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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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00:13:47

Payton and Brees The Men Who Built the Greatest...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/11/05

A rare, behind the scenes look at the Saints over more than 14 seasons As the city was rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina, Sean Payton arrived in 2006 as a relative unknown, a first-time NFL head coach tasked with resurrecting a New Orleans Saints team that had just finished 3-13. Two months after Payton was hired, the Saints signed a free agent quarterback who was cast aside by the San Diego Chargers:Drew Brees. Together, these two underdogs joined forces and transformed the Saints from

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00:11:21

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of...

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2020/11/04

From New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser come the highly anticipated THE MAN WHO RAN WASHINGTON: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (Doubleday) — an unmatched case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power told through an account of one of the most significant and influential leaders in modern American government never to serve as president of the United States. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are longtime

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00:13:28

The Zealot And The Emancipator By H. W. Brands

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2020/11/03

In his 2012 bestseller, The General vs. the President, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands provided a thrilling, personality-driven narrative of two figures whose destinies collided at an epic turning point in American history: President Truman, General MacArthur, and the emerging Cold War. Now, the New York Times bestselling historian turns his attention to the epic struggle over slavery in THE ZEALOT AND THE EMANCIPATOR (Doubleday). With clear parallels to our current moment, Brands

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00:15:26

Our Last Season A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship Harvey...

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2020/11/02

Harvey Araton is one of New York’s—and the nation’s—best-known sports journalists, having covered thousands of Knicks games over the course of a long and distinguished career. But the person at the heart of OUR LAST SEASON: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship , is Michelle Musler, a fan who was largely anonymous—except, that is, to the players,coaches, and writers who passed through Madison Square Garden. Musler held season tickets behind the Knicks bench and missed only a few games over the course of 45

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00:10:58

Crazy Stupid Bromance By Lyssa Kay Adams

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2020/10/29

With the release of 2018’s The Bromance Book Club, Lyssa Kay Adams established herself as an auto-buy author for romance fans. Her incisive take on toxic masculinity and how reading romance novels can emotionally educate them also garnered attention from major national media including the New York Times Book Review, NBC’s TODAY Show, Entertainment Weekly, Men’s Health, NPR and more. CRAZY STUPID BROMANCE (Berkley Jove Trade Original) is the third book in Adams’ beloved series and is a prime example

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00:18:31

His Very Best Jimmy Carter, A Life By Jonathan Alter

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2020/10/27

About HIS VERY BEST Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure—ridiculed and later revered—with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of

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00:12:09

The Residence By Andrew Pyper

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2020/10/26

Tragedy strikes in 1853 when President-Elect Franklin Pierce is travelling with his family to D.C. In an instant, their train derails, violently flinging passengers about its cabins. The only fatality is the Pierces’ eleven-year-old son, Bennie. Something unspeakable invades the only haunted house residents are not permitted to leave. Only by confronting the depths of their grief and their darkest secrets can the President and First Lady hope to rid themselves—and America—from the curse that haunts

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00:13:39

Beneficence by Meredith Hall

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2020/10/26

A family of five lives on a dairy farm in Maine. They put up hay and separate milk and clean the barn and wean the calves. When something unimaginable—yet somehow inevitable—occurs, they become a family of four. From that moment, guilt permeates and propels this novel. MEREDITH HALL is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Without a Map, which was named Best Book of the Year by Kirkusand BookSense, and was Elle’s “Readers’ Pick of the Year.” The recipient of the 2004 Gift of Freedom

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00:11:01

Near-Life Experience By Emma G. Rose

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2020/10/24

Eric just wants to do his job as an EMT. He’s mostly recovered from the freak accident that put him in the hospital. There’s just one thing still bothering him—the ghosts. At least, he thinks they’re ghosts. They only seem to show up when one of his patients is close to death. In Eric’s case, “close to Death” is more than a figure of speech. The Reaper is not thrilled about Eric’s newfound abilities. Humans aren’t even supposed to see the souls of the nearly departed. They’re certainly not supposed

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00:10:11

American Rule How a Nation Conquered the World but...

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2020/10/22

Since the country’s founding, Americans in power have subjugated others for personal gain, making their fortunes through slavery, plundering resources and land, fighting to prevent and destroy organized labor, and weaving inequality into the nation’s laws. In AMERICAN RULE: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People (Dutton), Jared Yates Sexton, author of the critically acclaimed The Man They Wanted Me to Be and The People Are Going To Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore, exposes

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00:13:47

Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug...

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2020/10/18

In MAINLINING PHILLY: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug Addiction, Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter, PsyD., tells her disturbing but inspirational story of growing up as the child of drug addicts. Meeting Dr. Geri-Lynn, a Philadelphia native for the first time, it would be easy to assume she’s the product of the elite schools and glossy social life of the Mainline. But in fact, Geri-Lynn grew up in Kensington, her father and her mother both lifelong drug addicts. She saw first-hand the torment of addiction. The

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00:09:43

I Am Anne Frank and I Am Benjamin Franklin By Brad...

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2020/10/17

The New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World series welcomes the 21st and 22nd additions to the collection this fall: I AM ANNE FRANK and I AM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. The inception for this series, now with more than 3.5 million copies in print, came from a personal place for Brad Meltzer: he wanted to give his own children heroes of character, kindness, and compassion – he did not want his children to emulate someone simply “famous for being famous” on social media. From his love of

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00:17:33

The Killer's Shadow By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

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2020/10/16

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of MINDHUNTER and THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer and one of the most disturbing psychopaths he has ever encountered. Author Bio: John Douglas, the legendary FBI criminal profiler, special agent,

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00:13:32

Invisible Girl- Lisa Jewell

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2020/10/15

Whether you know her from her million-copy and #1 New York Times bestselling phenomena Then She Was Gone or her Good Morning America book club pick The Family Upstairs, or even if you haven’t read her at all, Lisa Jewell’s INVISIBLE GIRL (Atria Books) should be your must-read suspense novel of the fall. From her very first novel, Ralph’s Party, which was published in the States way back in 1999 and was the bestselling debut novel in her native UK that year, Lisa has consistently written stories that

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00:10:55

On All Fronts:The Education of a Journalist By...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/10/14

Over the past months, viewers have watched Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent, report from the Syria-Turkish border as Kurdish families fled Turkish artillery; Ukraine, where she went to the front lines of the Ukrainian army’s fight against Russian-backed separatists; from inside a Russian troll factory in Ghana; and most recently on COVID-19 vaccine human trials at the University of Oxford—while eight months pregnant, from her living room home base. With her deep empathy for

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00:11:26

ABE: Abraham Lincoln in his Times By David S. Reynolds

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2020/10/13

David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Penguin Press) is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War, and a framework for understanding the politics of our own divided

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00:13:46

Unrestricted Access New and Classic Short Fiction by...

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2020/10/12

In this breathtaking new publication, James Rollins brings together twelve thrilling stories that dig deeper into his creative stomping grounds and open vistas into new landscapes and characters. At the center of UNRESTRICTED ACCESS is the never-before-published novella "Sun Dogs.” While trekking through the Sonora desert, a gunshot thrusts Tucker and Kane into an adventure that challenges their considerable skills. The discovery of secrets known only to the native tribes of Arizona threatens to

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00:14:12

THE PRESIDENTS VS. THE PRESS by Harold Holzer

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2020/10/10

Seldom has our free press faced so great a threat, and yet, the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. George Washington, upon seeing an unflattering caricature of himself in a local newspaper “got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself,” according to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Every president since has been tested by the American media. Since the Founding Era, almost everything about access and expectation, literacy and

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00:11:26

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

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2020/10/09

About Confessions on the 7:45: Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she's been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When the train arrives at Selena's station, the two women part ways,

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00:09:55

The Searcher by Tana French

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2020/10/08

New York Times bestselling author Tana French is that rare breed of writer who creates great excitement with the publication of each of her crime novels. Her eighth novel and second standalone, THE SEARCHER (Viking), has already become a standout and a critic favorite. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tana French is the author of seven previous books, including In the Woods, The Likeness, and The Witch Elm. Her novels have sold over three million copies and won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony,

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