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Follow presidential hopefuls around NH and open question and answer sessions with reporters are pretty common. Republican and Democratic candidates alike put them on their schedules or hold them on the fly on an almost daily basis.

But that doesn’t go for everyone, particularly the top Democrats. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama has shown much of an appetite for wading into the press scrum, and as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Josh Rogers reports, non-negotiated access to Hillary Clinton is virtually nonexistent.

Bradbury’s classic book explored issues like media dependence, censorship and worries that this generation doesn’t read as much as past ones did…issues that still remain relevant a half century later. This month we taped a special discussion about the book; this is the full, unedited version of the program.

Guests

• Mark Timney, Associate Professor of Journalism at Keene State College
• Jeanne Cavellos, a New Hampshire-based Science Fiction Writer and Professor at St. Anselm College

Author Chris Bohjalian is perhaps best known for his novel "Midwives." His latest book, "The Double Bind", is based on the life of a homeless man in Vermont who left behind a legacy of museum-quality photographs of American musicians and artists. Bohjalian's book combines that man's life with the fictitious characters in the F. Scott Fiztgerald novel The Great Gatsby. We'll talk with Chris about the reality of homelessness, and the imaginary reality of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan's legacy.

This interview orginally aired Tuesday, April 17, 2007***