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With National Survivors of Suicide Day this week, we'll take a look at how people grieve and try to cope with the loss of a loved one to suicide. Laura's guests are Mary Pat McMahon, Co-chair of the New England Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Chairman of the National Survivors Council and Chan Newton, a Chaplain and Bereavement coordinator at the Hospice chapter at the VA Hospital in Manchester. To find out more about the American Federation for Suicide Prevention's November 22nd Teleconference or to sign up for it's webcast. For information on complicated grief. To read a reprint of "Why Do People Kill Themselves?" by psychologist Edwin Schneidman.

It is the year 2055 and America is entangled in a devastating world war?and losing badly. As the threat of homeland invasion grows stronger, the United States is desperate to change the tide, anyway it can.
Enter Sal Hayden, official biographer of a former president known as BC, now 109 years old and all but forgotten. Charismatic, controversial, and always willing to feel another person?s pain, BC?s political career, like his personal life, is marked by both uncanny triumphs and key blunders?some of which may have doomed the U.S. to defeat. Recording his story has not always been easy, but it has been straightforward. That is, until the day Sal is asked to rewrite it?and not just on the page.
That?s the premise of the new novel, The X President, by Philip Baruth. Philip talks about the Clinton years and his inspiration for his tale of politics and spin.