The Halli Casser-Jayne Show

Is politics only for politicians? How do you feel about celebrities running for national office? International lecturer, author, and spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson  recently announced her candidacy for California's Congressional District 33. I'll talk with Marianne about her candidacy as well as the New York Times bestseller's latest book A Year of Miracles, Daily Devotions and Reflections. Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs including Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose. In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers, and for good reason. The Houston, Texas native gets things done. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also founded the Department of Peace Campaign, a grass roots campaign to establish a United States Department of Peace. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESULTS organization, which works to end poverty in the United States and around the world. 

Internationally acclaimed spiritual leader and lecturer, Marianne Williamson is the author of ten published books, six which have been New York Times bestsellers, four of them reaching the coveted number #1 spot, including A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles, The Age of Miracles, A Women’s Worth? Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs including Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose. In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. Marianne comes to The Halli Casser-Jayne Show to talk about her laest book, which will allow her readers to discover the transforming power of love, A YEAR OF MIRACLES, DAILY DEVOTIONS AND REFLECTIONS, and her run for election to the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s Congressional District 33. 

Internationally acclaimed author, speaker, psychologist to the stars, the founder of Arizona’s popular alternative therapy program Sedona Intensive, Albert Clayton Gaulden visits The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, December 25, 3 pm ET for an in-depth conversation about his transforming work. A leader in the spiritual community, Gaulden has helped thousands of clients achieve personal growth by harnessing their inner power. In his groundbreaking book, You’re Not Who You Think You Are with a forward by The Celestine Prophecy’s James Redfield, Gaulden teaches the same techniques, insights, and exercises familiar to his clients, to guide readers to a place where they can uncover the obstacles that hinder their fulfillment. Gaulden focuses on looking within through his thoughtful, practical, and endlessly illuminating guide. The Oprah Winfry Show, ABC World News, and publications such as the Chicago Tribune have featured Gaulden. Tune in to Halli’s conversation with author and astro-intuitive Albert Gaulden on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, December 25, 3 pm EDT at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

When Walter Mosley first burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress – a combustible mixture of Raymond Chandler and Richard Wright – he captured the attention of hundreds and thousands of readers (including future president Bill Clinton). Wednesday, December 18, 3 pm ET, Walter Mosely visits The Halli Casser-Jayne Show for an in-depth conversation about his life, his writing, and the long-awaited return of Easy Rawlins in Mosley’s new mystery: Little Green. Walter Mosley started writing at age 34 and legend has it that he has written every day since, penning more than forty books and often publishing two books a year. Devil in a Blue Dress was made into an acclaimed film starring Denzel Washington. Always Outnumbered was an HBO film starring Laurence Fishburne, adapted from Mosley’s first Socrates Fortlow novel, soon to be revived by Fishburne on HBO. Mosley’s short fiction has been published in a wide array of publications including The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, USA Weekend, Los Angeles Times Magazine and Savoy. A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of Goddard College, he holds an MFA from CNY and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a playwright and an artist and every bit as interesting as the characters he crafts. Tune in to Halli’s conversation with the fascinating Walter Mosley on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, December 18, 3 pm ET.

Internationally acclaimed author, speaker, psychologist to the stars, the founder of Arizona’s popular alternative therapy program Sedona Intensive, Albert Clayton Gaulden visits The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, December 11, 3 pm ET for an in-depth conversation about his transforming work. A leader in the spiritual community, Gaulden has helped thousands of clients achieve personal growth by harnessing their inner power. In his groundbreaking book, You’re Not Who You Think You Are with a forward by The Celestine Prophecy’s James Redfield, Gaulden teaches the same techniques, insights, and exercises familiar to his clients, to guide readers to a place where they can uncover the obstacles that hinder their fulfillment. Gaulden focuses on looking within through his thoughtful, practical, and endlessly illuminating guide. The Oprah Winfry Show, ABC World News, and publications such as the Chicago Tribune have featured Gaulden. Tune in to Halli’s conversation with author and astro-intuitive Albert Gaulden on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, December 11, 3 pm EDT at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin headlines The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, December 4, 3 pm ET when Halli also chats with award-winning American short story writer and novelist, Jill McCorkle and author Cassandra King. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln are two of the books that Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer, historian, political commentator and baseball enthusiast Doris Kearns Goodwin has given to the world. Now she adds to her long list of brilliant books The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden Age of Journalism. Award-winning author Jill McCorkle has the distinction of having her first two novels published on the same day in 1984. The author of nine books – fours story collections and five novels – five of her books have been selected as the New York Times Notable books. She recently released her first novel in seventeen years, Life After Life, a book the New York Times says that “in its quiet way is a daring venture.” In The Halli Casser-Jayne Show’s QA-3 segment, which airs directly following the weekly 3 pm ET broadcast, Halli will talk with bestselling Southern author Cassandra King about her newest book Moonrise.

Dessert is what Halli is serving up on The Halli Casser Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds. Halli and her guests will be talking about that satisfying, sinful, sensational, sometimes salty, sometimes sweet and always seductive special treat that is dessert. Joining Halli in the conversation three delicious and delectable guests including author, chef, TV and radio personality Alex Hitz; chef, author and personality Nathalie Dupree; and owner, founder and chef of one of the premier catering companies in North America, Soiree Catering and Events: the scrumptious and charming Mary Hataway. Nathalie Dupree has sold over half a million copies of her cookbooks and has appeared on PBS, The Learning Channel and The Food Network. She has won  two James Beard Awards. She is most famous for having started the New Southern Cooking movement. Alex Hitz has made entertaining fun again. His new book is My Beverly Hills Kitchen: Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist. He is a columnist for House Beautiful. Chef Mary Hataway has been honored by many top tier publications including Vogue, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Wine Spectator as one of America's top female chefs. She she appeared on ABC's Good Morning America. Mary has catered events for luminaries such as Julia Child and the Emperor of Japan, Akihito.

The Middle East is the topic of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, November 20, 3 pm ET. Born in Rehovot, Israel, Ari Shavit served as a paratrooper in the IDF and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1995, he joined Haaretz, where he serves on the editorial board. He is also a leading commentator on Israeli public television. Shavit’s new book, My Promised Land, The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel is the winner of The Natan Book Award. As a veteran war correspondent, Scott Anderson has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. His book Lawrence in Arabia: War Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East is the book New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin hailed as “a fascinating book, the best work of military history in recent memory and an illuminating analysis of issues that still loom large today.” Richard Breitman, the author of ten books and many articles in German history, U.S. history, and the Holocaust, has served as director of historical research for the Nazi War Criminal Records and Imperial Japanese Records Interagency Working Group. His latest book is the controversial FDR and The Jews, co-authored with Allan J. Lichtman. Join me and my guests at the 30th Anniversary of the Miami Book Fair International, November 17-24.

Politics is the topic of conversation on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show with Halli's guests: U.S. Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz; editor-at-large and senior political analyst at TIME Magazine, Mark Halperin; national affairs editor for New York Magazine, John Heilemann; and  Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was the youngest woman elected to the Florida state legislature and the first Jewish Congresswoman ever elected from Florida. Wife, mother of three, and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Wasserman Schultz is currently Chair of the DNC. Her  first book, For the Next Generation, A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation’s Problems looks at the challenges facing America today and offers readers a toolkit for how to move America forward. Following on the heels of their number one New York Times bestseller Game Change, their explosive account of the 2008 presidential election, political journalists and authors John Heilemann and Mark Halperin apply their storytelling savvy in their new book Double Down: Game Change 2012, their compelling narrative about the circuslike Republican nomination fight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney, and the trials, tribulations, and Election Day triumph of Barack Obama. Pulitzer prize winning writer A. Scott Berg has authored four bestselling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius for which he received the national Book Award; Goldwyn: A Biography; Lindbergh for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and his biographical memoir of Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered a New York Times #1 bestseller. His recently-released biography, Wilson, published this the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as the 28th President of the United States, is a revelatory portrait of one of America’s most influential, yet often misunderstood presidents.

Travel with me back to The Sixties when Weather Underground founder and the “terrorist” vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused candidate Barack Obama of “palling around with” Bill Ayers; journalist James Reston Jr., whose new book The Accidental Victim presents an astonishing argument against the Warren Commission's findings and the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and The Wall Street Journal Drama Critic and author of the new biography Duke, A Life of Duke Ellington join The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Wednesday, November 6, 3 pm ET. You're in for a trip!    

Get up close and personal, Wednesday, October 30, 3 pm ET when The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds hosts two giants of the literary world: Scott Turow and just in time for HalloweenJohn Searles. Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling works of fiction including Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof, and two non-fiction books including One L. A practicing lawyer, Turow’s books have been translated into more than 25 languages, sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into film and television. Turow frequently contributes  to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker. He is at the top of his game with his latest thriller, Identical, which is currently number two on the New York Times combined hardcover and E-book bestseller list. Turow is also a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders and a contributor to the band’s new book Hard Listening:The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All. John Searles is the author of the best-selling novels Boy Still Missing and Strange but True. For ten years, John has appeared regularly as a book critic on NBC’s Today Show and CBS’s The Early Show. He is also the Editor-at-Large of Cosmopolitan. His essays have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post and other national publications.

Bring along your Dramamine when you tune in to The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, 10/23 at 3 pm ET. You are in for a whirlwind trip around the globe with three esteemed authors. The inspiration for Robert Antoni’s writing is his family history in Trinidad, and his upbringing in the Bahamas. He is the author of three novels, Divina Trace, Blessed is the Fruit, and Carnival. His latest historical novel is As Flies to Whatless Boys, charts his family’s 1845 emigration from England to Trinidad as part of an experimental utopian society. Antoni was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize and a NEA Grant. His short fiction was chosen for the Aga Kahn Prize by the Paris Review. Ruth Behar was born in Cuba and grew up in New York. She is the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her non-fiction books include Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba. Her most recent book is Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys. Behar  is both an immigrant child uprooted from Cuba and a woman whose job it is to travel and return home with stories. Michael Deibert is the author of Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair, Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Miami Herald, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the World Policy Journal.. He has been a featured commentator on international affairs for the BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, National Public Radio, WNYC New York Public Radio and KPFK Pafica Radio. .

It’s comedy central on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, Wednesday, October 16, 3 pm ET when Halli’s guests will be Pulitzer-Prize winning humorist Dave Barry; bestselling author, playwright and screenwriter of that favorite romantic comedy, You’ve Got Mail, Delia Ephron, and cartoonist Ben Katchor best known for his comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnis. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels. His latest book, Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All is a collaboration with his fellow Rock Bottom Remainders, the band that included fellow authors Stephen King, Amy Tan, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, among others. Delia Ephron is a bestselling author and screenwriter. H Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, The Huffington Post. In Sister Mother Husband Dog, her new book of essays, Ephron showcases her trademark wit and effervescent prose. Brooklyn born Ben Katchor is the American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."  

There comes that moment in all of our lives when the gods align and that magic we have been waiting for finally happens. That moment came for singer, voiceover artist, actress E.G. Daily on a recent Monday night when she made her appearance on NBC’s THE VOICE and wowed the world with her astonishing rendition of  Faith Hill’s “Breathe.” E.G. Daily isn’t a newcomer to show business. She was the star of 80s cult classic movie PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE as Dottie, the voice of Tommy Pickles on Nickelodeon’s hit cartoon RUGRATS and the guest star of widely popular shows, including the role of Leslie, Phoebes’ ex-songwriting friend on FRIENDS. During the 80s dance music explosion, she created 3 top 10 hits which went #1 on the Billboard dance charts, and performed her own songs in over 30 film soundtracks including SCARFACE starring Al Pacino and MY SISTER’S KEEPER, the Cameron Diaz film. But did anyone know her name?If they didn’t then, they soon will, thanks to that blessed moment on NBC’s  THE VOICE.

Music is the subject of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds when Halli is joined bytwice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for his writing talent, and author of the new much-talked about biography Kansas City Lightning, The Rise and Times of Charles Parker, Stanley Crouch and iconic portrait photographer Lynn Goldsmith with her new book, Rock and Roll Stories. Stanley Crouch has been writing about jazz music and the black experience for more than forty years. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue, Downbeat, and the New York Times. He has served as artistic consultant for programming at Lincoln Center and is a regular columnist for the New York Daily News. Lynn Goldsmith is the iconic portrait photographer best known for her images of musicians. After coming of age in the Midwest in the tumultuous 1960s, she crashed the music scene in New York, emerging as one of its leading image-makers, chronicling Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan and more.