Book Talk Podcast - Lydia Peelle

Stephen Usery interviews Nashville resident Lydia Peelle about Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, her first collection of award-winning short stories. Download the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - Robert Dalby

Linda Lloyd talks to Robert Dalby about the third installment of his series set in Second Creek, Mississippi A Piggly Wiggly Wedding.

Book Talk Podcast - David O. Stewart

Stephen Usery interviews David O. Stewart about his book Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy. It's a fascinating look into the event that presaged the squandered hope of Reconstruction following the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Download the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Susan Gray talks to one of America's most successful inspirational fiction writers ReShonda Tate Billingsley about her new novel The Devil is a Lie.

Book Talk Podcast - Megan Abbott

Stephen Usery interviews Edgar Award winner and reigning crown princess of noir Megan Abbott about her latest look at the seamy side of the human experience, Bury Me Deep.

Book Talk Podcast - Gin Phillips

Host Carolyn Gibson talks to Gin Phillips about her debut novel The Well and the Mine, which looks at the complicated familial and racial relationships in the coal mining area of northern Alabama in the 1930s.

Book Talk Podcast - Attica Locke

In this podcast, Stephen Usery interviews Attica Locke about her debut novel, Black Water Rising, which is set in Houston, Texas's oil boom in the early 1980s as the legacy of racism and corporate greed come to a head.

Book Talk Podcast - Sam Haskell

Stephen Usery interviews Sam Haskell about his book, Promises I Made My Mother. It's a memoir that tracks the moral grounding Haskell's mother gave him and how it helped in his personal life and his career as the head of television for the legendary William Morris talent agency. Download the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - Frank McNair

Stephen Usery talks to Frank McNair about The Golden Rules for Managers: 119 Incredible Lessons for Leadership Success, his collection of pithy maxims for managers new and experienced.

Book Talk Podcast - Simon Van Booy

In this episode of Book Talk, Stephen Usery interviews British writer Simon Van Booy about his second collection of short stories Love Begins in Winter.

Author E. Lynn Harris Passes Away at 54

One of Arkansas's and America's most successful writers, E. Lynn Harris died Thursday, July 23rd.

Fayetteville (AR) Flyer article on his passing.

Here is Stephen Usery's 2008 interview of bestselling author E. Lynn Harris about his novel set in the world of college football, Just Too Good to Be True .

Book Talk Podcast - Neil White

Stephen Usery interviews Neil White about his memoir, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts. It's an extremely moving telling of White's time in a federal prison for bank fraud in Carville, Louisiana which in the early 1990s shared facilities with the last American colony for survivors of leprosy, which is now known as Hansen's disease. The podcast has 17 extra minutes of conversation!

Book Talk Podcast - Mary Kay Andrews

Linda Lloyd talks to Mary Kay Andrews about her latest, juicy slice of southern hi jinks in The Fixer Upper. Download, listen, enjoy!

Book Talk Podcast - John Hart

Stephen Usery interviews Edgar Award-winning author John Hart about his latest thriller, The Last Child, in which a teenage boy searches for his sister a year after her abduction. Download the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - Izzy Rose

Stephen Usery talks to Izzy Rose about her memoir The Package Deal: My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom. Download the podcast today!

Book Talk Podcast - Karen Essex

Stephen Usery interviews Karen Essex about her latest historical novel, Stealing Athena which looks at women involved in the creation of the Parthenon and the British removal of many statues from there in the early 19th century.

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!