Program 746: Goodbye Eastern Europe; The Long Field in Wales

A historian describes how eastern European countries have modernized since the Cold War and examines the kinds of challenges they face today. And an American-born artist and creative writing teacher shares the joy she feels in being "Welsh by choice."

• Jacob Mikanowski, author of "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" (Pantheon)
• Pamela Petro, author of "The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir" (Arcade)

• Jacob Mikanowski is the author of "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land."
• Jacob writes observations about the world on occasion for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Pamela Petro is a lecturer in creative nonfiction at Smith College in Massachusetts, and directs the Dylan Thomas International Summer School at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.
• Pam is the author of "The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir." She writes in The Guardian about visiting her favorite megalith sites in Wales.