible to believe story of the hell-raising Southern boy who would galvanize the world and give the devil’s edge to rock and roll with songs like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire.” Together Bragg and Lewis have created an amazing biography of the music legend: JERRY LEE LEWIS: HIS OWN STORY for this groundbreaking new book. Bragg is the author of the New York Times bestsellers ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN’, AVA’S MAN, THE PRINCE OF FROGTOWN, and I AM A SOLDIER, TOO: THE JESSICA LYNCH STORY. He has twice won the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and more than fifty writing awards in his career. He is currently a professor of writing at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.   Jerry Lee Lewis helped define the wild frontier of rock and roll. His most recent albums, Last Man Standing (2006) and Mean Old Man (2010), were his most successful in thirty years. Still performing today, The Killer recently opened Jerry Lee Lewis’s Cafe and Honky Tonk on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Jerry Lee Lewis biographer, Rick Bragg, Sunday, October 26, 8 pm ET on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show,Talk Radio for Fine Minds. Tune in live online at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

We’re taking a look at ideas Wednesday, October 22 at 3 pm ET on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds when Halli brings you two of the great intellects of our time. Joining Halli at her table is Steven Johnson, widely regarded as one of the world’s most perceptive and thought-provoking thinkers on new media and the evolution of information technology author of the new book and PBS TV series, HOW WE GOT TO NOW. And Barbara Erenreich, author of a provocative new memoir LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, A NONBELIEVER’S SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT EVERYTHING Steven Johnson is the author of the bestsellers including WHERE GOOD IDEAS COMR FROM, THE INVENTION OF AIR, THE GHOST MAP, EVERYTHING BAD IS GOOD FOR YOU, MIND WIDE OPEN. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites and writes for Time, Wired, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Barbara Ehrenreich is an American writer and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. She has authored 21 books, perhaps best known for her 2001 book NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA, a memoir of Ehrenreich's three-month experiment surviving on minimum wage. The New York Times bestselling author’s latest book is LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, A NONBELIEVER'S SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT EVERYTHING a brave, frank, honest, and exquisitely written memoir that is sure to rattle your world.  Steven Johnson, Barbara Erenreich two of the thought-leaders of our day Wednesday, October 22, 3 pm ET on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show bringing you Talk Radio for Fine Minds. Tune in live online at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Laughter comes to The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday October 15, 3 pm ET when Halli brings you two of the funniest people on the planet. Joining Halli is esteemed director and author John Waters and Seinfeld writer and author Peter Mehlman. John Waters is an American filmmaker, actor, writer and visual artist best known for his cult films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Cecil B. DeMented. He is also the author of ROLE MODELS, CRACKPOT and SHOCK VALUE. His new book CARSICK tells the hilarious story of  America’s most beloved eccentric’s mid-life crisis journey: a cross-country hitchhiking journey. Peter Mehlman began his career at the Washington Post. He slid to television in 1982, writing for SportsBeat with Howard Cossell. He has written for numerous national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, and a multitude of women’s magazines. One year after moving to Los Angeles he ran into Seinfeld writer and producer Larry David, which led to Mehlman’s writing the first freelance episode of the popular TV Show, rose to executive producer and coined such phrases as “yada yada” and “double dipping.” His new novel IT WON’T ALWAYS BE THIS GREAT is a brilliantly funny story of the mid-life crisis of a Long Island podiatrist that begins on a sub-zero, wind-chilled Friday night when the podiatrist crosses paths with a bottle of horseradish. We could all do with a dose of laughter. Laugh yourselves silly, Wednesday, October 15, 3 pm ET on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show when Halli talks with John Waters and Peter Mehlman. We are Talk Radio for Fine Minds and Lovers of Humor. Tune in live online at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Two women, two memoirs, two extraordinary lives-the subjects of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, Wednesday, October 8, 3 pm ET when Halli is joined at her table by award-winning writers Elizabeth Nunez author of NOT FOR EVERDAY USE and Joanna Rakoff author of MY SALINGER YEARS. Elizabeth Nunez, PhD, immigrated to the US from Trinidad after completing high school. She is the award-winning author of eight novels, four of them selected as New York Times Editors choice, among her books BOUNDARIES, nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction and ANNA IN-BETWEEN awarded the PEN Oakland Award. Nunez is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches fiction writing. Her latest book, the memoir NOT FOR EVERYDAY USE is an astonishing achievement. Tracing the four days from the moment she gets the call that every immigrant fears to the burial of her mother, Nunez tells the haunting story of her lifelong struggle to cope with the consequences of the “sterner stuff” of her parents’ ambitions for their children, and her mother’s seemingly unbreakable conviction that displays of affection are not for everyday use. Joanna Rakoff’s novel A FORTUNATE AGE won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers and the Elle Readers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle best seller. She has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and other publications. Hailed by critics, Rakoff’s new memoir, MY SALINGER YEAR, is a poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny coming of age story of a girl who at twenty-three, after leaving graduate school, dared to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet. A move to New York City, a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger, a love affair -- well, sort of -- Joanna Rakoff’s book MY SALINGER YEAR brillia

Wednesday, October 1, 3 pm ET The Halli Casser-Jayne Show takes an in-depth look at the careers of three women who changed the trajectory of television news: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour the subject of journalist Sheila Weller’s fascinating new book THE NEWS SORORITY, DIANE SAWYER, KATIE COURIC, CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR – AND THE (ONGOING, IMPERFECT, COMPLICATED) TRIUMPH OF WOMEN IN TV NEWS, Weller, the guest for the hour. Journalist Sheila Weller forged her career with her scintillating true life tales drawn directly from the news.  She is the author of seven books  - three of which are New York Times bestsellers - including GIRLS LIKE US: CAROLE KING, JONI MITCHELL, CARLY SIMON – AND THE JOURNEY OF A GENERATION, the book that made headlines presenting an insightful and detailed portrayal of music's three most trailblazing and beloved singer-songwriters borne in the stultifying 1950s, coming of age in the turbulent Sixties -- three women who brilliantly rode the second-wave of feminism.  Weller has covered domestic abuse, upscale marriages, wife killing, and secret rapes in storybook communities, as well as her own family's halcyon life and the tragic demise of the premiere Hollywood nightclub they owned in her acclaimed memoir DANCING AT CIRO’S. A Contributing Editor at Glamour, a writer for Vanity Fair, the New York Times Book Review Weller she is respected among her peers for her comprehensive, evocative investigative writing about all aspects of women's lives and issues.  Her latest book THE NEWS SORORITY, DIANE SAWYER, KATIE COURIC, CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR – AND THE ONGOING, IMPERFECT, COMPLICATED TRIUMPH OF WOMEN IN TV NEWS does not disappoint. Journalist Sheila Weller on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, Wednesday, October 1, 3 pm ET online @ http://bit.ly/hcjblog.

Wednesday, September 24, 3 pm ET The Halli Casser-Jayne Show brings you stories that will tear your heart in two. Joining Halli at her table is Nik Jans author of A WOLF CALLED ROMEO and H. Alan Day author of THE HORSE LOVER: A COWBOY’S QUEST TO SAVE THE WILD MUSTANGS. Nik Jans is an award-winning writer, photographer, and author of numerous books, including THE GRIZZLY MAZE. A long-time resident of Alaska, he has studied and photographed wolves for more than thirty years. Jans is a contributing editor to Alaska magazine and has written for a variety of publications, including Backpacker and the Christian Science Monitor. His latest book A WOLF CALLED ROMEO tells the awe-inspiring account of Romeo, a lone black wolf and his six-year friendship with the author and an Alaskan community. H. Allan Day formerly owned Mustang Meadows Ranch near St. Francis, South Dakota; Rex Ranch near Whitman, Nebraska; and Lazy B Ranch in Southern Arizona. With his sister, retired Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor, he co-authored the New York Times bestseller LAZY B: GROWING UP ON A CATTLE RANCH IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH WEST. In his latest book THE HORSE LOVER: A COWBOY’S QUEST TO SAVE THE WILD MUSTANGS, Day tells the cautionary tale of his attempt to save the wild mustangs when up against a government agency saddled with its own agenda.  

The Halli Casser-Jayne Show takes an in-depth look into the thousands of years old practice of yoga pursuing the question: Is Yoga All It’s Cracked Up To Be? with a panel of distinguished guests including two time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times senior writer, William J. Broad,  renowned physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Dr. Loren Fishman, bestselling author and creator of the Yoga Cardiac program for Cedars Sinai Medical Center Cardiology Unit, Nirmala Heriza and author and yoga instructor Melissa Carroll. William J. Broad is a senior writer at the New York Time. He has won every major award in print and television as a science journalist. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, as well as an Emmy and a DuPont. He is the author the important THE SCIENCE OF YOGA, THE RISKS AND AWARDS, that created a scandal in the yoga world. Dr. Loren Fishman integrates yoga into his physical medicine and rehabilitation practice in New York City, where he teaches at Columbia Medical School. He has published over 85 papers and conducted clinical trials studying the benefits of yoga for osteoporosis, scoliosis, piriformis syndrome, and rotator cuff tears and is considered a creative pioneer in the field of yoga therapy.  Nirmala Heriza's bestselling book DR YOGA, A COMPLETE PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERING THE HEAD-TO-TOE HEALTH BENEFITS OF YOGA, with a foreword by Dr. Dean Ornish is based on the Yoga Cardiac program that she created for Cedars Sinai Medical Center Cardiology Unit. She developed the Integral Yoga program for Fitness Icon “Jane Fonda’s legendary Beverly Hills Workout Studio.  Melissa Carroll is a yoga instructor and writer based in Tampa, FL, where she guides more than 300 students every week. Her latest book, GOING OM, REAL-LIFE STORIES ON AND OFF THE YOGA MAT features a unique collection of never-before-seen personal narratives from celebrated authors. 

No one has cracked the encrypted language of plants. Insects chirp, bees buzz, animals grow, hiss, hum and even transmit low-frequency sound waves. But plants, as far as we know, never say a thing…or do they? Flower Power is the subject of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, September 10, 3 pm ET when Halli welcomes her guests author of the celebrated book PLANT SPIRIT MEDICINE, THE JOURNEY INTO THE HEALING WISDOM OF PLANTS Eliot Cowan and Michael Largo, author of THE BIG, BAD BOOK OF BOTANY, THE WORLD’S MOST FASCINATING FLORA. Eliot Cowan is the founder of the Blue Deer Center in Margaretville, New York, where he provided training in Plant Spirit Medicine and other traditions. For many years, he apprenticed with the shame Don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, who in 2000, ritually recognized Cowan as a guide to Shamanic apprentices in the Huichol tradition. He is a member of the Council of Elders for the Temple of Sacred Fire Healing. Michael Largo is the author of GOD’S LUNATICS, GENIUS AND HEROIN, THE PORTABLE OBITUARY, the Bram Stoker award-winning FINAL EXITS: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYLOPEDIA OF HOW WE DIE, and three novels. He is the former editor of New York Poetry and the researcher/archivist for the film company Allied Artists. The Power of Plants on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, Wednesday, September 10, 3 pm ET online @ http://bit.ly/hcjblog  

The Halli Casser-Jayne Show will tackle the question: Is Anti-Zionism the New Anti-Semitism? when Halli welcomes her esteemed guests: Ruthie Blum, Alan Kaufman, Joshua Muravchik, Thane Rosenbaum and Jonathan Tobin. Joining in the conversation is Ruthie Blum, the current affairs columnist for Israel Hayom. Her articles appear in the Jerusalem Post. She is the author of “To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama and the ‘Arab Spring.’” Alan Kaufman is an American-Israeli author and the son of a Holocaust survivor. His books include Jew Boy and Drunken Angel. Kaufman was an infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. His op-eds and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times among others. He writes a blog on Jewish and Israeli affairs for The Times of Israel. Joshua Muravchik is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. His latest book is Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel. He has contributed to the New York Times and more. Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor, the author of the critically acclaimed novels, The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, The Golems of Gotham. His articles, reviews and essays appear frequently in the New York Times.  Annika Henroth-Rothstein is a political advisor and writer. A native of Sweden, she writes on the topic of Israeli politics, European Jewry and human rights.  Jonathan S. Tobin is the award-winning senior online editor and chief political blogger of Commentary magazine. His work appears regularly in The New York Post and more. He lectures and appears on CNN, Fox News Channel, the BBC, NPR and more.

Poet, philosopher, author, cancer survivor, Mark Nepo has been breaking a path of spiritual inquiry for more than forty years. He has inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his The Book of Awakening, which in 2010 catapulted to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list when Oprah Winfrey chose Nepo's book as one of her Ultimate Favorite Things. Wednesday, August 27, 3 pm ET the beloved teacher visits The Halli Casser-Jayne Show for an hour-long in-depth conversation. Considered “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher,” Nepo’s 15 books and recorded nine audio projects have been translated into more than twenty languages. His latest book is The Endless Practice, Becoming Who You Were Born to Be, a guide to how the soul works in the world, a revelatory piece focused on steering each of us to become who we were born to be through the endless practice of engaging our heart and soul in the world. Nepo will be joining Oprah Winfrey’s 2014 The Life You want Weekend Tour. He has appeared four times on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday. He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. For more information on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show visit http://bit.ly/hcjmain  

  Wednesday August 20, 3 pm ET The Halli Casser-Jayne Show takes a look at World War I through the eyes of history and the voice of a poet. Marking the 100th anniversary of World War I, Halli welcomes critically acclaimed war historian William Philpott and the world’s leading scholar of the Great War poet Siegfried Sassoon Jean Moorcroft Wilson. William Philpott is Professor of the History of Warfare in the Department of War studies at King’s College London. He is a specialist in the history of Anglo-French relations, British Strategy, and the history of the French army. Philpott is the author of Three Armies on the Somme, The First Battle of the Twentieth Century, Blood Victory: The Battle of the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century, Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Anglo-French Defense Relations between the Wars, Palgrave Concise Atlas of the First World War, and Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History. In his latest book War of Attrition, Fighting the First World War, Philpott takes a look at the causes and effects of The First World War, bringing new revelations of the first truly modern war to light, the war that shaped the twentieth century. Jean Moorcroft Wilson lectures in English Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is married to Virginia Woolf’s nephew. In her latest book, Siegfried Sassoon, Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend, Wilson takes an in-depth look at the man considered a key figure in the study of the poetry of the Great War. Her previous works include I Was an English Poet: Biography of Sir William Watson, Virginia Woolf, Life and London: A Biography of Place, The Selected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg.

Wednesday, August 13, 3 pm ET The Halli Casser-Jayne Show takes a look at prayer with the author and contributors to the powerful book: HOW DO YOU PRAY: Celeste Yacaboni, Mirabai Starr, Jamal Rahman, and Steve Bhaerman. Celeste Yacaboni is passionate about helping people discover a deeper experience of the sacred in their daily lives. Ordained a Minister of Walking Prayer by the Center fro Sacred Studies, she facilitates healing and transformation through her unique approach to spiritual direction and her mastery of a number of healing arts. Her book HOW DO YOU PRAY? Is an inter-spiritual prayer book and resource guide to an emerging global spirituality, which embraces our religious and spiritual diversity. Miarabai Starr is a critically acclaimed author and translator of sacred literature. She teaches and speaks widely on contemplative practice, inter-spiritual experience and the transformational power of loss. Her book DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL was released on the same day that Mirabai’s fourteen year old daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident.  Iman Jamal Rahman is a popular speaker on Islam, Sufi spirituality and interfaith relations. He has been featured in the New York Times, CBS News, BBC, and various NPR programs.  Jamal is the author of several books. Since 9/11, Jamas has been collaborating with Rabbi Ted Falcon and Pastor Don Mackenzie. Affectionately known as the Interfaith Amigos, they tour the country sharing the message of spiritual inclusiveness. Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For more than 27 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.”

Wednesday, August 6, 3 pm ET it’s Girl Talk on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show when some of the iconic names in women’s fiction: Jenna Blum, Pam Jenoff, Sarah McCoy, Kristina McMorris, Alyson Richman, Erika Robuck and Karen White stop by the show to talk about their latest contribution to literature Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion, and so much more. Jenna Blum is the New York Times and international #1 bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us and the Stormchasers. She is one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers. Pam Jenoff is the internationally bestselling author of The Kommandant’s Girl. Sarah McCoy is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller The Baker’s Daughter. Kristina McMorris’ works of fiction have garnered more than twenty national literary awards and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, including her novel Letters from Home. Among Alyson Richman’s nationally bestselling titles is The Lost Wife. Her books have been published in over fifteen languages. Erika Robuck’s novel Hemingway’s Girl was a Target Emerging Author Pick. Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of 18 novels. Her most recent book, A Long Time Gone was released in June 2014. In celebration of the recent 100th anniversary of Grand Central Terminal, these celebrated authors have come together to produce an iconic anthology about New York’s most beloved landmark, creating their own stories, set on the same day, just after the end of World War II, in a time of hope, uncertainty, change, and renewal.