September 23, 2024: What we call this

Today on the fabulous 413, Oh the worlds we have for you to discover near and far, and within our own systems. We head to Williamstown to Images Cinema to find out more about the democratic process, as their Civic Cinema series launches tonight. We’ll hear from Executive Director Dan Hudson about the films they’ve brought together on the subject, and why engaging with these issues and avenues on screen can hopefully lead to more civil discussion and engagement in person as we ready ourselves for the upcoming election season. It’s in the fantastical spaces just on the tip of our tongues and being created in fiction and language. Easthampton based author Jedediah Berry’s new novel “The Naming Song” comes out tomorrow and is an amazing tale of the power that language and story can hold. We’ll chat with the author about his inspiration, the transient nature of borders and words, and maybe his award winning games also, before you can join him at a release party at Odyssey books in South Hadley tomorrow night, Sept. 24th. And our resident astronomer Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed of Hampshire College and Kainaat Studios, helps us be overwhelmed by scale when he tells us about the longest star excretion currently known to scientists.