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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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00:15:41

Greg Peters- Our National Forests

Speaking of Writers ·

2021/11/24

Stories from America’s Most Important Public Lands Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests provide a multitude of uses as diverse as America itself. Welcoming 170 million visitors each year to hike, bike, paddle, ski, fish, and hunt, “the people’s lands” offer more than just recreation. Timber is harvested, lost habitats are recovered, and endangered wildlife is protected as part of the Forest Service’s enduring mission. In Our

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00:10:18

Genevieve Piturro- Purpose, Passion and Pajamas

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2021/11/20

Genevieve M. Piturro took a big risk when she gave up the security of a successful job as the vice president of creative services for a television syndicate to launch the national nonprofit Pajama Program, which gives children cozy pajamas and inspiring storybooks , while providing critical sleep health education resources for parents, caregivers, and educators. Genevieve was inspired to start the Pajama Program by a little girl she met when she volunteered in a New York City shelter. Noticing

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00:11:25

Tom Clavin- Lightning Down

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2021/11/09

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying

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00:09:32

Todd Doughty- Little Pieces of Hope Happy Making...

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2021/10/27

In March 2020 Todd Doughty knew he needed to do something to help him stay connected to the everyday joys of daily life, so he made a list on Instagram of things that make him happy: Someone believing in you. Your foot sticking out from under a blanket in order to find the cool spot. Freshly cut yellow tulips. A really good burger. In the following weeks, as he continued to post lists and as a community started to build up around them, Doughty realized that staying connected to everyday joys

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00:11:16

Samantha Durbin- Raver Girl

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2021/10/18

About the book: Set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's 90s rave scene, Raver Girl details Samantha’s double life as she teeters between self-indulgence and sobriety, chaos and calm, all while sneaking under the radar of her entrepreneur father. About the author: SAMANTHA DURBIN’S writing has appeared in POPSUGAR ,Yahoo Style , Real Simple , PureWow , Zagat , The Bold Italic , and The San Francisco Chronicle , among others. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two

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00:13:47

Hank Phillippi Ryan- Her Perfect Life

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2021/10/14

Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan returns with a lightning-paced novel of suspense that will keep readers guessing until the last page: HER PERFECT LIFE (A Forge Hardcover, eBook, and Macmillan Audio). Touching on issues of privacy, family secrets, social media, and living life in the public eye— that’s something Ryan, the longtime on-camera investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, understands more than anyone. And that makes HER PERFECT LIFE

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00:13:49

George F. Will- AMERICAN HAPPINESS AND DISCONTENTS:...

Speaking of Writers ·

2021/10/06

Since 1974, George F. Will has been a steadfast voice of wisdom and reason for the American people. One of this country’s leading columnists and the author of fifteen previous books, Will has been called “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America” by the Wall Street Journal. Now, he returns with his ninth and most expansive collection reflecting on American culture and the many attacks on expertise, rationality, and conduct by American institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues

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00:16:17

Linda Sands- Precious Cargo

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2021/09/28

After helping a frightened girl who flagged down their Kenworth in Austin and delivering her to safety, trucker Jojo Boudreaux and co-driver Gator Natoli believe that’s the end of it. Until they find her again in Oklahoma City, and this time she doesn’t want to be saved. They soon find themselves pulled into dangerous territory. Somali Mafia territory. A place where powerful people manipulate a hundred-billion-dollar industry of prostitution, drugs and international sex trafficking. A place where

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00:13:01

Jai Chakrabarti- A Play For The End Of the World

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2021/09/22

Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has just entered a new relationship with Lucy Gardener—a southerner, also newly arrived in New York—when he learns his oldest friend, Misha, has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there alone to collect his ashes, Jaryk soon realizes this won’t be as simple a trip as he thought once he learns that Misha had been in the midst of staging a play there, Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office. Performed in Paris

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00:14:06

Marc Straus- One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies,...

Speaking of Writers ·

2021/09/21

Set in 1950s New York in the shadow of the execution of the Rosenbergs, the memoir documents two pivotal years of Straus’s childhood on Long Island, beginning with him being forced by his parents to leave public school and commute four hours a day to a Yeshiva in Queens where the kids studied the Talmud—in the original Aramaic—for half a day five days a week and fought with words, not fists. But it was fists that Straus was used to after years of fighting off bigger kids who harassed his younger,

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00:12:30

Matthew FitzSimmons- Constance

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2021/09/12

In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying. After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness—stored for that inevitable transition—something goes wrong. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later. Her recent memories

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00:11:57

Susan Ronald - The Ambassador

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2021/09/12

In THE AMBASSADOR: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 (St. Martin’s Press) acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald examines a controversial period in the career of America’s legendary political dynasty founder. Meticulously researched Ronald gained access to many newly available sources and reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born and raised in the United States, Susan Ronald is a

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00:14:35

Tom Flynn- A Girl Named Dara

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2021/09/05

When Jeff Newcastle meets Dara, a beautiful Belarusian girl, on the first day of poetry class at UCLA, he imagines he’s stumbled onto the perfect college romance. Unfortunately, his fixation on Dara’s beauty prevents him from seeing the truth about her tragic life. Doubting a normal relationship could ever be possible, Dara pulls some mysterious strings to redirect Jeff’s affection toward Carey, a sweet and kindhearted coed in Jeff’s circle of friends. Jeff’s romance with Carey blossoms steadily

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00:11:08

Christopher Clarey- The Master: The Long Run and...

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2021/08/28

ABOUT THE BOOK There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick. In THE MASTER, New York Times correspondent Christopher Clarey sits down with Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis. Roger Federer has often made it look astonishingly easy through the

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00:12:42

Megan Collins - The Family Plot

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2021/08/27

Sharon Tate, Andrew Borden, Charlie Lindbergh, Black Dahlia—if you immediately recognize these murder victims, then you’re a Murderino just like Megan Collins. Her third thriller, The Family Plot (Atria), hailed “the quintessential summer thriller for true crime enthusiasts” by Apartment Therapy, follows an unconventional family obsessed with true crime—until they’re at the center of one. The Lighthouse siblings were raised in a secluded Rhode Island mansion by true crime-obsessed parents, who named

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00:10:19

Kent Babb- Across The River: Life, Death, and...

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2021/08/22

There are two New Orleans: the glamorous party city that tourists see and the day-to-day reality of the heavily segregated Black neighborhoods outside the French Quarter. That more real New Orleans is defined by economic inequality, street violence, drugs, and institutional racism. For the young people born and raised there, it is the land of no opportunity—indeed, many struggle just to survive to adulthood. One of the few paths to success for teenage boys is football, which offers a way out with

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00:11:35

Michael Blanding- North by Shakespeare

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2021/08/21

In North by Shakespeare, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar Dennis McCarthy, called “the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community,” and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the previously undiscovered source for Shakespeare’s plays. For the last fifteen years, Dennis McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true source of Shakespeare’s works—with fascinating results. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet,

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00:11:32

Tracey Lange- We Are The Brennans

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2021/08/19

When 29-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation, and they’ve got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays,

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00:16:58

Ben Coes- The Island

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2021/08/19

Ben Coes is a NYT bestselling author of political thriller and espionage novels who draws upon his early career at the White House, and his Godfather’s experience as a Navy Seal, to write realistic books with plots that could be ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. In Coe’s latest book, THE ISLAND (St. Martin’s Press), America faces the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 as Iran puts a plan in motion to exact revenge for years of sanctions. Another of Iran’s goals is to neutralize the CIA’s most

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00:13:35

Ace Atkins- The Heathens

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2021/08/15

With his Quinn Colson novels, New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins has created one of today’s most atmospheric and critically acclaimed literary series. But Atkins delivers something far more complex and rewarding than brilliantly crafted whodunits—he delivers essential summer reading full of wit, thrills, and heart. “It’s a satisfying mix of modern Southern gothic atmosphere and thrilling action, salted with crackling humor,” according to the Tampa Bay Times. “Readers get more than a

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