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| Podcast title | WritersCast
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| Description | WritersCast is the voice of writers. Host David Wilk interviews authors of new and forthcoming fiction, poetry and non-fiction books, talking with them about their work as writers, the stories they tell, the subjects they write about and the books they write. Writers reveal the thoughts and ideas behind their writing, and talk about a wide variety of topics of interest to their readers. | |
| Updated | Wed, 23 May 2012 05:37:52 +0000 | |
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1. Jessica Maria Tuccelli: Glow (a novel) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 36.87Mb) Description: 978-0670023318 – Viking – Hardcover – $25.95 (ebook versions available) Jessica Maria Tuccelli’s outstanding first novel, Glow, opens in the fall of 1941, in Washington, D.C., and traverses back and forth through time and place to Hopewell County, Georgia in 1836, and then across the century following. We start with Amelia J. McGee, a young [...] |
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2. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Liate Stehlik http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 36.73Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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3. Shama Hyder Kabani: The Zen of Social Media Marketing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 42.85Mb) Description: 978-1936661633 – Ben Bella Books – $16.95 – paperback (ebook versions are available) If you’re involved in any business or any form of communication arts or entertainment, you already know that social media has rapidly become the buzz term of the new century. Increasing numbers of people all over the world spend hours a day [...] |
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4. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Dan Blank http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 41.81Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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5. Scott Crow: Black Flags and Windmills http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 29.75Mb) Description: 978-1604860771 – PM Press – paperback – $20.00. I knew I would be interested in reading Black Flags and Windmills after reading the publisher’s description of this book: When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans in the Fall of 2005, scott crow headed into the political storm, co-founding a relief effort called the [...] |
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6. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Andrea Fleck-Nisbet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 42.52Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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7. Alex Gilvarry: From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 32.91Mb) Description: 978-0670023196 – Viking – Hardcover – $26.95 (ebook and audio book versions available) Brilliantly composed as a satire on a broad swatch of contemporary American life, Alex Gilvarry’s From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant will sneak up on you and whack you straight across the face. Even if you see it coming. I loved [...] |
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8. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Brian O’Leary about The Opportunity in Abundance http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 39.85Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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9. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Lou Aronica of Fiction Studio Books http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 44.81Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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10. Margot Peters: Lorine Niedecker, A Poet’s Life http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 34.01Mb) Description: 978-0299285005 – University of Wisconsin Press – Hardcover – $34.95 I have loved the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, and been deeply influenced by her work and life since being introduced to her writing by the great poet and independent literary publisher, Jonathan Williams, just a few years after her untimely death in 1970. His [...] |
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11. Publishing Talks: David Wilk Interviews Carl Lennertz about World Book Night 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 37.11Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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12. Georgia Lowe: The Bonus (a novel) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 34.86Mb) Description: 978-0615371450 – Lucky Dime Press – $18.95 – paperback (ebook editions available) I confess to be particularly fond of Depression era novels and nonfiction. The 1920s and 1930s were incredible periods in American history, so much like the present time it is sometimes strange and even eery. I’m not sure how many readers coming to [...] |
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13. Publishing Talks: David Wilk Interviews John Sundman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 45.92Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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14. Christina Thompson: Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 45.48Mb) Description: 978-1596911277 – Bloomsbury USA – $15.00 – paperback (ebook editions available) Christina Thompson’s Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All – A New Zealand Story gets one’s immediate attention for its outstanding title, of course. How could one resist? This tightly woven memoir was recommended to me by a writer friend [...] |
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15. David Gessner: My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 42.08Mb) Description: 978-1-571313-24-9 – Milkweed Editions – paperback – $15 (ebook editions available) David Gessner is a sort of post-modernist environmentalist. He’s written a number of books that celebrate the natural world and the wild, and he is a terrific writer capable of transcendent prose and has the keen observer’s eye that anyone writing about nature must [...] |
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16. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Miral Sattar about BiblioCrunch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 41.64Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I talk to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. How will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the [...] |
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17. Lisa Tucker: The Winters in Bloom http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 38.38Mb) Description: 978-1416575405 – Atria – Hardcover – $24.00 (ebook editions available) From the author’s website describing The Winters in Bloom: Together for over a decade, Kyra and David Winter are happier than they ever thought they could be. They have a comfortable home, stable careers, and a young son, Michael, whom they adore. Yet because of [...] |
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18. Amor Towles: Rules of Civility http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 37.79Mb) Description: 978-0670022694 – Viking – Hardcover – $26.95 (ebook and audiobook versions also available) Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility has become my favorite books. This WritersCast interview series has allowed me to read some incredibly good books this year; Amor Towles’ story of New York City in 1938 has risen to the top of my list [...] |
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19. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Mark Teppo about The Mongoliad http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 46.58Mb) Description: In this ongoing series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by [...] |
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20. Karl Marlantes: What It Is Like to Go to War http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 41.77Mb) Description: 978-0802119926 – Atlantic Monthly Press – Hardcover – $25.00 (e-book and audiobook editions available) I read Karl Marlantes’ novel, the extraordinary Matterhorn last year (and interviewed him about it for Writerscast – you can listen to that interview here). I don’t think I am alone in believing that Matterhorn is perhaps the finest and most [...] |
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21. M.J. Rose: The Hypnotist http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 36.78Mb) Description: 978-0778329206 – Mira Books – paperback – $14.95 (e-book and audio book editions available) M.J. Rose is a critically acclaimed novelist – she’s best known for her thrillers, of which The Hypnotist is one. It’s in a series with The Reincarnationist and The Memorist, all them with reincarnation as a central theme. MJ’s characters are [...] |
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22. Dean Bakopoulos: My American Unhappiness http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 39.64Mb) Description: 978-0151013449 – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Hardcover – $24.00 – ebook editions available Dean Bakopoulos is a very funny and perceptive writer. My American Unhappiness, his second novel, takes place in Madison, Wisconsin during the period of the second Bush administration. Both the geographical and political backdrops are crucial elements of the story, whose main [...] |
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23. Hurricane Irene delays Writerscast posting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Just like millions of other Americans we were hammered pretty hard by this hurricane, in our small Connecticut town 99% of homes lost power, and as of today, September 2, still more than 55% of homes are without power. We got ours back last night, thankfully, but still do not have internet. Without a good [...] |
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24. Katharine Weber: The Memory of All That http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 43.65Mb) Description: 978-0307395887 – Crown – Hardcover – $24.00 – ebook editions also available Katharine Weber is best known as a novelist – I interviewed her last year about her wonderful novel True Confections and she has written many more fine books. The Memory of All That, subtitled “George Gershwin, Kay Swift and My Family’s Legacy of [...] |
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25. Publishing Talks: David Wilk Interviews Peter Costanzo http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 41.49Mb) Description: In this ongoing series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by [...] |
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26. Scott Gummer: Parents Behaving Badly http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 35.44Mb) Description: 978-1451609172 – Simon & Schuster Touchstone – hardcover – $23.00 (ebook versions available) Scott Gummer’s Parents Behaving Badly appealed to me right away – a novel about Little League, what more fun could you want? Baseball is one of my greatest passions and having been a Little League parent and coach, I was looking forward [...] |
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27. Nick Mamatas: Sensation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 35.79Mb) Description: 978-1604863543 – PM Press – paperback – $14.95 (e-book editions available) “When Julia Hernandez leaves her husband, shoots a real estate developer, and then vanishes without a trace, she slips out of the world she knew and into the Simulacrum—a place where human history is both guided and thwarted by the conflict between a species [...] |
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28. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Kate Wilson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 40.59Mb) Description: In this ongoing series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by [...] |
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29. Anna Lappe: Diet for a Hot Planet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 44.80Mb) Description: 978-1-60819-465-0 – Bloomsbury – Paperback – $15.00 (ebook editions available) Anna Lappe´ is the daughter of the well-known activist and writer Frances Moore Lappe´, author of the classic Diet for a Small Planet, a book that introduced Americans to the idea of thinking about food and its role in ecology and the world economy, and [...] |
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30. Slowing Down for the Summer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I have been posting two podcasts a week for the better part of the last year, which has been great fun. But with the summer in full swing, weather wonderful and plenty of work in the hopper, it looks like I may be posting slightly less frequently for the next couple of months. I’m not [...] |
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31. Caroline Leavitt: Pictures of You http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 35.08Mb) Description: 978-1565126312 – Algonquin Books – $13.95 – paperback original (ebook versions also available) I’ve become a big fan of Caroline Leavitt’s work – I read Girls in Trouble last year and interviewed this very entertaining and engaging author about that book for WritersCast in 2010 (listen to that interview here). Pictures of You starts with [...] |
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32. Publishing Talks: David Wilk Interviews Frank Rose http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 47.90Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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33. Nina Sankovitch: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 29.18Mb) Description: 978-0061999840 – Harper – $23.99 – Hardcover (ebook version also available) This is truly a wonderful book by an exceptional writer. Nina Sankovitch was living a full, active life as an environmental lawyer, happily married with four children, when her beloved sister became ill with cancer and died far too young. As she recounts in [...] |
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34. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Cevin Bryerman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 38.72Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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35. Susie Bright: Big Sex Little Death (A Memoir) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 31.33Mb) Description: 978-1580052641 – Seal Press – $24.95 – Hardcover (ebook and unabridged audio book available) Reading Big Sex Little Death was a big surprise for me. I’ve known Susie Bright for a long time and have worked with her at various times over the years. I’ve long admired her work as a sex-positive revolutionist and a [...] |
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36. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Maxine Bleiweis http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 52.08Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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37. Peter Mountford: A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 41.33Mb) Description: 978-0-547-47335-2 – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – paperback – $15.95 (ebook versions available) I read about this book a few months ago and knew from the title alone that I wanted to read this novel. How many political novels are there (readable ones anyway)? Well, it turns out that Peter Mountford is a terrific writer, and [...] |
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38. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Hugh McGuire http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 41.57Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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39. Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 47.59Mb) Description: 978-1439170847 – Free Press – Paperback – $14.00 (ebook versions also available) Brando Skyhorse’s spectacular debut is a novel created from a series of interlocking stories, all of which take place in the mostly Mexican Echo Park neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like the rest of Southern California, Echo Park is in a constant state [...] |
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40. Summer Brenner: My Life in Clothes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 40.64Mb) Description: 978-1597091633 – Paperback – Red Hen Press – $18.95 (ebook versions also available) Summer Brenner is an economical and elegant writer whose fiction I have become very attached to (I read her noir novel, I-5, which I think is a terrific book, and interviewed her for Writerscast in December, 2009. Her latest book, published by [...] |
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41. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Matt Bell http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 44.49Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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42. Bradford Morrow: The Diviner’s Tale http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 39.65Mb) Description: 978-0547382630 – Hardcover – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – $26.00 (ebook version also available) I have read a number of truly fine books over the past couple of years, most of which I have talked about on Writerscast. It’s important to me that I’ve only been writing and talking about books I really liked. A few [...] |
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43. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Charles Alexander http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 39.31Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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44. Steve Lehto: Chrysler’s Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit’s Coolest Creation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 30.60Mb) Description: 978-1569765494 – Hardcover – Chicago Review Press – $24.95 (e-book edition available) Steve Lehto’s portrait of the Chrysler Corporation’s amazing effort to engineer a turbine powered automobile is a terrific book, and alot of fun to read. You don’t have to love cars to enjoy this book, though I am sure it helps. But even [...] |
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45. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Michael Jacobs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 40.71Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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46. Harry Hamlin: Full Frontal Nudity http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 39.17Mb) Description: 978-1439169995 - Hardcover – Scribner – $24.00 (e-book edition available) Harry Hamlin’s autobiographical memoir is not what you might expect if you are looking for a traditional “famous actor” tells-all but really tells-very-little story. Full Frontal Nudity is a completely honest, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, sometimes mind-boggling story about Hamlin’s growing up in suburban California [...] |
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47. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Phil Ollila http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 45.03Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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48. Lou Aronica: Blue http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 30.74Mb) Description: 978-1936558001 – paperback – The Fiction Studio - $16.95 (e-book versions available $7.99) Lou Aronica’s Blue is an unusual novel, combining elements of science fiction, fantasy, romance and serious fiction, to create a moving story that focuses on the relationship between a daughter and her father in a terrifically moving and affecting way. Lou is [...] |
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49. Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Mike Shatzkin http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 40.57Mb) Description: In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, [...] |
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50. Brom: The Child Thief http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 38.22Mb) Description: 978-0061671340 – paperback – Harper Voyager – $19.99 (ebook editions available at $9.99) The Child Thief by well known illustrator and writer Brom is an absolutely stunning book. It is the Peter Pan story retold in a brilliantly imagined fashion that is completely captivating. So, yes, I did love reading this book. It is immersive, [...] |
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