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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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00:10:33

JAX MILLER - HELL IN THE HEARTLAND: Murder, Meth, and...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/08/03

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jax Miller is an American author. While hitchhiking across America in her twenties, she wrote her first novel, Freedom's Child, for which she won the 2016 Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle and earned several CWA Dagger nominations. She has received acclaim from the New York Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, and many more. She now works in the true-crime genre, having penned her much-anticipated book and acting as creator, host, and executive producer on the true-crime documentary

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00:09:32

Julian Zelizer-BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Newt Gingrich,...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/31

One of America’s premier historians traces the origin story of our deeply partisan times, examining how Newt Gingrich and his allies reshaped Washington with an anti-establishment, take-no-prisoners approach to politics When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years.” In BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Newt Gingrich,

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00:11:20

Larry Tye- Demagogue

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/30

Demagogue is two books in one – a biography of Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, one of the most reviled figures in U.S. history, and a broader look at America’s long-standing love affair with bullies. Author Larry Tye got the first-ever access to McCarthy’s personal and professional papers, medical and military records, love letters, wartime diaries, and other files that had been under lock and key for half a century. Examining this fresh evidence of McCarthy’s official excesses, and of his

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00:10:32

Brian Freeman- Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Evolution

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/30

About THE BOURNE EVOLUTION: After the death of his lover in a mass shooting, secret agent and the man without a past, Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it seems. Worse, he believes that Treadstone, the clandestine spy agency that trained him, is behind the killing. Bourne goes rogue, leaving Treadstone behind and taking on a new mission to infiltrate and expose Medusa, a shadowy, anarchical cyber-enemy intent on harvesting and controlling the world’s private

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00:12:02

Megan Collins- Behind The Red Door

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/29

From the author of the “suspenseful, atmospheric, and completely riveting” (Megan Miranda) Book of the Month Club selection The Winter Sister (2019), Megan Collins returns with this summer’s breakout thriller, Behind the Red Door ( Atria). A gripping, sinister page-turner that seems ripped straight from the headlines, it centers on a woman who feels a mysterious connection to the victim of an infamous decades old kidnapping. When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a

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00:10:54

Julie Pennell- Louisiana Lucky

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/29

Julie Pennell, author of the critically acclaimed debut, The Young Wives Club, returns with her latest Southern charmer, LOUISIANA LUCKY . For fans of Mary Alice Monroe and Kristy Woodson Harvey, the story stars three sisters who win a huge lottery prize. Lexi, Callie, and Hanna Breaux grew up in small-town Louisiana, and have always struggled to make ends meet. When the incredible happens and the Breaux sisters hit it big—$204 million dollars big—all their dreams come true… Or so they think

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00:11:14

Shari Lapena- The End of Her

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/28

A new domestic suspense novel from Shari Lapena, theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Couple Next DoorandSomeone We Know. Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin girls. The babies are a handful, but even as Stephanie struggles with the disorientation of sleep deprivation, there's one thing she's sure of: she has all she ever wanted. Then Erica, a woman from Patrick's past, appears and makes a disturbing accusation. Patrick had always said his first wife's death was

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00:11:14

Kevin Kwan- Sex and Vanity

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/28

The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds – the WASP establishment of her father’s family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with. On her very fist morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao, and she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with

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00:13:31

Colin Woodard-UNION: The Struggle to Forge the Story...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/24

In his popular book, American Nations, award-winning journalist Colin Woodard argued for the existence of 11 separate stateless nations within the United States, where rival cultures explain history, identity, and voting behaviors. With his new book, UNION: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood (Viking), Woodard expands on a theme from Nations: how the cherished idea of a unified country has ignored the basic facts of our history. In this fascinating study of a fractured

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00:08:52

Archie Brown- The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan,...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/24

In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these

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00:12:16

Ted Bell- Dragonfire

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/24

About DRAGONFIRE In 1941, the new Chinese ambassador to the United States, Tiger Tang, meets with President Roosevelt one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the next four years, China and the U.S. will be wartime allies, but the charming, sophisticated ambassador may be playing his own treacherous game. But today, while Alex Hawke is recovering from serious injuries incurred during a mission, his recuperation is interrupted by a desperate call from the Queen. Her grandson has disappeared in

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00:10:19

Christopher J. Leahy-President Without a Party- The...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/17

Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party—the first full- scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades—Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the United States. Born in the Virginia Tidewater into an elite family sympathetic to the ideals of the American Revolution, Tyler, like his father, worked as an attorney before

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00:09:33

Todd Zolecki-Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/17

Roy “Doc” Halladay was an All-Star, a two-time Cy Young winner, a superstar and ultimately a Hall of Famer. But Roy was also a quiet enigma, a man who worked harder than anyone and let his pitches do his talking. He intimidated opponents, and his silent intensity hung between him and the media, his fans and even some of his teammates. In Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay (Triumph Books), longtime Phillies writer Todd Zolecki reveals the real Roy Halladay in a way which has never been done before

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00:11:52

Ace Atkins- The Revelators

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/17

Former Army Ranger Quinn Colson returned a decade ago to his native Tibbehah County, Mississippi, to serve as sheriff. In the last nine books of the series, he has sparred with white supremacists, collided with corrupt religious leaders, and grappled with issues of racism on his home turf. New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins writes, “The genesis of the series was to write about the new South, what’s happening right now. And you can’t really escape the rise of Trumpism and its effect on

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00:07:42

Tracy Tutor-FEAR IS JUST A FOUR-LETTER WORD: How to...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/16

Behind Tracy Tutor's entertaining on-screen persona is an uncanny knack for projecting confidence in the most intimidating of circumstances. The breezy, tough-talking, utterly inimitable LA real estate broker has rivaled her male co-stars to land increasingly high-profile deals. In FEAR IS JUST A FOUR-LETTER WORD: How to Develop the Unstoppable Confidence to Own Any Room, Tracy leverages her years of experience to provide the go-to manual for women who struggle to convince people they're in charge

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00:10:15

Megha Majumdar- A Burning

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/15

A BURNING is about three characters whose lives become entwined after a terrorist attack in India. It is taut, electrifying, and dazzling. “I started writing A Burning from a place of alarm and anger,” says Megha Majumdar, “I saw a world changing in frightening ways, growing more intolerant of minority communities and more extremist, and I wanted to look at individuals caught within those turns of society.” Megha grew up in Kolkata, India and studied social anthropology at Harvard and Johns

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00:10:28

Sara Paretsky- Love & Other Crimes

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/14

In this spellbinding collection, Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents in a new V.I. Warshawski story, along with fourteen additional short stories, eight of those featuring the indomitable detective. As Publishers Weekly praised, ““The love that really comes through in each story is the love and empathy Paretsky has for her all-too-human characters.” Paretsky is the master of twisting suspense and pacey plot. She is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Master Award

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00:08:57

Jane L Rosen- Eliza Starts A Rumor

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/14

About ELIZA STARTS A RUMOR by Jane L. Rosen Eliza Hunt is the creator of the Hudson Valley Ladies’ Bulletin Board, a local social media group for the mothers of her community just north of New York City that she started when her twins were barely out of diapers. Fifteen years later, with an empty nest and a crippling secret affliction—agoraphobia—it’s brought to her attention that the younger moms in her town no longer have any use for the group she prides herself in running. Instead, there’s a new

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00:19:42

Mark Cannizzaro- Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the...

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/07/02

In Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes at the Masters (Triumph Books), veteran New York Post sportswriter Mark Cannizzaro explores the rich history and deep connection between Augusta National and the world’s most iconic and prestigious golf tournament. Cannizzaro, who’s covered a quarter century of Masters tournaments, combines his experience and passion for the sport in this engaging collection of essays. Loaded with insights from the biggest personalities in the golf world, this great new

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00:10:11

Tracy Campbell- The Year of Peril, America in 1942

Speaking of Writers ·

2020/06/26

The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post–Pearl

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