WYPL Book Talk

Carolyn Gibson interviews Kathryn Stockett about her debut novel, The Help, which is set in tumultuous times of 1960s Jackson, Mississippi.

Download the podcast as Stephen Usery talks to T Jefferson Parker about his newest thriller, The Renegades, starring Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Charlie Hood.

In this podcast, Stephen Usery discusses Walking On: A Daughter's Journey with Legendary Sheriff Buford Pusser with Dwana Pusser.

Download the podcast where Stephen Usery talks to Jami Attenberg about her novel, The Kept Man, which is new in paperback.

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Stephen Usery interviews Inman Majors about his new novel The Millionaires which is set in the intriguing world of Tennessee politics and banking in the late Seventies and early Eighties.

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Stephen talks to Charles Bock about his novel, Beautiful Children, which is also new in paperback and was named as one of the NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2008. Plus, there are 23 extra minutes on the podcast. Enjoy!

Stephen interviews Michael Lee West about Mermaids in the Basement which is now available in paperback.

Stephen Usery interviews Jack Riggs about his second novel, The Fireman's Wife, the story a fireman named Peck and his wife Cassie as their marriage falls apart in the costal Low Country of South Carolina and the mountains of western North Carolina at the beginning of the 1970s. Download the podcast today!

Stephen Usery has an audience with the Sweet Potato Queen herownself, Jill Conner Browne about her newest book, American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving Your Assets

Dr. Carolyn Gibson interviews Theresa Huttlinger Vigour about her book, Mourning Sarah: A Case for Testing Group B Strep. Download the podcast today.

Stephen Usery talks to Adam Shepard about his book Scratch Beginnings which follows him fresh out of college making a new start with only $25 and a sleeping bag in Charleston, SC.

Stephen Usery talks to David Donaldson and Mark Grisham about their new novel, Bedlam South, which is partially set in an insane asylum outside of Richmond, VA during the closing days of the Civil War.

Stephen Usery interviews Chatanooga native Jon Meacham (editor of Newsweek magazine) about American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the Whitehouse. The podcast has eight extra minutes of interview goodness AND a Q&A with the audience that followed the taping. (51 minutes total)

Stephen Usery talks to Memphis Theological Seminary professor, G. Lee Ramsey, Jr. about his look at the ministry as it is portrayed in Southern fiction in Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves. Almost 10 minutes of extra conversation are available in the podcast. Enjoy!

 

Stephen Usery talks to music-writer extraordinaire Ted Gioia about his look at the music that made Mississippi famous in the book, Delta Blues, which was named to the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2008 list. Extra material in the podcast includes looks at the FBI's investigation of the Lomax family and Muddy Waters' sojourn to Chicago.

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Download our Book Talk podcast this week as Padma Viswanathan talks to Stephen Usery about her epic novel set in her ancestral homeland of the Tamil-speaking region of southern India. The Toss of a Lemon follows the life of a young Brahmin woman, Sivakami, who is widowed as a teenager, and is forced to live a life of seclusion as dictated by custom, while trying to keep her her family together.

Stephen Usery speaks with Tom Andes about the new Voice Of Witness oral history collection Underground America which features narratives from undocumented workers living on the margins of American society. Download the podcast today.

 

Terri Murphy talks to the best-selling painter in American history, Thomas Kinkade, about his new retrospective Twenty-Five Years of Light. Download the podcast today.

Our audio interview with the man GQ magazine calls the best mystery writer in the world, Michael Connelly is now available for download. He and Stephen talk about The Brass Verdict, the book that brings Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together on the same case. The podcast features an additional 12 minutes of conversation that kept going after the cameras stopped, including where to find the missing chapter 12 from The Brass Verdict.

Dowload Blytheville, Arkansas native George Hamilton's podcast interview with Stephen Usery about Hamilton's hilarious new memoir, Don't Mind If I Do. The podcast has a bonus story about Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle unavailable in the video interview!