Book Talk Podcast - Barry Mazor

Tune in to Book Talk this Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. as Stephen Usery interviews Barry Mazor about his new book Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century. Mississippi native Rogers was one of the world's most popular recording artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and has been elected to the Rock 'n' Roll, Blues, and Country Halls of Fame. Download the podcast while you're waitin' on a train.

Book Talk Podcast - Todd Bottorff

Terri Murphy talks to Todd Bottorff about his self-help guide 21 Things to Create a Better Life. Dowload the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - Philipp Meyer

Stephen Usery interviews Philipp Meyer about his debut novel, American Rust, which is a tale of friendship amidst crime and punishment in a dying steel town in the hills of western Pennsylvania.

Book Talk Podcast - Fiona Maazel

Stephen Usery interview Fiona Maazel about her novel Last Last Chance ,which is now available in paperback. Download the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - Warren St. John

Stephen Usery interviews New York Times reporter Warren St. John about his book Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town about a small town on the edge of Atlanta and a woman trying to reach out to refugee teenage boys through soccer. Download the podcast today.

Book Talk Podcast - Ann B. Ross

Linda Lloyd talks to Miss Julia creator Ann B. Ross about the tenth installment of the series Miss Julia Delivers the Goods.

You can also hear Carolyn Gibson's 2008 interview with Ann about Miss Julia Paints the Town, which is now in paperback.

Book Talk Podcast - Lauretta Hannon

Stephen Usery interviews Georgia native and NPR commentator Lauretta Hannon about her debut book The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life.

Book Talk Podcast - Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant

Susan Gray talks to former models and magazine editors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant about their most recent novel What Doesn't Kill You. Download the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - Carol Higgins Clark

Stephen Usery interviews Carol Higgins Clark about her novel Cursed, the twelfth installment in her popular Reagan Reilly mystery series. Check back in a few weeks, and we will have a video version of the interview available for viewing!

Book Talk Podcast - Kevin Wilson

Stephen Usery talks to Kevin Wilson about his debut collection of short stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.

You can download the podcast here, which has seven extra minutes of conversation not available on the video:


Or watch here:

Book Talk Video - Kevin Wilson from stephen usery on Vimeo.

Book Talk Podcast - Mary Higgins Clark

Stephen Usery interviews the Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark about her newest number one NY Times Bestselling thriller, Just Take My Heart.

You can download the podcast here:


Or watch the video version produced by our sister station WYPL-TV:

WYPL Book Talk - Mary Higgins Clark from stephen usery on Vimeo.

Book Talk Podcast - David Beckwith

Carolyn Gibson talks to David Beckwith about his memoir A New Day in the Delta: Inventing School Desegregation as You Go.

Book Talk Podcast - Ace Atkins

Stephen Usery interviews Ace Atkins about his historical crime novel, The Devil's Garden, which looks at the Fatty Arbuckle scandal which in reality was investigated by Dashiell Hammett before he became a writer.

Book Talk Podcast - Susan Rebecca White

Linda Lloyd talks to Susan Rebecca White about her debut novel, Bound South which is set in the elite social circles of Atlanta, Georgia.

Book Talk Podcast - Joseph Boyden

Stephen Usery interviews Joseph Boyden about his award-winning novel Through Black Spruce. Through Black Spruce won the 2008 Giller prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in his native Canada.

Book Talk Podcast- Dr. Tony Campolo

Stephen Usery interviews Dr. Tony Campolo about his most recent book, Red Letter Christians.

Book Talk Taping - May 6, 2009 - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

A familial double header of best-selling authors will be in to tape two Book Talks. Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark will be at the WYPL studios on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. . Mary Higgins Clark's newest supsense novel Just Take My Heart is at #1 on the NY Times Best Seller List, and Carol Higgins Clark's 12th Reagan Reilly mystery Cursed is also in the top 20 on the sales charts. Seating will be limited, first come, first serve. For more information call (901) 415-2752.

Book Talk Video - Kevin Wilson

Book Talk Video - Kevin Wilson from stephen usery on Vimeo.

Guest: Kevin Wilson
Book: "Tunneling to the Center of the Earth"
Host: Stephen Usery
Editor: Savannah Bearden
Recorded April 15, 2009

Come back on May 23, 2009 for the podcast which will have eight minutes of bonus conversation not in the video!

Book Talk Guest Charles Bock Wins Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction

In another big win for a Book Talk guest, Charles Bock has won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy for Arts and Letters for his debut novel Beautiful Children. Congratulations to the Bockstar! If you haven't heard the interview already, download the podcast today.

Book Talk Podcast - David Robertson

Stephen Usery interviews David Robertson about his new biography of one of the giants of American music, "W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues." It follows Handy from his childhood in Alabama, his life in traveling minstrel shows, his fame in Memphis, and his later years in New York City.

Book Talk Guest Jon Meacham wins the Pulitzer Prize

The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier today, and Book Talk guest Jon Meacham won for Biography. Check out this episode of Book Talk where Stephen Usery interviews the Chatanooga native Meacham (editor of Newsweek magazine) about American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the Whitehouse. The podcast has eight extra minutes of interview goodness AND a Q&A with the audience that followed the taping. (51 minutes total)

Book Talk Podcast - Anne Easter Smith

Stephen Usery interviews Anne Easter Smith about her new historical novel, The King's Grace. The King's Grace follows Grace Plantagenet, the illegitimate daughter of the late King Edward the Fourth of England as Henry the Seventh takes the throne and establishes the House of Tudor as the new monarchs of England.

Book Talk Podcast - Dr. Ronald C. White

Stephen Usery interviews Dr. Ronald C. White about his new book A. Lincoln. Just in time for the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, A. Lincoln is a comprehensive biography that pays particular attention to our 16th President's moral grounding and as his role as commander in chief during the Civil War.

Book Talk Podcast - Dwight Fryer

In this podcast, Susan Gray talks to Dwight Fryer about The Knees of Gullah Island, the prequel to his local best-seller, The Legend of Quito Road.

Book Talk Podcast - Diana Joseph

Download this Book Talk podcast as Stephen Usery interviews Diana Joseph about her touching, and at times hilarious, new memoir about the men in her life, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way. All the cool kids are doing it, so come on, bend to the will of your peer group!