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If you"re like me, you like to know things but how much time to invest? That"s the question. Here"s the answer: Read Beat--Interviews with authors of new releases. These aren"t book reviews but short (about 25-30 minutes on the average) chats with folks that usually have taken a lot of time to research a topic, enough to write a book about it. Hopefully, there"s a topic or two that interests you. I try to come up with subjects that fascinate me or I need to know more about. Hopefully, listeners will

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"The Editors" by Stephen Harrison

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2024/07/24

Among the digital giants that we've probably come to take for granted is the all-knowing Wikipedia site.Stephen Harrison has taken notice. In fact, for the past five years, he's been following Wikipedia in a column called "Source Notes" in Slate magazine.Recent articles of his carry titles such as "Wikipedia is covering the war in Israel and Gaza better than X" and "Wikipedia will survive A.I."Harrison has carried his interest in Wikipedia over to The Editors, a suspense novel that the Washin...

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33:28

"A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of...

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2024/07/23

As one of the Four Horsemen of the Noir Apocalypse (the others being Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and Cornell Woolrich), Raymond Chandler has a unique place in our literary history.Chandler invented Philip Marlowe, after all. He wrote about the mean streets of Los Angeles years before Dragnet. His novels have been developed into quintessential noir movies such as The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely. The list of actors who’ve played Marlowe, the definitive private eye, includes Humphre...

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28:08

"The President is a Sick Man" by Matthew Algeo

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2024/07/16

Matthew Algeo got the idea for writing The President is a Sick Man after visiting Philadelphia's Mutter Museum where the tumor removed from the mouth of Grover Cleveland in 1893 is among the exhibits.Fascinated by such an oddity, Algeo found out that Cleveland was going into his second term as president when the operation took place--in secret. Cleveland was incapacitated for six weeks until a rubber implant allowed him to speak again. But the American people never knew that at the time. Alge...

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38:26

Discussion on the Golden Age of Radio by Eleanor...

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2024/07/12

Radio drama was declared dead in September 1962 after CBS axed its last two network shows, Suspense, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.Hold on, said Eleanor Patterson, media studies professor at Auburn University. Scripted radio programs may have stopped from being the dominant form of entertainment which they were through most of the 30s, 40s and 50s but radio drama has always been around, she said.Shows like ABC’s Theater5 (1964), CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974-82), and Sears Radio Theater (1...

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34:02

"Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion" by Robert...

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2024/07/04

Bicycle racing was a legitimate spectator sport in the 1890s. Big crowds gathered in cities across America and Europe to watch men and women compete in a sport that exploded over the last decade of the 19th century.Perhaps the biggest star of that period was Major Taylor, an African American cyclist who first achieved success as a teenager in 1894, noted Robert Turpin, a history professor at Lees-McRae College in North Carolina and the author of Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion.A bicycl...

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38:03

"Hammett in Hollywood" by Mark Dawidziak

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2024/07/04

In the world of film noir, the leading lights are usually listed as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Cornell Woolrich.Hammett proved to be an inspiration for Mark Dawidziak, a writer whose published works include biographies of Mark Twain (the white-suited author who Dawidziak has impersonated for more than 30 years), Edgar Allan Poe (see previous podcast on The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe) and Teddy Roosevelt along with books on Twilight Zone, Columbo and Kolchak the ...

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22:06

"Sentinel" by Mark Greaney

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2024/06/27

He belongs in the upper echelons of special-ops thriller authors. That’s one of the comments on the back of the book jacket of Mark Greaney’s new book, Sentinel (Berkley).You haven’t experienced a special-ops thriller? It’s a whirlwind tour of international intrigue, high-powered weapons, death, deception, and destruction as grizzled soldiers of fortune collide on unmarked battlefields.Greaney is an old hand, having knocked off a dozen Gray Man books with a new one to be released next Februar...

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28:30

"Native Nations" by Kathleen DuVal

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2024/06/20

Kathleen DuVal’s Native Nations leaves you shaking your head.A history professor at the University of North Carolina, DuVal provides a view of this country’s colonial history we never got in school.This history comes from those already present when the French, British, and Spanish landed on North American shores. Her detailed account (the footnotes alone are an informational storehouse) raises the curtain on the American stage, letting us see—perhaps for the first time—the power and diversity...

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35:58

"Bootlegging the Airwaves" by Eleanor Patterson

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2024/06/10

While growing up in Los Angeles and while attending school in Madison, Wisc., Eleanor Patterson was fascinated by old radio: shows like Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and the Jack Benny Show.Curious about the source of programming that long since left the air, she asked the host of the Madison public radio program how he came by the old radio programs he shared on the air. People just gave them to him, he said. That led to the book, Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Te...

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"All That Really Matters" by Dr. David Weill

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2024/06/09

Dealing with someone who faces a life-or-death situation just once is enough for most of us. But what of someone involved in transplant surgery who goes through it time after time?How do you deal with having so much power and responsibility? Those are some of the factors that led Dr. David Weill to write his first novel, All That Really Matters.The former director of the Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical School, Weill, a former tr...

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37:32

"The Mind of a Bee" by Lars Chittka

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2024/05/24

So how does this little insect navigate between distant flower patches and the nest? That’s just one of the questions that bee researcher Lars Chittka seeks to answer.Chittka’s book, The Mind of a Bee (Princeton University Press) not only covers bee navigation but explores research by himself and others that demonstrate that bees have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers, solve problems, and learn through observation. In short, bees are smart.The “simple” act of navigation alone is n...

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32:14

"Westerns: A Women's History" by Victoria Lamont

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2024/05/23

Having been raised on TV westerns (my favorites were Cheyenne, Maverick, and the Rifleman), I never looked at rustlers as anything more than bad guys out to steal cattle.It took Victoria Lamont, an English professor at Waterloo College in Ontario, Canada, to open my eyes.Her book, Westerns: A Women’s History, spotlights accomplishments made by women who wrote about the Old West in an era when the Western frontier was recognized as officially closed (1880 to 1900). Yes, women wrote about cowbo...

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"D-Day Girls" by Sarah Rose

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2024/05/09

Sarah Rose's D-Day Girls not only lets you understand what life was like in occupied France for four long years during World War II but also lets us understand the contributions that women made to overthrow the Nazi menace.It's a true story, drawn from recently declassified files, diaries, and oral histories, that follows the challenges women faced as French saboteurs. Trained in England, the one European country left to counter Hitler's plans for conquest, the women learned how to shoot and ...

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"A Question of Value" by Robert Brunk

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2024/04/26

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"Mike Donlin" by Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz

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2024/04/26

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"Skies of Thunder" by Caroline Alexander

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2024/04/25

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"Code to Joy" by Michael Littman

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2024/04/09

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"The Octopus in the Parking Garage" by Rob Verchick

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2024/04/04

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"Indian Burial Ground" by Nick Medina

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2024/04/03

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"1898" Edited by Taina Caragol and Kate Clarke Lemay

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2024/03/13

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