Author: Brad Meltzer Books: I AM WALT DISNEY & I AM MARIE CURIE (Ordinary People Change the World Series) Publishing: Dial Books (September 10, 2019) Synopses (from the Publisher): The 18th picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Walt Disney, who made dreams come true. […]

Here’s my Davenport Cleaners Halftime interview with Grammy Award-winning comedian Lewis Black, who is bringing his THE JOKE’S ON US TOUR to the Orpheum Theater on Saturday, September 21 at 7:30 PM.  Tickets are on sale here. Lewis and I talked about…well…lots of stuff.  Politicians in Iowa, the internet, culture, and his career as a […]

Author: Reed Farrel Coleman Book: Robert B. Parker’s THE BITTEREST PILL: A Jesse Stone Novel Publishing: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (September 10, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker’s New York Times-bestselling series. […]

Here is my Davenport Cleaners Halftime Interview with Dan McCarney.  He was an offensive lineman at Iowa from 1972-74.  He served as a graduate assistant there from 1977-78 under head coach Bob Commings and as the defensive line coach under Hayden Fry from 1979-1989.  After 5 years on Barry Alvarez‘s staff at Wisconsin, he became […]

Author: Sean Parnell Book: ALL OUT WAR: A Novel Publishing: William Morrow (September 3, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): “Eric Steele and author Sean Parnell are the real deal.”— Lee Child Special operative Eric Steele, introduced in Man of War, is on the hunt for a formidable Russian terrorist in this high-intensity tale of international […]

Author: Karin Slaughter Book: THE LAST WIDOW: A Novel Publishing: William Morrow (August 20, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming A mysterious kidnapping […]

Author: Steve Rushin Book: NIGHTS IN WHITE CASTLE: A Memoir Publishing: Little, Brown and Company (August 20, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin brilliantly captures a bygone era, and the thrills of new adulthood in the early 80s.   It begins in […]

Co-Author: Tom O’Neill (with Dan Piepenbring) Book: CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties Publishing: Little, Brown and Company (June 25, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): A journalist’s twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI’s involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous […]

Author: T. Jefferson Parker Book: THE LAST GOOD GUY (A Roland Ford Novel) Publishing: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (August 13, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): In this electrifying new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark […]

Here’s my Davenport Cleaners Halftime Show interview with three-time Grammy Award-winning performer Delbert McClinton.  The singer-songwriter recently released his latest album, Tall, Dark, & Handsome.  Delbert wrote or co-wrote every track on the album, which features his band, Self-Made Men + Dana. During the interview, we discuss his creative process, the royalties he receives from […]