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Bill welcomes poet, publisher and editor Clifford Brooks to the show. Clifford is the founder of the Southern Collective Experience and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mountain Review. He hosts Dante's Old South on NPR/WUTC and This Business of Music & Poetry. He has three books of poetry: The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Exiles of Eden. He currently bounces around Georgia writing his new collection, The Book of Old Gods. His poetry/fiction hybrid, The Salvation of Cowboy Blue Crawford, is due out in the spring of 2022. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes suspense novelist Joseph Reid to the show. Joseph is a patent attorney and the author of a popular series about air marshal Seth Walker. His most recent book is Departure, in which Walker is called to investigate the disappearance of an electrical engineer from one of America’s premier tech companies who disappears inside the San Francisco International Airport before an overseas flight. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes journalist, music critic, and debut fiction author David Hajdu to the show. David  is the music critic for The Nation and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining The Nation in January 2015, he served for more than ten years as the music critic for The New Republic. His most recent book, Adrianne Geffel, is "fictional work of nonfiction," a biography of a nonexistent songwriter. He is currently working on a nonfiction book about artificial creativity, in addition to collaborating with the artist John Carey on a book of graphic nonfiction for Columbia University Press. David also published four books of nonfiction and one collection of essays: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (1996), Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña (2001), The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (2008), Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (2009), and Love for Sale: Pop Music in America (fall 2016). Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes internationally bestselling suspense writer Brad Parks to the show. Brad is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 15 languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major pre-publication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with The Washington Post and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes author and educator Jen Knox to the show. Jen is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. She is also is the co-owner of Unleash Creatives. Her books include the short story collections The Glass City and After the Gazebo, and her novel-in-stories, RESOLUTIONS. Her writing has been nominated for the Pen Faulkner, The Best of the Net, and a Pushcart. Her stories have been featured in textbooks, classrooms, and both online and print publications around the world. Her fiction appears in The Best Small Fictions 2017, The Adirondack Review, Sivana East, Chicago Tribune's Printers Row, Chicago Quarterly Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Crannog, Elephant Journal, Fairlight Books, Fiction Southeast, Juked, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, MJI News, Poor Claudia, The Saturday Evening Post, The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, NPR, Short Story America, and Sequestrum, among over a hundred other publications. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes architect and author Donald M. Rattner to the show. Donald's professional and academic activities have been featured on CNN and in such publications as The New York Times, Work Design Magazine, Better Humans, Town & Country, Robb Report, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, Builder, Traditional Building, L-Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, ChildArt Magazine, Design Milk, and Core77. Donald is also the author of My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, The Creativity Catalog, and Parallel of the Classical Orders of Architecture.  Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes novelist and coach Rea Frey to the show. Rea is an award-winning author of several nonfiction books and the novels Not Her Daughter, Because You’re Mine, and Until I Find You. She is also the founder and CEO of Writeway, which teaches writers about the business of publishing—not just the craft. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes author Sharon Harrigan to the show. Sharon is the author of the new novel Half. In a starred review Booklist said, “Fans of Jeffrey Eugenides, Andre Dubus III, and Jane Smiley will adore Harrigan’s suspenseful, lyrical, and consuming exploration of two difficult lives, intertwined. . . Raw and powerful, Half will stay with you.” Publisher’s Weekly wrote, “Harrigan’s bold stylistic choices and memorable voice lend the novel a sense of mystery and magic, well suited to the themes of childhood fears and adult disillusionment. Riveting and inventive, this is a cut above the average coming of age tale.” Foreword Reviews called Half “gripping” and New York Journal of Books called the point of view “astonishingly effective.” Sharon is also the author of the memoir Playing with Dynamite. She teaches writing at WriterHouse in Charlottesville, where she lives with her family. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes author and educator Geraldine Woods to the show. Geraldine  has taught and tutored every level of English from 5th grade through AP for more than four decades. She makes snarky comments on grammar and usage in her blog, www.grammarianinthecity.com. She is the author of more than 50 books, most recently, 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way. She's written many Dummies books, including Basic English Grammar for Dummies, English Grammar for Dummies, English Grammar Workbook for Dummies, Research Papers For Dummies,College Admissions Essays For Dummies, and the SAT For Dummies. She also wrote AP English Literature and Composition, AP English Language and Composition, and Webster's New World Punctuation: Simplified and Applied. Don't miss it, or Geraldine will scold you!

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Bill welcomes memoirist, aviator, and professor Cecilia Aragon to the show. Cecilia is a professor at the University of Washington, and the winner of many awards for her work. She’s published hundreds of articles, co-authored the book Writers in the Secret Garden, taught astronauts to fly, and worked with Nobel Prize winners. Her innovative research has been lauded by President Obama. She is also the author of Flying Free, a memoir of her journey from fearful child to airshow pilot. She overcame her fears to become an aerobatic champion, and then used what she learned from flying to achieve her goals in life. Don't miss it!