Discussing reverse migration when native sons return to Italy with authors Fred Gardaphe and Nat Scammacca.

According to Barbara Garson's book, "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past," companies are trying to make jobs so simple, as a result, kids in jobs are as replaceable as paper plates. Some companies don't want their employees to have to think but rather they need them to push buttons on machinery to get jobs accomplished.

Discussing the Chicago community of midwives and the book "The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: a Book By and For Women" (published by Simon & Schuster) with one of the book's authors Norma Swenson and midwife and author Ina May Gaskin.

Discussing the book "Charms for the Easy Life" (published by Putnam) with the author Kaye Gibbons.

Discussing the book "The Unquiet Earth: A Novel" (published by Norton) with the author Denise Giardina.

Terkel presents music with Susannah McCorkle

Discussing the book "Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior" (published by Houghton Mifflin) with author John Frohnmayer.

Discussing the novel "The Old Gringo" (published by Harper & Row) with the author, novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes.

Discussing the book "The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World" (published by Houghton Mifflin) with the author, novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes.

Discussing the debate over the site of the new Chicago Public Library with poet Jim Fuerst and Terry Brunner, Executive Director of the Better Government Association.