The Best of Chatting Up a Storm

Russell Banks, Garrison Keillor, and Dave Isay are among those heard on Chatting Up a Storm, Vol. 1, a distillation of the best broadcast interviews by journalist Claudia Cragg, with thinkers, authors, and change-makers from the United States and around the world. This volume features twelve interviews, personally chosen by Claudia Cragg and radio producer Joe Bevilacqua.

For some years, Claudia Cragg, who is primarily an Asia specialist, was based in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and then Singapore, reporting both in hard news and in feature stories for print and radio on all dimensions of business in the region for Asia magazine. Before that, she was an established feature writer for Asia's preeminent English language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, but started out in journalism in London in the mid-'70s on Which?, the preeminent magazine of the UK's Consumers' Association. She is a former editor of Tokyo Journal, that city's leading English-language magazine and of B International magazine in Hong Kong.