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James A. Owen: Here, There be Dragons
978-1416912279 – Hardcover – Simon & Schuster – $17.95 (a paperback edition is also available – but the price difference is small enough for me to recommend you buy the hardcover) James A. Owen is...
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Karl Marlantes: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
978-0802119285 – Hardcover – Grove/Atlantic – $24.95 (e-book edition available). When I started reading books and interviewing authors for Writerscast, I made a commitment to only interviewing writers...
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Michael Burke: Swan Dive
978-1929355501 – Pleasure Boat Studio/Caravel Books – paperback – $15.00 (also available as an e-book at $9.99) This is Michael Burke’s first novel, and it’s a good one. He is probably much better...
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Ilyon Woo: The Great Divorce
978-0802119469 – Hardcover – Atlantic Monthly Press (ebook versions available $9.99) Ilyon Woo’s The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers...
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Publishing Talks: David Wilk Interviews Frank Rose
In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of...
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Slowing Down for the Summer
I have been posting two podcasts a week for the better part of the last year, which has been great fun. But with the summer in full swing, weather wonderful and plenty of work in the hopper, it looks...
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Katharine Weber: The Memory of All That
978-0307395887 – Crown – Hardcover – $24.00 – ebook editions also available Katharine Weber is best known as a novelist – I interviewed her last year about her wonderful novel True Confections and she...
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Sean Davis: The Wax Bullet War – Chronicles of a Soldier & Artist
The Wax Bullet War: Chronicles of a Soldier & Artist – 978-1932010701 – paperback – Ooligan Press – $16.95 (ebook version available at lower prices) Sean Davis grew up in Oregon, joined the Army...
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Jessica Anya Blau: The Wonder Bread Summer, a novel
The Wonder Bread Summer: A Novel – 978-0062199553 – Harper Perennial – paperback – $14.99 (lower cost ebook versions available) Discovering writers that are new to us and that we end up liking in a big...
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David Wilk talks with Sherisse Hawkins from Beneath the Ink
Publishing Talks began as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology about the future of publishing, books, and culture. As we continue to...
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David Wilk talks with Justo Hidalgo of 24symbols
Publishing Talks began as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology about the future of publishing, books, and culture. As we continue to...
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Kevin Jack McEnroe: Our Town
978-1-61902-528-8-1 – Hardcover – $25.00 – Counterpoint – 229 pages ebook versions available at lower prices I happened across this young, tattooed writer sitting in a publisher’s exhibit space at Book...
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Courtney White: Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet: 50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combatting Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change – 9781603586177 – Chelsea Green Publishing – 240 pages – paperback...
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Joy Harjo: Crazy Brave – A Memoir
978-0-393-34543-8 – W.W. Norton – paperback – 176 pages – $14.95 (eBook versions available at lower prices) Joy Harjo has been one of my poet heroes for a really long time. I have been reading her...
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David Wilk Interviews Richard Grossinger of North Atlantic Books
Publishing Talks began as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology about the future of publishing, books, and culture. As we continue to...
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George Gmelch: Playing With Tigers, A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties
9780803276819 – University of Nebraska Press – 288 pages – Hardcover – $26.95 (ebook versions available at roughly similar prices) Today, George Gmelch is a successful anthropologist, with a number of...
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Clara Bingham: Witness to the Revolution
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul 9780812993189 – Random House – Hardcover – $30 – (ebook versions available at lower...
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Clara Bingham reading from Witness to the Revolution
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul 9780812993189 – Random House – Hardcover – $30 I interviewed Clara Bingham about her...
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David Wilk interviews Peter Costanzo of Associated Press
Publishing Talks began as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology about the future of publishing, books, and culture. As we continue to...
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Tilar J. Mazzeo: Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage
Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage – 9781476778501 – Gallery Books – Hardcover – $26 – ebook versions available at lower prices. Author Tilar Mazzeo is a terrific storyteller, who took on the...
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