AuthorTopia Frank Silverstein

Short announcement that Authortopia is taking a time out now and will be back in November. Hope you will join me then. Thx, Frank

RICK SALUTIN is the author of Gideon's Bible: A Father and Son Discuss God, the Bible and Life. This is the final episode of Season 1. AuthorTopia will be back in the fall. Do the stories in the Bible push your buttons?  For Rick and his son Gideon, God and the characters in the Bible trigger a lot of questions… questions about how God behaves, how the characters behave and how the people they see everyday behave.  Rick and Gideon are not shy to call out bullshit as they search for wisdom.  

ALEX MESSENGER is the author of THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY:  SURVIVING A GRIZZLY ATTACK IN THE CANADIAN TUNDRA.  It was the trip of a lifetime that Alex says: “Very nearly became the last trip of my lifetime!”   In the summer of his final year of high school, Alex and five buddies took a 600 mile canoe trip into the Arctic Circle.  During a short hike he accidentally crossed paths with a grizzly bear.  The bear attacked, Alex survived, and his story will get you thinking.

BRADLEY NATHANSON is the author of AMERICAN DEPARTURES:  THE CURIOUS PLIGHT OF A UNIQUELY PRIVILEGED QUIETLY DESPERATE BABY BOOMER. He recalls his days as a young man, when reality seemed far stranger than what he imagined, and what he did imagine never quite matched reality.  Brad talks to retired TV news producer Frank Silverstein about crawling into an igloo in the Arctic Circle, performing an amazing feat of strength while under hypnotic suggestion, and nightlife in Hollywood back in the 1980s.

MENACHEM KAISER is the author of PLUNDER: A MEMOIR ABOUT FAMILY PROPERTY AND NAZI TREASURE.  Family histories are never simple, and as he discovered, they can be a lot stranger than the cherished bedtime stories told by our elders.    Menachem tells retired news producer Frank Silverstein about how a light-hearted jaunt to his grandfather’s birthplace led him to the raging center of a national controversy in Poland. He explains how his efforts to reclaim a family legacy produced a treasure he never expected.  

LAURIE ROSENWALD is the author of “HOW TO MAKE MISTAKES ON PURPOSE” and the forthcoming memoir: “MEMWAH.”  She explains how to make the best of lucky accidents and laugh at all the others.    Laurie talks to retired tv news producer Frank Silverstein about her remarkable great-grandfather Julius Rosenwald, founder of Sears, who built thousands of schools for African Americans in the Jim Crow South; her grandmother’s decision not to use her ticket for a voyage on the Titanic; and her own dramatic voyage through the colorful world of art and entertainment in New York City.These are vibrant tales from a brassy New York woman.