WYPL Book Talk

Terri Murphy talks to Todd Bottorff about his self-help guide 21 Things to Create a Better Life. Dowload the podcast today!

Stephen Usery interviews Philipp Meyer about his debut novel, American Rust, which is a tale of friendship amidst crime and punishment in a dying steel town in the hills of western Pennsylvania.

Linda Lloyd talks to Miss Julia creator Ann B. Ross about the tenth installment of the series Miss Julia Delivers the Goods.

 

Stephen Usery interviews New York Times reporter Warren St. John about his book Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town about a small town on the edge of Atlanta and a woman trying to reach out to refugee teenage boys through soccer. Download the podcast today.

 

Stephen Usery interviews Georgia native and NPR commentator Lauretta Hannon about her debut book The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life.

 

Susan Gray talks to former models and magazine editors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant about their most recent novel What Doesn't Kill You. Download the podcast today!

 

Stephen Usery interviews Carol Higgins Clark about her novel Cursed, the twelfth installment in her popular Reagan Reilly mystery series. Check back in a few weeks, and we will have a video version of the interview available for viewing!

 

 

Stephen Usery talks to Kevin Wilson about his debut collection of short stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.

Stephen Usery interviews the Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark about her newest number one NY Times Bestselling thriller, Just Take My Heart.

Carolyn Gibson talks to David Beckwith about his memoir A New Day in the Delta: Inventing School Desegregation as You Go.

Stephen Usery interviews Ace Atkins about his historical crime novel, The Devil's Garden, which looks at the Fatty Arbuckle scandal which in reality was investigated by Dashiell Hammett before he became a writer.

Linda Lloyd talks to Susan Rebecca White about her debut novel, Bound South which is set in the elite social circles of Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Stephen Usery interviews Joseph Boyden about his award-winning novel Through Black Spruce. Through Black Spruce won the 2008 Giller prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in his native Canada.

Stephen Usery interviews Dr. Tony Campolo about his most recent book, Red Letter Christians.

Stephen Usery interviews David Robertson about his new biography of one of the giants of American music, "W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues." It follows Handy from his childhood in Alabama, his life in traveling minstrel shows, his fame in Memphis, and his later years in New York City.

Stephen Usery interviews Anne Easter Smith about her new historical novel, The King's Grace. The King's Grace follows Grace Plantagenet, the illegitimate daughter of the late King Edward the Fourth of England as Henry the Seventh takes the throne and establishes the House of Tudor as the new monarchs of England.

Stephen Usery interviews Dr. Ronald C. White about his new book A. Lincoln. Just in time for the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, A. Lincoln is a comprehensive biography that pays particular attention to our 16th President's moral grounding and as his role as commander in chief during the Civil War.

 

In this podcast, Susan Gray talks to Dwight Fryer about The Knees of Gullah Island, the prequel to his local best-seller, The Legend of Quito Road.

 

Download this Book Talk podcast as Stephen Usery interviews Diana Joseph about her touching, and at times hilarious, new memoir about the men in her life, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way. All the cool kids are doing it, so come on, bend to the will of your peer group!

Stephen Usery interviews Memphian Emily Yellin about her new book Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us. It's a special one-hour program that looks at the history of telephone customer service and how it is done well and not so well today. Also, Emily will be at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on Thursday, April 2nd at 6 p.m. Be sure and tell her that you heard her on Book Talk!