Book Talk Rebroadcasts Weekdays!

Recently, WMC-TV5 shortened their noon television newscast to 30 minutes. We decided to start airing rebroadcasts of Book Talk at 12:30 p.m. each weekday. Many of you have called into ask about the guests on each day's program, so we'll start posting the weekly line up with links to their podcast page. Thanks so much for listening to Book Talk and FM89.3 WYPL.

Monday, October 28 - Porter Shreve - When The White House Was Ours
Tuesday, October 29 - Oscar Hijuelos - Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Wednesday, October 30 - Kami Garcia - Unbreakable
Thursday, October 31 - Robert Olen Butler - Hell
Friday, November 01 - Amy Franklin-Willis - The Lost Saints of Tennessee

Podcast - Kami Garcia

Stephen Usery welcomes Kami Garcia back to the program. Kami is one half of the duo responsible for the NY Times best-selling YA supernatural series, Beautiful Creatures a.k.a. The Caster Chronicles. Just in time for Halloween, she makes her solo debut with Unbreakable, the first in The Legion series about a teenage girl named Kennedy who is forced into a secret world of those who fight malevolent spirits on Earth.

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Broadcast - October 26 & 27, 2013 - Kami Garcia

Tune into Book Talk this week as Stephen Usery welcomes Kami Garcia back to the program. Kami is one half of the duo responsible for the NY Times best-selling YA supernatural series, Beautiful Creatures a.k.a. The Caster Chronicles. Just in time for Halloween, she makes her solo debut with Unbreakable, the first in The Legion series about a teenage girl named Kennedy who is forced into a secret world of those who fight malevolent spirits on Earth. Kami Garcia on this week's Book Talk, Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. on FM89.3 WYPL Memphis.

Podcast - Julie Cantrell

Stephen Usery interviews Julie Cantrell about her second novel, When Mountains Move, the follow-up to her best-selling and award-winning debut, Into the Free. Set in 1943, 17-year-old Millie Reynolds marries Bump Anderson,  and they move from Mississippi to Colorado to start a cattle ranch and leave her secret traumas behind.

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Podcast - Michael Farris Smith

Stephen Usery interviews Michael Farris Smith about his new novel, Rivers. It's the story of a man named Cohen trying to survive the Mississippi Gulf coast in the near future where climate change has brought an endless succession of hurricanes to the area. The Federal government has declared the area a no-man's land where services or assistance will be not provided.

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Podcast - Jesmyn Ward

Stephen Usery welcomes National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward back to the program. They will be discussing her new memoir, Men We Reaped, the story not only of her life but also the deaths of five young African-American men close to her family in rural southern Mississippi, including her only brother.

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