LECTURES AND INTERVIEWS ABOUT WHO'S WHO IN HELL

• 21 Sep 2001 - The author spoke in Ottawa to Canadian humanists.--a videodisc is available.
• 26 Feb 2001 - Interview over Radio WNYC about agnosticism. To the Mandean who inquired if his group of Iraqui Gnostics was included in Smith's book, he was referred to page 708. To the Catholic who commended agnostics for their skepticism, Smith said, "Pardon, what cult did you say you're a member of?" and then defined a cult in part as any group that teaches that you can continue living after you're dead as being unproductive wishful thinking. To the physicist who said that faith is a part of the study of physics, Smith countered, "Nonsense. C'mon, c'mon, guy!"
• 14 January 2001 - "Katha Pollitt, an unabashedly liberal columnist for The Nation who says she is listed in the 'Who's Who in Hell,' admits she used to feel more strongly about arguing against religion than she does today." From "Confessions of a Lonely Atheist" by Times science writer Natalie Angier in The New York Times Magazine (14 Jan 2001).
• 28 Nov 2000 -- Ethical Culture Society, 2 West 64th Street, New York City - book discussion group hosted by Society President Judy Wallach. Publishers Lyle and Carole Stuart, Beth Lamont, Irving Yablon, Dennis Middlebrooks, Victor Acevedo, Jeff Nordstedt, Marilyn Lounse, and others attended.
• 17 November 2000 -- Long Island Secular Humanists, Plainview-Old Bethpage Library, Long Island book-signing
• 30 Oct 2000 - Interview with Marilyn Lounes for Irish American, to follow her Dec-Jan interview with actor Kevin Kline
• 5 Oct 2000 -- KLIZ, Brainerd, Minnesota, 5:00 p.m. (EST)
• 3 Oct 2000 -- State of Washington, Intercom Radio, 6:15 - 7 p.m. Seattle time.
• 25 Sep 2000 -- Telephone interview with Micah White of Swarthmore, 2 p.m., for replay later (tentative)
• 21 September 2000 -- Live talk show with Chaz on rock station in Dallas, Texas at (972) 448-1056

  19 September 2000 -- Live talk-show from Madison, Wisconsin

  19 September 2000 -- Live talk-show from Duluth, Minnesota

• 16 - 17 September 2000 -- Orlando, Florida - Free Inquiry Society of Central Florida book-signing

  14 September 2000 -- "Karmic Relief," an internet show, 7 - 9 p.m. (EDT) and 4 PM (PDT). Go to www.eyada.com and instead of Lionel, selected "You Gotta," then click on the green GO button. Show can be listened to for 4 days in the archives. The toll-free number for calling during the show is 1-877-392-3299.

• 7 September 2000 -- Christopher Lydon of "Connections" on National Public Radio interviewed Smith 10 - 11 a.m. (EST). Program was re-broadcast on AM Radio 820, Station WNYC, after 8 p.m.

  7 September 2000 -- Columbus, Ohio, radio talk-show (614) 487-2525

  29 August 2000 -- Book is reviewed in Die Welt (Germany), according to Christian John, editor in Berlin of Diesseits

  29 August 2000 -- 8 p.m., CNN interview with Correspondent Jeanne Moos, followed the next day by re-runs at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Anna Beck and Randy Box were included in Moos's interview on the 31 Jane Street roof. Moos then wittily went to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where she showed a copy of the book and asked a priest and others if they had read Who's Who in Hell . . . or are in it.

  28 August 2000 -- Interview on the Alan Colmes radio show, accompanied by publisher Lyle Stuart.

  24 August 2000 --Televised interview by Screw's Al Goldstein (who has purchased 6 copies of the book), in which the cigar-chomping editor discusses sex and atheism with late-night TV viewers.

  21 August 2000 -- 100% favorable review in Publishers Weekly, p. 56. Click to see.

  19 August 2000 -- Juan Castro y Velásquez, leading Ecuadorian art historian, chats about book with Smith and suggests writers Eugenio Espejo and Juan Montalvo as possible inclusions in any future edition.

  17 August 2000 -- Interview for the Tom Pope radio show in Washington, D.C. (and syndicated to 12 other stations). Smith was quizzed by a mainly African American group of theists who were interested in publicizing a view of theirs that the Bible proves God created the first black men in Africa. Smith cited Diop's similar Afrocentricism but questioned everything . . . in as jocular a fashion as he could. An angry caller saying Smith should read The Book of Solomon was told he had read it, that its literary level was far below that of Job and particularly of Hamlet. Because the telephone lines, said Mr. Pope, were lighting up and only seconds were left, he asked if Smith would return for an entire hour. "Sure," Smith said in ending the program on an agreeable note, "but is that a threat or a promise?"

  16 August 2000 -- Interview in New York City by Ricardo Calil for the Brazilian journal that is analogous to The Wall Street Journal. Calil reports that Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a non-believer.

  13 August 2000 -- Tips are arriving of possible other non-believers: Pete Hammill; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Enrico Fermi; William Kunstler, Ronald L. Kuby; John Malkovich; Victor Acevedo.

  12 Aug 2000 -- Barricade Books publisher Lyle Stuart reports that on a radio program Ronald L. Kuby (lawyer who is on the advisory board of the ACLU) discussed Who's Who in Hell article with Jerry Falwell.

  9 August 2000 -- The New York Observer publishes a page one (!) article, headlined

  ATHEIST SCHOLAR WARREN A. SMITH MAKES A LIST OF WHO'S WHO IN HELL

  The extensive article includes not only a front-page caricature but also the author's photo atop his Greenwich Village rooftop. Online, the article (without photos of author and nine eminent non-believers including Thomas Mann, Bjork, Ronald Reagan Jr., Steve Allen, George Soros, Andy Rooney, Carrie Fischer, Ted Turner, and Larry King) can be found at the following (search for article by David DiGiacomo):

  http://www.observer.com

  8 August 2000 -- Entertainer Steve Allen tells David DiGiacomo that he has purchased the book, finds his entry accurate, and says, "I think it ought to be in everyone's library."

  29 July 2000 -- Manuel Paz y Niño of Peru filmed an interview about the book for use in his editing of Asociación Edictiones: Revista Peruana de Filosofia Aplicado (Peruvian Journal of Applied Philosophy).

  27 July 2000 -- Interviewed by David DiGiacomo of The New York Observer.