WYPL Book Talk
Podcast version of WYPL-FM's syndicated radio program Book Talk, featuring in-person interviews with Southern and national writers. Most podcasts feature bonus material not available in the broadcast version.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 109
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Andrew Lownie - Part One - Traitor King
Andrew Lownie is the founder of the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, one of the premier literary agencies in Great Britain. In addition to his status as a fellow of the British Historical Society, And…
Steve Berry - The Omega Factor
Steve Berry has over 25 million books in print in 40 languages. His first three novels were stand-alone thrillers, The Amber Room, The Romanov Prophecy, and Third Secret. In 2006, he began his treme…
Mary Laura Philpott - Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and other Explosives
Mary Laura Philpott has appeared on Book Talk for both of her previous books, first in 2015 with her collection of cartoons, Penguins with People Problems. In 2019, we spoke about her collection of …
Lucy Ward - The Empress and the English Doctor, Part 2
We are happy to welcome Lucy Ward back to the program for the second part of our interview. Lucy is a writer and former journalist having written for The Guardian and The Independent. Today, we cont…
Lucy Ward - The Empress and the English Doctor, Part 1
We are delighted to welcome Lucy Ward to the program for the first of a two-part interview. Lucy is a writer and former journalist having written for The Guardian and The Independent. Today we will …
Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, as well as an associate professor of English at American University in Washington, D.C. However, for Book Talk …
William Hazelgrove - Greed in the Gilded Age
William Hazelgrove has written over twenty books including, Madam President: the Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson and Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair. Today we’ll be talking about his most rece…
Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds
We welcome Polly Barton to the show today. Polly is an author, as well as a Japanese literary translator. She is the author of Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning and Longing which is pub…
Jared Goldstein - Real Americans - Part 2
Jared Goldstein is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Roger Williams University School of Law. Today, we have the second of our two-part interview about his recently p…
