Episodes
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Lindsay M. Chervinsky - The Cabinet
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
We welcome Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky to the program today for the first of a two-part interview. Dr. Chervinsky is a presidential historian, as well as a columnist at Governing and Washington Monthly. She is the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution which is now available in paperback from Belknap Press an imprint of Harvard University Press.
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Hasanthika Sirisena - Dark Tourist
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
In this episode, Dave Mason of Rhodes College and WYPL interviews Hasanthika Sirisena, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Susquehanna University. She has published a collection of stories, The Other One. She and Dave discuss her collection of essays, Dark Tourist. which was recently published by Mad Creek/Ohio State University Press.
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Brad Taylor - End of Days
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Brad Taylor is a retired Army Lt. Colonel who served in what is popularly known as Delta Force. After his service he became a thriller author, creating the Pike Logan series. We’ll be talking about his brand new one, End of Days, where a member of an international religious charity has gone rogue and is trying to bring about Armageddon.
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Daniel de Visé - Part Two - King of the Blues
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
We welcome Daniel de Visé to the program today, in this second part of two episodes. Daniel de Visé is a journalist, writer and graduate of Wesleyan and Northwestern universities. He has worked at The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and a multitude of other newspapers in a career spanning 23 years. In 2001, he was the co-recipient of a team Pulitzer Prize, and has acquired over two dozen other national, as well as regional awards in journalism. He is the author of The King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King, which is published by Grove Press.
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Daniel de Visé - Part One - King of the Blues
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
We welcome Daniel de Visé to the program today, in this first part of two episodes. Daniel de Visé is a journalist, writer and graduate of Wesleyan and Northwestern universities. He has worked at The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and a multitude of other newspapers in a career spanning 23 years. In 2001, he was the co-recipient of a team Pulitzer Prize, and has acquired over two dozen other national, as well as regional awards in journalism. He is the author of The King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King, which is published by Grove Press.
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Robert K. Elder - Christmas with Elvis
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Robert K. Elder is a veteran photographer, journalist, author and podcaster. Today we’ll be talking about his latest book, Christmas with Elvis: The Official Guide to the Holidays from the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which is published by Running Press.
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Anne Byrn - A New Take on Cake
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Linda Lloyd talks to Anne Byrn, known as The Cake Mix Doctor, about her latest cookbook, A New Take on Cake, in which she shows how to begin with a packaged cake mix and create new variations that seem to be from scratch. She revisits old recipes and updates them for the new cake mix sizes, and introduces readers to fresh new flavors, as well as recipes for cake lovers with restricted diets.
Saturday Nov 13, 2021
Rip Rawlings - Part Two - The Kill Box
Saturday Nov 13, 2021
Saturday Nov 13, 2021
We welcome H. Ripley Rawlings IV back to the program today. Rip is a retired Marine Corps Lt. Colonel. His first book was the New York Times best-seller co-authored with Mark Greaney, Red Metal. Last year was his solo debut, the first in the Tyce Asher series, Assault by Fire. Today we have the second of a two-part interview about his latest, The Kill Box, which is published by Pinnacle Fiction.
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
Rip Rawlings - Pat One - The Kill Box
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
We welcome H. Ripley Rawlings IV back to the program today. Rip is a retired Marine Corps Lt. Colonel. His first book was the New York Times best-seller co-authored with Mark Greaney, Red Metal. Last year was his solo debut, the first in the Tyce Asher series, Assault by Fire. Today we’ll have the first of a two-part interview about his latest, The Kill Box, which is published by Pinnacle Fiction.
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Margaret Renkl - Graceland, At Last
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Susan Orlean - On Animals
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Susan Orlean is one of the most respected writers of writers in America. In addition to her almost thirty-year position as staff writer with the New Yorker, she has published many best-selling books, including The Orchid Thief, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, and The Library Book. Today we’ll be talking about her latest, On Animals, which is published by Avid Reader Press.
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Christina Lane - Pantom Lady part two
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
I’m happy to welcome Dr. Christina Lane back to the program today for the second of a two-part interview. Dr. Lane is a professor of film studies and the chair of The Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami. Her most recent work, which we’ll finish talking about today, is Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock which is now in paperback from Chicago Review Press.
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Christina Lane - Phantom Lady part one
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
I’m happy to welcome Dr. Christina Lane to the program today for the first of a two-part interview. Dr. Lane is a professor of film studies and the chair of The Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami. Her most recent work, which we’ll be talking about today, is Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock which is now in paperback from Chicago Review Press.
Saturday Jul 24, 2021
Chaney Kwak - The Passenger
Saturday Jul 24, 2021
Saturday Jul 24, 2021
Dr. Dave Mason is back today as guest host. Dave will be talking to journalist Chaney Kwak about his debut book, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship which is published by David R. Godine.
Saturday Jul 03, 2021
Jeff Shesol - Mercury Rising part 2
Saturday Jul 03, 2021
Saturday Jul 03, 2021
Jeff Shesol is back today for the second of a two-part interview. Jeff worked as a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, as a communications strategist, and even as a cartoonist. His previous books include Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court and Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade. Today we’ll be talking about his latest book, Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War which is published by W.W. Norton.
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
Jeff Shesol - Mercury Rising part 1
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
Jeff Shesol is here today for the first of a two-part interview. Jeff worked as a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, as a communications strategist, and even as a cartoonist. His previous books include Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court and Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade. Today we’ll be talking about his latest book, Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War which is published by W.W. Norton.
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Olivia Campbell - Women in White Coats
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Olivia Campbell is a respected journalist having written for outlets such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, among others. Today we’ll be talking about her debut book, Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine, which looks at three women who blazed the trail for others to attend medical schools and earn MD degrees in 19th century America and Britain. I’d also like to add a note that internet weather didn’t do our connection any favors, so the audio is a bit dicey at times, but it is a very interesting conversation which I hope that you’ll stick around for.
Saturday May 08, 2021
Vanessa Sasson - Yasodhara and the Buddha
Saturday May 08, 2021
Saturday May 08, 2021
We're pleased to welcome a new guest host, David Mason, to the program today. Dave is an associate professor at Rhodes College. He is also the editor of Ecumenica : Journal of Theatre and Performance. He’s the author of the books The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre (Routledge, 2019) Brigham Young: Sovereign in America (New York: Routledge, 2014) Theatre and Religion on Krishna’s Stage (New York: Palgrave, 2009)
Dave will be speaking with Vanessa R. Sasson, a professor of religious studies at Marionopolis College in Quebec. She has a good deal of academic writing and editing under her belt, including the collection, Little Buddhas: Children and Childhood in Buddhist Texts and Traditions and the forthcoming, Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary. But today, she and Dave will be discussing her debut novel, Yasodhara and the Buddha, which was recent published in the United States by Bloomsbury Academic.
Saturday May 01, 2021
John Archibald - Shaking the Gates of hell
Saturday May 01, 2021
Saturday May 01, 2021
John Archibald is a long-time reporter and columnist for The Birmingham News. In 2018, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Today we’ll be discussing his first book, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, which is published by Knopf.
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Julia Cooke - Come Fly the World
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Julia Cooke is a writer whose journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Salon and many others. Her first book was The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba, and today we’ll be discussing her latest, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am which is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.