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Hampton Sides - The Wide Wide Sea, Part Two
May 11, 2024 20:17 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBHampton Sides is a veteran journalist and non-fiction writer, with his work appearing in many publications, including National Geographic and Outside magazine. Book Talk listeners may best know him for his appearances discussing his titles like, Hellhound on His Trail, Blood and Thunder, and In the Kingdom of Ice. Today, we will begin a two-part interview talking about his latest book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, wh...
Hampton Sides - The Wide Wide Sea, Part 1
May 04, 2024 20:10 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBHampton Sides is a veteran journalist and non-fiction writer, with his work appearing in many publications, including National Geographic and Outside magazine. Book Talk listeners may best know him for his appearances discussing his titles like, Hellhound on His Trail, Blood and Thunder, and In the Kingdom of Ice. Today, we will begin a two-part interview talking about his latest book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, wh...
Sara Koffi - While We Were Burning
April 27, 2024 20:09 - 31 minutes - 29 MBSara Koffi is a native of Memphis, who currently calls western Pennsylvania home. We’ll be discussing her debut, a thriller called, While We Were Burning, which is set in Harbor Town, one of the few majority-white neighborhoods in Memphis, and how that lack of integration exacerbates the grief felt by the leading women characters, both black and white.
Alice Randall - My Black Country, Part 2
April 20, 2024 19:54 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBThis is the second of a two-part interview with, Alice Randall, who is best known for her best-selling novels The Wind Done Gone, Rebel Yell, Black Bottom Saints and others. But before writing prose, Alice wrote country songs in Nashville, including "XXXs and OOOs", which went to top the charts for Trisha Yearwood, making Alice the first African-American woman to write a number one country hit record. Her new book, My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, ...
Alice Randall - My Black Country, Part 1
April 13, 2024 19:32 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MBBook lovers know Alice Randall for her best-selling novels including The Wind Done Gone, Rebel Yell, Black Bottom Saints and others. But before writing prose, Alice wrote country songs in Nashville, including "XXXs and OOOs", which went to top the charts for Trisha Yearwood, making Alice the first African-American woman to write a number one country hit record. Her new book, My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future, interweaves her life story an...
Dr. SunAh Laybourn - Out of Place
March 30, 2024 19:19 - 38 minutes - 17.9 MBDr. SunAh M. Laybourn is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Memphis. Her research has been published in Ethnic & Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociology Compass, and Asian Pacific American Law Journal. Her co-authored book entitled, Diversity in Black Greek-Letter Organizations: Breaking the Line, was published by Routledge in 2018. Today we will be discussing her new book, Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants which is published by NY...
Kurt Wagner - Battle for the Bird, Part 2
March 23, 2024 19:17 - 32 minutes - 15 MBWe welcome Kurt Wagner back for the second of a two-part interview today. Kurt is an award-winning business and technology journalist covering social media for Bloomberg and has been writing about Twitter and other social media companies and their impacts on society since 2013. Kurt’s debut book is Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul, which is published by Simon & Schuster.
Kurt Wagner - Battle for the Bird, Part 1
March 16, 2024 19:09 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBWe happily welcome Kurt Wagner for the first of a two-part interview today. Kurt is an award-winning business and technology journalist covering social media for Bloomberg and has been writing about Twitter and other social media companies and their impacts on society since 2013. Kurt’s debut book is Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul, which is published by Simon & Schuster.
Mark Greaney - The Chaos Agent
March 09, 2024 19:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBMark Greaney is now best known for his long-running Grey Man series, starring the burned CIA op, Court Gentry. And as a special treat, Mark brought along his editor, Tom Colgan, who is Vice President, Editorial Director for Berkley Books. Today we’ll be talking about entry number 13 in the series, The Chaos Agent.
Louis Ferrante - Borgata: Rise of Empire
March 02, 2024 21:41 - 2 hours - 56.8 MBGuest host Matt Ward welcomes retired gangster and current historian Louis Ferrante on for an epic two-hour interview. Ferrante's new book is Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia, first part of the planned Borgata Trilog,) covering the Mafia's first one hundred years, from 1860's Sicily to 1960's America.
Brad Taylor - Dead Man's Hand
February 03, 2024 21:33 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBPrior to becoming a best-selling thriller writer, Brad Taylor served in the U.S. Army for twenty-one years retiring as a lieutenant colonel after serving in several special-forces capacities in multiple deployments around the globe. His Pike Logan thriller series began in 2011 with One Rough Man, and today we’ll talk about the 18th entry, Dead Man’s Hand, which is published by William Morrow.
Vanessa Sasson - The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women
January 31, 2024 16:46 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBDr. David Mason back today as guest host. Dave is a professor of religious studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. This week he speaks with a returning guest, Dr. Vanessa Sasson, who is also a professor of religious studies, but at Marianopolis College in Quebec. They last spoke about her debut novel, Yasodhara, and today they will be discussing her most recent work of historical fiction, The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women, which is available from Equinox Publishing.
Avery Cunningham - The Mayor Maxwell Street
January 29, 2024 00:00 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBAvery Cunningham joins me to discuss her debut novel, The Mayor of Maxwell Street which is published by Hyperion. A native of Jackson, TN and now a resident of Memphis, Avery has crafted a tale set in the early 1920s in Chicago, as the wealthiest African-American families have gathered for the funeral of the son of the richest black man in the nation. The Sawyer family’s daughter, Nelly, only wants to become a journalist, but her parents have other plans for her future, as she chases after ...
Fergus Bordewich - Klan War - Part 2
December 02, 2023 16:55 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBFergus M. Bordewich is a former journalist and now a longtime historian. His books include THE FIRST CONGRESS: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, BOUND FOR CANAAN: The Story of the Underground Railroad, KILLING THE WHITE MAN'S INDIAN: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. Today we wrap up with the second of our two-part conversation about his latest book, KLAN WAR: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Sav...
Fergus Bordewich - Klan War - Part 1
November 25, 2023 16:49 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBFergus M. Bordewich is a former journalist and now a longtime historian. His books include THE FIRST CONGRESS: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, BOUND FOR CANAAN: The Story of the Underground Railroad, KILLING THE WHITE MAN'S INDIAN: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. Today we begin the first of our two-part conversation about his latest book, KLAN WAR: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Recons...
Martin Clark - The Plinko Bounce - Part 2
November 11, 2023 18:06 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBMartin Clark is a retired circuit court judge from Patrick County, Virginia and is the author of six novels, including Plain Heathen Mischief and The Jezebel Remedy. Today is the conclusion of a two-part interview about his newest novel, The Plinko Bounce which is published by Rare Bird Books.
Martin Clark - The Plinko Bounce - Part 1
November 04, 2023 18:00 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBMartin Clark is a retired circuit court judge from Patrick County, Virginia and is the author of six novels, including Plain Heathen Mischief and The Jezebel Remedy. Today is the first half of a two-part interview about his newest novel, The Plinko Bounce which is published by Rare Bird Books.
Laurence Leamer - Hitchcock’s Blondes
October 28, 2023 18:57 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBLaurence Leamer is a journalist and author with quite an accomplished body of work under his belt. His journalism has appeared in publications including Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek. His books have covered gritty topics like coal mining and lynching, political titans like the Kennedys and Ronald Reagan, and the brightest stars in the arts including, Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Truman Capote and now Alfred Hitchcock, in the recently released Hitchcock's Blondes: The...
Maureen Corrigan - Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works
October 21, 2023 18:48 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBMaureen Corrigan is the Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is perhaps bet known as the longtime book critic for the NPR program Fresh Air and is the author of Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading, and So We Read On: How “The Great Gatsby” Came to Be and Why It Endures. Earlier this year continuing education company The Great Courses made available her series of lectures, entitled, Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden L...
Stephan Pastis - Looking Up
October 14, 2023 18:43 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBStephan Pastis is best known as the writer and artist for the wildly successful daily comic strip Pearls Before Swine. The latest collection of strips, Pearls Seeks Enlightenment was recently published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. Stephan also writes novels for all ages, but the publisher says that they are great especially for middle schoolers. His Timmy Failure series was successful, even spawning the major motion picture Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. The Trubble Town books follow...
Hayley Arcenaux - Wild Ride: My Journey from Cancer Kid to Astronaut
September 10, 2023 14:15 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBHayley Arceneaux is a physician's assistant with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Not only an employee, she is also a successful patient who recovered from pediatric cancer at St. Jude. A couple of years ago, she was offered a seat on a Space X flight to orbit the earth for three days and raise money for St. Jude. In 2022, her Memoir Wild Ride: A Memoir of I.V. Drips and Rocket Ships was published, and 2023 sees the young readers' adaptation Wild Ride: My Journey from Cance...
Jonathan Eig - King: A Life Pt. 2
August 05, 2023 14:45 - 33 minutes - 31 MBI’m happy to welcome Jonathan Eig back to the program today for the second of our two-part conversation about his new, exhaustive biography of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ent, King: A Life which is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Jonathan is a best-selling and award-winning author of non-fiction. His titles are Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Mos...
Jonathan Eig - King: A Life Pt. 1
July 29, 2023 14:33 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBJonathan Eig is a best-selling and award-winning author of non-fiction. His titles are Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster, The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, and the multi-award-winning Ali: A Life, about boxer and activist Muhammad Ali. Today, we’ll begin the first of a two-part interview about his n...
Polly Stewart - The Good Ones
July 22, 2023 14:11 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBPolly Stewart is an associate professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. Her essays have a appeared in The New York Times, Poets and Writers, among others. Today we will be speaking about her new novel, a thriller, entitled The Good Ones which is published by Harper.
Julie Carr - Mud, Blood, and Ghosts - Part 2
July 15, 2023 17:27 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThis week we have the second of a two-part interview as Dr. David Mason speaks with Dr. Julie Carr about her book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West published by the University of Nebraska Press. David is the director of the Asian Studies Department at Rhodes College. Julie is the director of the Women’s Studies Department and professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Julie Carr - Mud, Blood, and Ghosts - Part 1
July 08, 2023 21:24 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBThis week we have the first of a two-part interview as returning guest host Dr. David Mason speaks with Dr. Julie Carr about her book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West published by the University of Nebraska Press. David is the director of the Asian Studies Department at Rhodes College. Julie is the director of the Women’s Studies Department and professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Paul Kix - You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Pt. 2
July 01, 2023 16:58 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBWe're happy to welcome Blake McVey back as guest host of the program today. Blake is the public services director of the historic Cossitt Library in downtown Memphis. Today is the second of a two-part interview with journalist and author Paul Kix. Paul's journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. His first book is The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando, and today he and...
Paul Kix - You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Pt. 1
June 24, 2023 16:53 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBWe're happy to welcome Blake McVey back as guest host of the program today. Blake is the public services director of the historic Cossitt Library in downtown Memphis. Today is the first of a two-part interview with journalist and author Paul Kix. Paul's journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. His first book is The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando, and today he and Bl...
Peter Cozzens - A Brutal Reckoning Pt. 2
June 03, 2023 15:07 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBPeter Cozzens is on the program today for the second of a two-part interview. Peter is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and a historian. He has edited or written almost twenty books, having won many awards along the way. Today we will wrap up our chat about the last book in his trilogy of books looking at U.S. government wars against Native Americans. The first two were: The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West and Tecumseh and the Prophet. The new ...
Peter Cozzens - A Brutal Reckoning Pt. 1
May 27, 2023 17:01 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MBPeter Cozzens is on the program today for the first of a two-part interview. Peter is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and a historian. He has edited or written almost twenty books, having won many awards along the way. Today we will begin talking about the last book in his trilogy of books looking at U.S. government wars against Native Americans. The first two were: The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West and Tecumseh and the Prophet. The new one ...
Elizabeth Passarella - It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway
May 20, 2023 18:28 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MBMemphis native Elizabeth Passarella is a writer and editor. Currently, she is a contributing editor for Southern Living, and previously worked as an editor at Vogue and Real Simple. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Parents, The Wall Street Journal, among many others. In 2021, she published her first collection of essays, Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York, and recently Thomas Nelson Books released her second collection, It...
Michael Farris Smith - Salvage This World
May 13, 2023 18:14 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBMichael Farris Smith is a novelist who has previously appeared on Book Talk for his books, Rivers, Desperation Road, The Fighter, and Blackwood. His other titles are Nick and The Hands of Strangers. Today we’ll be discussing his latest, Salvage This World, which is published by Little, Brown.
Rebecca Boggs Roberts - Untold Power - part two
April 29, 2023 17:33 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBRebecca Boggs Roberts is a journalist and author, having been a correspondent for NPR, PRI, and the BBC, including the programs Morning Edition, The World, and Talk of the Nation. She is currently the deputy director of events for The Library of Congress. Her first book in 2012, co-authored with Sandra Schmidt, was Historic Congressional Cemetery. Her second was 2017’s Suffragists in Washington, D.C. : The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote. 2020 brought The Suffragist Playbook : You...
Rebecca Boggs Roberts - Untold Power - part one
April 22, 2023 15:31 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBRebecca Boggs Roberts is a journalist and author, having been a correspondent for NPR, PRI, and the BBC, including the programs Morning Edition, The World, and Talk of the Nation. She is currently the deputy director of events for The Library of Congress. Her first book in 2012, co-authored with Sandra Schmidt, was Historic Congressional Cemetery. Her second was 2017’s Suffragists in Washington, D.C. : The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote. 2020 brought The Suffragist Playbook : You...
Eli Cranor - Ozark Dogs
April 15, 2023 15:14 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBEli Cranor is a former pro football player and high school football coach. He’s now a writer with a column in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and has recently published his second novel set in the Arkansas River valley. The first one was Don’t Know Tough, and the new one, recently released by Soho Crime, is Ozark Dogs.
Oline Eaton - Finding Jackie
April 01, 2023 19:03 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBDr. Oline Eaton is a lecturer at Howard University. Today we'll be talking about her first book, Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented, which is published by Diversion Books.
Adam Brookes - Fragile Cargo - Part Two
March 25, 2023 17:53 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBAdam Brookes is back on the program for the second of a two-part interview. Adam is a true world traveler, having been born in Canada, grew up in Britain, and worked all over Asia. He is a journalist and novelist. He primarily served as BBC correspondent for Beijing, Jakarta, and Washington, DC. His novels are Night Heron, Spy Games, and The Spy’s Daughter. Today we’ll finish our discussion his new non-fiction title, Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasure of China’s Forbi...
Adam Brookes - Fragile Cargo - Part One
March 18, 2023 17:51 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBAdam Brookes is on the program today for the first of a two-part interview. Adam is a true world traveler, having been born in Canada, grew up in Britain, and worked all over Asia. He is a journalist and novelist. He primarily served as BBC correspondent for Beijing, Jakarta, and Washington, DC. His novels are Night Heron, Spy Games, and The Spy’s Daughter. Today we’ll begin discussing his new non-fiction title, Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasure of China’s Forbidden ...
Mark Greaney - Burner
March 04, 2023 18:02 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBNew York Times Best-Selling author Mark Greaney returns to the program to talk about the latest installment in his Gray Man series, Burner, which finds Court Gentry facing off against a Russian hit team as they both race to find a phone drive full of international, money-laundering secrets.
Chuck Thompson - The Status Revolution, Part Two
February 18, 2023 17:44 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBChuck Thompson has appeared on Book Talk for his three previous titles, Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, and Better Off Without ’Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession. Today, we have the second of a two-part interview about his most recent book: The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow which is published by Simon and Schuster, and we’ll a...
Chuck Thompson - The Status Revolution, Part One
February 11, 2023 18:47 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MBChuck Thompson has appeared on Book Talk for his three previous titles, Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, and Better Off Without ’Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession. Today, we have the first of a two-part interview about his most recent book: The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow which is published by Simon and Schuster.
Brad Taylor - The Devil’s Ransom
February 04, 2023 18:08 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBBrad Taylor is a retired Army Lt. Colonel who served in what is popularly known as Delta Force. After his service, he became a thriller author, creating the Pike Logan thriller series. We’ll be talking about his brand new one, The Devil’s Ransom, where the covert ops department Logan is part of has been hacked for ransom, to be complicated by Afghan assassins also chasing his target.
Andy Davidson - The Hollow Kind
January 07, 2023 19:03 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBAndy Davidson is an author of literary horror who has garnered much acclaim for his three published novels. The first was In the Valley of the Sun. He visited the WYPL studios in early 2020 to talk about The Boatman's Daughter. Today, he speaks to us from his home in Georgia about his most recent release, The Hollow Kind, which is published MCDxFSG Originals.
Stacy Schiff - The Revoluntionary (Part Two)
November 26, 2022 18:55 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBStacy Schiff is a Pulitzer-winning biographer, having won for Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), among her other works are The Witches: Salem, 1692, Cleopatra: A Life, and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Today we have the second of a two-part interview about her most recent biography, in which she returns to the American Revolution, with The Revolutionary, about the life and times of Samuel Adams, which is published by Little, Brown, and Co.
Stacy Schiff - The Revolutionary (Part One)
November 19, 2022 18:51 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBStacy Schiff is a Pulitzer-winning biographer, having won for Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), among her other works are The Witches: Salem, 1692, Cleopatra: A Life, and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Today we have the first of a two-part interview about her most recent biography, in which she returns to the American Revolution, with The Revolutionary, about the life and times of Samuel Adams, which is published by Little, Brown, and Co.
Teresa Lim - The Interpreter’s Daughter
October 08, 2022 18:48 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MBTeresa Lim is a journalist originally from Singapore, now living in England. She has recently published in America her debut book, a multigenerational memoir of her family’s journey from Southern China in the late 19th century up to the Japanese invasion of Singapore during World War II, entitled: The Interpreter’s Daughter, and it is available in America from Pegasus.
Aram Goudsouzian - Man on a Mission : James Meredith and the Battle of OLE Miss
October 01, 2022 18:34 - 29 minutes - 27 MBAram Goudsouzian is a professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Memphis. He’s appeared on Book Talk before to discuss his books, King of the Court about NBA legend Bill Russell, Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear, and The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America. Today we’ll be talking about his latest project, Man on a Mission:James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Mi...
Jake S. Friedman - Part Two - The Disney Revolt
August 27, 2022 18:00 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBJake S. Friedman is a former animator and current educator, as well as a researcher and writer about the history of animation. His first book was The Art of Blue Sky Studios, and today in the second of a two-part interview, we'll discuss his new book, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age, which is published by Chicago Review Press.
Jake S. Friedman - Part One - The Disney Revolt
August 20, 2022 17:57 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBJake S. Friedman is a former animator and current educator, as well as a researcher and writer about the history of animation. His first book was The Art of Blue Sky Studios, and today in the first of a two-part interview, we'll discuss his new book, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age, which is published by Chicago Review Press.
Grant McCracken - Return of the Artisan
August 13, 2022 17:44 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBGrant McCracken is an anthropologist and author who researches culture and commerce. His previous books include: Culture and Consumption, Plenitude, and Chief Culture Officer. Today we’ll be discussing his most recent title, Return of the Artisan: How America Went from Industrial to Handmade, which is published by Simon Element, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.