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Speaking of Writers

Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/speakingofwriters/subscribe Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer

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00:31:28

Jonathan Gould-BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE Talking Heads...

Speaking of Writers ·

2025/09/01

On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, Mariner Books is proud to publish acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould’s highly ancipated new book, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock. This deeply researched account captures the grity energy of 1970s New York City and shows how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jonathan Gould is a writer and a former professional musician. A contribung writer for The

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00:23:42

Isabel Canas-The Possession of Alba Diaz

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2025/08/23

Mexican-American author Isabel Cañas blazed onto the horror scene in 2022 with The Hacienda, a stunning Latinx take on the haunted house tale, followed up Vampires of El Norte (2023), an equally rich Western-meets-horror-meets-vampire novel.Cañas’ third novel, THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ (Berkley Hardcover), is a supernatural-meets-body-horror story of demonic possession, set in 1765 among the silver mines of Mexico. Kneading together mysticism and sorcery, the science and supernatural powers of

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00:21:35

Marie Nye -Shutt-Lost Legacies (Book 1)

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2025/08/19

In a world of many supernatural races, most unknown to the world it makes it hard for them to find a mate, so when Dylan Vito meets Rose Bellamy things start getting complicated, but he just can’t stay away from her and it’s a risk he knows he shouldn’t take but can’t help taking, the relationship isn’t the only thing getting complicated. A whirlwind of things become evident in their lives. Can they overcome it all and survive the complications and obstacles coming their way or will things spiral

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00:24:06

Peter Conn- Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting...

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2025/08/16

Philadelphia’s early national history represented in Thomas Sully’s portraitsThomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years. Using those portraits, Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America reconstructs many of the people, institutions, and events that combined to make Philadelphia, from the Revolution until the 1840s, at once the most cosmopolitan and most racially embattled city in America. The book approaches Sully’s

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00:21:00

Martin Dugard-TAKING MIDWAY: Naval Warfare, Secret...

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2025/08/10

1942. Everywhere around the world, the Allies are losing the war. Nowhere is this felt more completely than in thePacific, where Japanese sea and ground forces claim victory after victory. Singapore falls. Then the Philippines. The vaunted American Navy fights to a draw with the Japanese at the Battle of Coral Sea. America's lone moral victory is ColonelJimmy Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo—though even that is tinged with tragedy as two crew members are shot down and beheaded. Meanwhile

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00:25:55

Brian Anderson-LOUD AND CLEAR The Grateful Dead’s...

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2025/08/05

In LOUD AND CLEAR: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection (St. Martin’s Press) journalist Brian Anderson interviewed hundreds of people associated with the band and the construction of the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound itself, including band members, roadies, tech wizards, fans and many more, to tell the full story of the unprecedented and since unparalleled speaker system that was as tall as a school bus is long and more than a hundred feet wide.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BRIAN

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00:19:48

Edward L. Jones III-Medication, Mental Illness, and...

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2025/07/31

In 2005, Kim Crespi had what she later described as “the perfect life.” She and her husband, David—a gentle giant of a man, devoutly religious, a loving father, and a proven star in the world of finance—had five healthy, happy children. No one, least of all Kim, ever suspected that the life the Crespis had lovingly woven together could bedestroyed in less than forty minutes. In January of 2006, while Kim was getting a haircut, Davidmurdered their five-year-old twin daughters during a game of hide

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00:14:32

Lynn Painter- Maid for Each Other

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2025/07/28

As a professional cleaner, Abi Mariano never thought her apartment would have any sort of infestation, but because of a building-wide outbreak, she now needs somewhere to stay for a week. As a part-time student with two jobs, she doesn’t have many options. Then the solution presents itself: the owner of the penthouse she cleans is out of town for the week. She normally wouldn’t consider it, but he’s literally never around (she’s never even met him). It goes great…until she comes out of the bedroom

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00:21:52

Lisa Scottoline-The Unraveling of Julia

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2025/07/26

In THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA, the latest page-turner from #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline , we’re transported tothe captivatingly beautiful hills of Tuscany, where a crumbling villa hides a long-buried family secret. With her trademark combination of vivid, cinematic settings, pulse-pounding suspense, and wonderfully relatable characters, Scottoline delivers an unforgettable story of mystery and psychologicalintrigue. Lisa Scottoline is a #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 37

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00:29:06

Sam Tanenhaus-BUCKLEY -The Life And The Revolution...

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2025/07/22

The definitive biography of William F. Buckley Jr., written by prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus. This monumental work, more than two decades in the making, tells the compelling story of America’s greatest conservative andthe rise and fall of the movement he led. BUCKLEY vividly captures its subject in all his facets and phases, offering an authoritative account of an American giant and the world he made.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sam Tanenhaus, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is

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00:18:00

Adriana Trigiani- The View From Lake Como

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2025/07/16

The View From Lake Como is everything an immersive summer read should be—fresh, funny and heart-wrenching, with perfectly imperfect characters that readers will feel deeply connected to. With its vivid depiction of the complexities of familial relationships, this contemporary novel is a love letter to big Italian American families, Old World roots, and daughters who learn to live life on their own terms. ABOUT ADRIANA TRIGIANI Adriana Trigiani is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one

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00:17:11

Richard Kopley- Edgar Allan Poe: A Life

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2025/07/10

Richard Kopley, Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, Penn State DuBois, has written and edited books that focus on nineteenth-century American literature, with particular attention to Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They are accessible and revealing works of analysis and discovery.

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00:21:13

Alex North- The Man Made of Smoke

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2025/07/07

Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime hewitnessed as a child—narrowly escaping an encounter with a notorious serial killer. He has dedicated his life since to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims. So when his father passes away undersuspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these

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00:18:05

R. J. Koreto-THE CADIEUX MURDERS: A Historic Homes...

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2025/07/04

The Cadieux House has a dark past: in 1955, it was the site of the never-solved murder of its owner, Dennis Blaine. Cadieux himself was alleged to be having an affair with Dennis’s wife, the stunningly beautiful Rebecca. It seems like yesterday’s headlines, but then someone starts killing people with a connection to the house. The home’s new owner—bestselling novelist Brownwyn Merrick—may be using the house to launch a fictionalized account of the 1955 crime. But someone may not want her to. Just

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00:15:40

Scott Ellsworth-Midnight on The Potomac

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2025/07/02

From Scott Ellsworth, the author of The GroundBreaking, which was longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. His latest is a page-turning, eye-opening account of the last desperate months of the Civil War, when the very future of the United States teetered on the brink amidst ideological clashes and political extremism. But more than that, MIDNIGHT ON THE POTOMAC: The LastYear of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the

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00:16:40

Jason Bailey- GANDOLFINI: Jim, Tony and the Life of a...

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2025/06/29

More than a decade after his sudden passing, James Gandolfini still exerts a powerful pull on television and film enthusiasts around the world. His charismatic portrayal of complex, flawed, but always human men illuminated the contradictions in all of us, as well as our potential for grace, and the power of love and family. This new biography from Bailey is based on extensive research and original reporting, including interviews with friends and collaborators.In GANDOLFINI, Bailey traces the twinned

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00:16:33

Paul Thomas Chamberlin-Scorched Earth A Global...

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2025/06/21

In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe. The war was sparked by German and

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00:10:57

Dr. Eric N Haley- It Starts at the Dinner Table: What...

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2025/06/17

"It Starts at the Dinner Table," is a self help book to help 11-25 year old's to set goals and plan out their life, so that they can be successful. To often, young people drift along in life and lose too many valuable years wherein they could be productive. We fall into the 40/40/40 rule of life. What happens is our parents encourage us to get a good education in order to get a good paying job. It goes like this. We get serious about life at age 25 and work 40 hours a week for 40

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00:16:02

Kaira Rouda- Jill is Not Happy

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2025/06/10

Bonfire of the Vanities meets War of the Roses in this latest thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of Best Day Ever and The Next Wife, in which an ill-fated road trip resurrects a married couple's darkest secrets.About the authorKaira Rouda is an award–winning, USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author of contemporary fiction that explores what goes on beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Her novels of domestic suspense include The Widow, Somebody’s Home, The Next Wife, The

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00:26:57

Steve Albert -A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...

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2025/06/08

In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Broadcast Booth, Hall of Fame sportscaster Steve Albert chronicles the ups, downs, and unforeseen mishaps that occurred throughout his lifelong journey on the air.From getting nailed in the head by an errant LeBron James pass, to ducking bottles thrown in boxing arena riots, to frightful flights and car trips, Steve discovered that doing play-by-play was a surprisingly hazardous profession. Thankfully, calling games and fights was also pretty

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