Episodes

Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Chuck Thompson - The Status Revolution, Part Two
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Saturday Feb 18, 2023

Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Chuck Thompson - The Status Revolution, Part One
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023

Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Andy Davidson - The Hollow Kind
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Andy Davidson is an author of literary horror who has garnered much acclaim for his three published novels. The first was In the Valley of the Sun. He visited the WYPL studios in early 2020 to talk about The Boatman's Daughter. Today, he speaks to us from his home in Georgia about his most recent release, The Hollow Kind, which is published MCDxFSG Originals.

Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Stacy Schiff - The Revoluntionary (Part Two)
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer-winning biographer, having won for Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), among her other works are The Witches: Salem, 1692, Cleopatra: A Life, and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Today we have the second of a two-part interview about her most recent biography, in which she returns to the American Revolution, with The Revolutionary, about the life and times of Samuel Adams, which is published by Little, Brown, and Co.

Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Stacy Schiff - The Revolutionary (Part One)
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer-winning biographer, having won for Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), among her other works are The Witches: Salem, 1692, Cleopatra: A Life, and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Today we have the first of a two-part interview about her most recent biography, in which she returns to the American Revolution, with The Revolutionary, about the life and times of Samuel Adams, which is published by Little, Brown, and Co.

Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Teresa Lim - The Interpreter’s Daughter
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Teresa Lim is a journalist originally from Singapore, now living in England. She has recently published in America her debut book, a multigenerational memoir of her family’s journey from Southern China in the late 19th century up to the Japanese invasion of Singapore during World War II, entitled: The Interpreter’s Daughter, and it is available in America from Pegasus.

Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Aram Goudsouzian - Man on a Mission : James Meredith and the Battle of OLE Miss
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Aram Goudsouzian is a professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Memphis. He’s appeared on Book Talk before to discuss his books, King of the Court about NBA legend Bill Russell, Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear, and The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America. Today we’ll be talking about his latest project, Man on a Mission:James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss, an illustrated graphic history of James Meredith’s attempts to attend The University of Mississippi in the early 1960s during Jim Crow. The illustrator for the book is Bill Murray, and the editor is Vijay Shah, and it is published by The University of Arkansas Press.

Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Jake S. Friedman - Part Two - The Disney Revolt
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Jake S. Friedman is a former animator and current educator, as well as a researcher and writer about the history of animation. His first book was The Art of Blue Sky Studios, and today in the second of a two-part interview, we'll discuss his new book, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age, which is published by Chicago Review Press.

Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Jake S. Friedman - Part One - The Disney Revolt
Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Jake S. Friedman is a former animator and current educator, as well as a researcher and writer about the history of animation. His first book was The Art of Blue Sky Studios, and today in the first of a two-part interview, we'll discuss his new book, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age, which is published by Chicago Review Press.

Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Grant McCracken - Return of the Artisan
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Grant McCracken is an anthropologist and author who researches culture and commerce. His previous books include: Culture and Consumption, Plenitude, and Chief Culture Officer. Today we’ll be discussing his most recent title, Return of the Artisan: How America Went from Industrial to Handmade, which is published by Simon Element, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.

Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Andrew Lownie - Part Two - Traitor King
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Andrew Lownie is the founder of the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, one of the premier literary agencies in Great Britain. In addition to his status as a fellow of the British Historical Society, Andrew has written several non-fiction books, including, The Mountbattens: The Lives and Loves of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten and Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring. Today we have the second of a two-part interview discussing his most recent release, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, which is published in America by Pegasus Books.

Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Andrew Lownie - Part One - Traitor King
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Andrew Lownie is the founder of the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, one of the premier literary agencies in Great Britain. In addition to his status as a fellow of the British Historical Society, Andrew has written several non-fiction books, including, The Mountbattens: The Lives and Loves of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten and Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring. Today we have the first of a two-part interview discussing his most recent release, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, which is published in America by Pegasus Books.

Saturday Jul 09, 2022
Steve Berry - The Omega Factor
Saturday Jul 09, 2022
Saturday Jul 09, 2022
Steve Berry has over 25 million books in print in 40 languages. His first three novels were stand-alone thrillers, The Amber Room, The Romanov Prophecy, and Third Secret. In 2006, he began his tremendously successful Cotton Malone Series with The Templar Legacy, with book number 16, The Kasier’s Web having been published in 2021. He even spun off the popular character Cassiopeia Vitt into several stories co-written with MJ Rose. And there have been short stories and contributions to anthologies over the years. The seventeenth Cotton Malone book is scheduled for February of 2023, but today we’ll be discussing his first stand-alone novel since 2012, The Omega Factor which is published by Grand Central.

Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Mary Laura Philpott - Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and other Explosives
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Mary Laura Philpott has appeared on Book Talk for both of her previous books, first in 2015 with her collection of cartoons, Penguins with People Problems. In 2019, we spoke about her collection of personal essays, I Miss You When I Blink. Today we’ll discuss he most recent release, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives which is published by Atria Books.

Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Lucy Ward - The Empress and the English Doctor, Part 2
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
We are happy to welcome Lucy Ward back to the program for the second part of our interview. Lucy is a writer and former journalist having written for The Guardian and The Independent. Today, we continue our conversation about her debut book, The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus, which is published Oneworld Publications and distributed by Simon and Schuster.

Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Lucy Ward - The Empress and the English Doctor, Part 1
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
We are delighted to welcome Lucy Ward to the program for the first of a two-part interview. Lucy is a writer and former journalist having written for The Guardian and The Independent. Today we will begin our conversation about her debut book, The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus, which is published Oneworld Publications and distributed by Simon and Schuster.

Saturday May 14, 2022
Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Take My Hand
Saturday May 14, 2022
Saturday May 14, 2022
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, as well as an associate professor of English at American University in Washington, D.C. However, for Book Talk listeners, she is a highly respected writer of fiction. Her debut novel was Wench, followed by Balm, and today we’ll be talking about her newest book, Take My Hand, which is published by Berkley.

Saturday May 07, 2022
William Hazelgrove - Greed in the Gilded Age
Saturday May 07, 2022
Saturday May 07, 2022
William Hazelgrove has written over twenty books including, Madam President: the Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson and Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair. Today we’ll be talking about his most recent title, Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick which is published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022

Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Jared Goldstein - Real Americans - Part 2
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Saturday Apr 02, 2022