Saturday, February 27, 2010
Podcast - Amy Greene
Stephen Usery interviews Amy Greene about her New York Times best-selling debut novel Bloodroot, which follows four generations of women in the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee.
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book talk,
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podcast,
stephen usery
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Podcast - Jeffrey Jackson
Stephen Usery interviews Rhodes College professor Jeffrey Jackson about his latest look into French history with Paris Underwater: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910. It's an intriguing look on how many with very real political and economic differences came together and endured one of the River Seine's worst floods ever.
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flood,
interview,
jeffrey jackson,
paris,
podcast,
rhodes,
stephen usery
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Podcast - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Stephen Usery interviews Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl about their supernatural young adult novel Beautiful Creatures, which Amazon named the fifth best book of 2009.
Podcast - Kimberla Lawson Roby
Stephen speaks to best selling author Kimberla Lawson Roby about the second book to follow Alicia Black, the daughter of Reverend Curtis Black, in Be Careful What You Pray For.
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book talk,
interview,
kimberla lawson roby,
podcast,
stephen usery
Monday, February 8, 2010
Podcast - Rebecca Skloot
Stephen Usery interviews Rebecca Skloot about her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It's a fascinating look into HeLa cells which were the most important advance in medical research for the twentieth century, but more than that we meet Henrietta Lacks the woman who provided the cells and the grief her loss caused her family, and it looks at the socio-economic impact the HeLa cells have had on our country and world. This is an intriguing 72 minute audio interview with Rebecca; please download it today. Just click on the white box with the blue musical note and it will take you to the download page.
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book talk,
hela,
henrietta lacks,
interview,
podcast,
rebecca skloot,
stephen usery
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