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WordSmitten®
"About the Books" ™
An
entertaining and informative weekly radio show
featuring the brightest literary minds in publishing.
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Listen
to host Kate Sullivan asking "those questions" and enjoy the
quick banter and snappy patter of great authors, editors, booksellers,
and publishing executives.
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Author
Biographer
Historian
Laurence
Bergreen
(credit photo:
Sigrid Estrada)
Author
Connie
May Fowler
Author
Joseph
Skibell
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Upcoming
Radio Broadcast Interviews
Tune
in to the fun. Listen to the live and archived radio broadcasts
and podcasts for great writing tips. Outstanding authors talk
candidly about the writing life.
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on these shows to hear lively and informative interviews.
Each
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We'll surprise you with the guest's name after the introduction.
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Authors
~Nicole
Galland
Crossed
~Natalie
Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones:
Freeing the Writer Within
~Sana Krasikov
One More Year
~Fiona
Maazel
Last
Last Chance
~Jeff
Pearlman
Boys
Will Be Boys
~William Winokur
The Perfect Game
~Peter Manseau
Vows
~ Thisbe Nissen
Osprey Island and
The Good People of New York
~Diane
Leslie
Fleur De Leigh in Exile
~Nancy
Horan
Loving Frank
~Joseph
Skibell
A Blessing on the Moon
~Michael
C. White
Soul Catcher
~Shelley
Singer (aka
Lee Singer)
Blackjack
~Elizabeth
Gaffney
Metropolis - a novel
~David
Leavitt
The Indian Clerk
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Special Guests
~Tampa
Mayor Pam Iorio
Mayor's Book Talk
~Editor-in-Chief
Sara Nelson
Publishers Weekly
~Book
Publicist Scott Manning
Representing Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down)
and P.J. O'Rourke (CEO of the Sofa)
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Recent
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Author
Jeff
Pearlman
and his Little Pumpkin
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Jeff
Pearlman,author and sportswriter,
is a columnist with ESPN2 and a former contributor to Sports
Illustrated. He is the author many non-fiction books including
"Boys Will Be Boys" and "Love Me Hate Me."
Jeff lives and works in New York and relies on his wife and two
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Book
Editor
Margo
Hammond
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Margo
Hammond, founder of the Festival
of Books, co-author and commentator with Book Babes.com
blog, and former book editor of the St. Petersburg Times. |
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Author
and
Poet
Peter
Meinke
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Peter
Meinke, author and poet.
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
His
new book, The Contracted World, an award-winning new
edition that was released this year, is one of his best. Check
back for the WordSmitten podcast of this radio
broadcast. |
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Editor
Tom
Valeo
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::Tom
Valeo, editor, writer, and founder of
The Existential Memoirist. ::
A freelance health and science writer, Tom writes a column on
aging for the St. Petersburg Times and contributes regularly
to WebMD. He was a theater critic in Chicago for 15 years and
a founding editor of two Chicago-based magazines devoted to arts
and culture. Visit www.existentialmemoir.com
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