Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Peniel E. Joseph, author of THE THIRD RECONSTRUCTION.  In THE THIRD RECONSTRUCTION Joseph weaves in his personal experiences growing up in segregated neighborhood of New York City with three critical periods in history in American history he describes as reconstruction periods: 1865-1898, 1954-1968, and 2008 to the present. In the book he writes, “There is the America that we might call reconstructionist, home to champions of racial democracy, and there is the America that we might call redemptionist, a country that papers over racial, class, and gender hierarchies through an allegiance to white supremacy. Since the nation’s birth, its racial politics have been shaped by an ongoing battle between reconstructionist America and redemptionist America.”

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Diverse Voices Book Review contributor Amanda Moore interviewed Margaret A. Burnham, author of BY HANDS NOW KNOWN.  In the book,  Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960.

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Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Gary Phillips, editor of the short story collection SOUTH CENTRAL NOIR.  In his introduction to the collection, Phillips wrote: "...The settings herein reflect South Central today or chronicle its colorful past, such as the days of the jazz joints along Central Avenue . . . From South Park to East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, from the borderlands of Watts to the one-time Southern Pacific railroad tracks paralleling Slauson Avenue, take a tour of a section of Los Angeles that may be unfamiliar to you but you will get to know, at least a little, by the time you finish reading this entertaining and engaging anthology.”
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After a three-month hiatus for Crime Fiction Picks of the Month, host Hopeton Hay and Crime Fiction Picks cohosts Scott Montgomery, Molly Odintz, and Amanda Moore opened the podcast discussing how they came together to edit or contribute stories to AUSTIN NOIR, a short story collection being published in May 2023 by Akashic Books. The rest of the show topics with time stamps were as follows: 

At the 8:07 mark they discussed their summer crime fiction pick, THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME by Gabino Iglesias,]. 

At the 17:58 they discussed their September crime fiction picks: Scott picked HELL AND BACK by Craig Johnson, Molly selected KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE by Deanna Raybourn, Amanda chose THEY COME AT KNIGHT by Yasmin Angoe, and Hopeton picked VALLEY OF SHADOWS by Rudy Ruiz

At the 24:28 they discussed their latest projects.

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Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Gabino Iglesias, author of THE DEVIL TAES YOU HOME.  Published by Muholland Books, here is a description of the plot: "Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico."  To read the full description of the book click here.

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Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Rudy Ruiz, author of the novel Valley of Shadows.  "...Through luminous prose and soul-searching reflections, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains..."  More information on the novel is available at VALLEY OF SHADOWS | Rudy Ruiz.

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Charlise Lyles, author of DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?  Charlise’s memoir covers her rise from a struggling student to winning a scholarship to a prestigious private school through the lens of race, family, and poverty from 1968 to 1977.   It reveals the role her father, though absent, played in inspiring her love of literature, the turbulent racial climate of Cleveland, and her coming of age.  You can purchase the book at https://www.grayco.com/product/do-i-dare-disturb-the-universe/ or https://www.amazon.com/Do-Dare-Disturb-Universe-Projects/dp/159851041X#:~:text=A%20memoir%20of%20race%20and,riots%20and%20a%20neighborhood%20murder.

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Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Terry Dawson, author of THE AFTER: Poems Only A Planet Could Love.  “Dawson's poems explore the beauty and fragility of our planet and remind us of our responsibility to protect it.”

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On Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Mark Pryor, author of DIE AROUND SUNDOWN.  In the novel, French Police detective Henri Lefort is given five days by the Germans to solve the murder, in the Louvre Museum, of one of their own.  More information on the book is available on Pryor’s web site, markpryorbooks.com/books. 

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Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Meng Jin, author of the short story collection SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST.  From the publishers web page: “Written during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic, these stories explore intimacy and isolation, coming-of-age and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China, and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight, Self-Portrait with Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened self-consciousness, seemingly endless access to knowledge, and little actual power.”. More information on SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST is available at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/self-portrait-with-ghost-meng-jin?variant=39727621308450.

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