Episodes

Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Jonathan Eig - King: A Life Pt. 2
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
I’m happy to welcome Jonathan Eig back to the program today for the second of our two-part conversation about his new, exhaustive biography of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ent, King: A Life which is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Jonathan is a best-selling and award-winning author of non-fiction. His titles are Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster, The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, and the multi-award-winning Ali: A Life, about boxer and activist Muhammad Ali.

Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Jonathan Eig - King: A Life Pt. 1
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Jonathan Eig is a best-selling and award-winning author of non-fiction. His titles are Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster, The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, and the multi-award-winning Ali: A Life, about boxer and activist Muhammad Ali. Today, we’ll begin the first of a two-part interview about his new exhaustive biography of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., King: A Life which is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Polly Stewart - The Good Ones
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Polly Stewart is an associate professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. Her essays have a appeared in The New York Times, Poets and Writers, among others. Today we will be speaking about her new novel, a thriller, entitled The Good Ones which is published by Harper.

Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Julie Carr - Mud, Blood, and Ghosts - Part 2
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
This week we have the second of a two-part interview as Dr. David Mason speaks with Dr. Julie Carr about her book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West published by the University of Nebraska Press. David is the director of the Asian Studies Department at Rhodes College. Julie is the director of the Women’s Studies Department and professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Julie Carr - Mud, Blood, and Ghosts - Part 1
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
This week we have the first of a two-part interview as returning guest host Dr. David Mason speaks with Dr. Julie Carr about her book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West published by the University of Nebraska Press. David is the director of the Asian Studies Department at Rhodes College. Julie is the director of the Women’s Studies Department and professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Saturday Jul 01, 2023
Paul Kix - You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Pt. 2
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
We're happy to welcome Blake McVey back as guest host of the program today. Blake is the public services director of the historic Cossitt Library in downtown Memphis. Today is the second of a two-part interview with journalist and author Paul Kix. Paul's journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. His first book is The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando, and today he and Blake will conclude their discussion of his latest title, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America which is published by Celadon Books.

Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Paul Kix - You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Pt. 1
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
We're happy to welcome Blake McVey back as guest host of the program today. Blake is the public services director of the historic Cossitt Library in downtown Memphis. Today is the first of a two-part interview with journalist and author Paul Kix. Paul's journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. His first book is The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando, and today he and Blake will begin discussing his latest title, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America which is published by Celadon Books.

Saturday Jun 03, 2023
Peter Cozzens - A Brutal Reckoning Pt. 2
Saturday Jun 03, 2023
Saturday Jun 03, 2023

Saturday May 27, 2023
Peter Cozzens - A Brutal Reckoning Pt. 1
Saturday May 27, 2023
Saturday May 27, 2023

Saturday May 20, 2023
Elizabeth Passarella - It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway
Saturday May 20, 2023
Saturday May 20, 2023
Memphis native Elizabeth Passarella is a writer and editor. Currently, she is a contributing editor for Southern Living, and previously worked as an editor at Vogue and Real Simple. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Parents, The Wall Street Journal, among many others. In 2021, she published her first collection of essays, Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York, and recently Thomas Nelson Books released her second collection, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward.

Saturday May 13, 2023
Michael Farris Smith - Salvage This World
Saturday May 13, 2023
Saturday May 13, 2023
Michael Farris Smith is a novelist who has previously appeared on Book Talk for his books, Rivers, Desperation Road, The Fighter, and Blackwood. His other titles are Nick and The Hands of Strangers. Today we’ll be discussing his latest, Salvage This World, which is published by Little, Brown.

Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Rebecca Boggs Roberts - Untold Power - part two
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023

Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Rebecca Boggs Roberts - Untold Power - part one
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Saturday Apr 22, 2023

Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Eli Cranor - Ozark Dogs
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Eli Cranor is a former pro football player and high school football coach. He’s now a writer with a column in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and has recently published his second novel set in the Arkansas River valley. The first one was Don’t Know Tough, and the new one, recently released by Soho Crime, is Ozark Dogs.

Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Oline Eaton - Finding Jackie
Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Saturday Apr 01, 2023

Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Adam Brookes - Fragile Cargo - Part Two
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Adam Brookes is back on the program for the second of a two-part interview. Adam is a true world traveler, having been born in Canada, grew up in Britain, and worked all over Asia. He is a journalist and novelist. He primarily served as BBC correspondent for Beijing, Jakarta, and Washington, DC. His novels are Night Heron, Spy Games, and The Spy’s Daughter. Today we’ll finish our discussion his new non-fiction title, Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasure of China’s Forbidden City, which is published by Atria.

Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Adam Brookes - Fragile Cargo - Part One
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Adam Brookes is on the program today for the first of a two-part interview. Adam is a true world traveler, having been born in Canada, grew up in Britain, and worked all over Asia. He is a journalist and novelist. He primarily served as BBC correspondent for Beijing, Jakarta, and Washington, DC. His novels are Night Heron, Spy Games, and The Spy’s Daughter. Today we’ll begin discussing his new non-fiction title, Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasure of China’s Forbidden City, which is published by Atria.

Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Mark Greaney - Burner
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
New York Times Best-Selling author Mark Greaney returns to the program to talk about the latest installment in his Gray Man series, Burner, which finds Court Gentry facing off against a Russian hit team as they both race to find a phone drive full of international, money-laundering secrets.

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