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Podcast Description
Every year the Georgia Center for the Book and the DeKalb County Public Library in Georgia bring many top authors to the library to speak about and read from their work. This podcast brings you recordings from many of these author talks.
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Karin Slaughter | Atlanta’s own Karin Slaughter The New York Times’ and #1 international bestselling author of ten thrillers, talked about her latest spellbinding book, Broken. It’s not just the page-turning plotting and unexpected twists that make Karin’s [...] | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deborah Blum | Deborah Blum is the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer of a new book, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Blum’s true story, which reads like a first-rate novelist’s tale, features a [...] | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Young and Natasha Trethewey | Kevin Young is one of America’s most acclaimed young poets, and he talked with us about the new volume of poetry that he edited called The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing. Young is the author of several notable books of poetry including [...] | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jayne Anne Phillips | Set in West Virginia, Jayne Anne Phillips’ National Book Award-nominated Lark & Termite is her first book in nine years. Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, it is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications [...] | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gordon S. Wood | Gordon S. Wood is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and one of America’s most distinguished historians of early America. He joined us on November 9, 2009 to discuss his new book, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. [...] | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Lee Williams talks with Terry Kay | Philip Lee Williams is one of Georgia’s finest authors and winner of the Michael Shaara Award for his Civil War novel A Distant Flame. He returns with an exciting, new Civil War story, The Campfire Boys. Williams is a novelist, poet and essayist [...] | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wil Haygood Discusses Sugar Ray Robinson | Wil Haygood is the author of a riveting new biography, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, one of the greatest boxers in history. Haygood’s book is “a biography worthy of a great athlete and an important social force,” [...] | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wendell Potter | In 2009, Wendell Potter made headlines all over the country when he testified before Congress that many in the health insurance business are corrupt and are dedicated to denying benefits to consumers while spending billions on lobbying to protect [...] | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R. A. Salvatore | The author of more than 40 books, a dozen of them New York Times’ bestsellers, Salvatore has a terrific, exciting new book: The Ghost King: Transitions, Book III, the gripping conclusion to the Transitions trilogy. When the Spellplague ravages [...] | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Olen Butler | Robert Olen Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, visits us to discuss his stunning new novel, Hell. It’s a hilarious romp, all about good, evil and free will and one of the year’s best novels. You’ll meet a television news anchorman now [...] | 11/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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- Category: Literature
- Language: English
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