In The Author's Voice

Wildlife photographer Tom Murphy has spent much of his career photographing the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park. For this edition of In The Author's Voice, Murphy talks about how he approaches his photography as well as his new book, "Yellowstone Bison: Return of the Last Wild Herd."

In May, the US Postal Service dedicated the American Bison stamp featuring an image of a bison from one of Murphy's photographs. Earlier this month, Murphy's book on the bison of Yellowstone, was published.

On this edition of In The Author's Voice, Friday is World Eosinophilic Esophagitis Day.

Dr. Evan Dellon is the Director of the UNC Center for Esphageal Diseases and Swallowing. He talks about one of the fastest growing digestive diseases in the U.S. EoE affects an estimated 1 in 700 people. It's symptoms include difficulty swallowing, food getting stuck, and pain when eating. EoE can disrupt daily life, create anxiety around meals, and lead to food impaction.

More information about EoE is available from the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice, author and SIU Law School alum Eric Coulson talks about his novel "The Chrysalis Option."

On this edition of In The Author's Voice, gerontologist Macie Smith talks about aging and what getting older means.

Macie talks with WSIU's Jeff Williams about how getting older doesn't have to be a negative, if you give yourself permission to approaching aging as a positive.

On this edition of InFocus, Mountain Stage Artistic Director and host Larry Groce talks about an upcoming compilation album that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the program.

For 40-years, Mountain Stage has introduced public radio listeners to the best of live performance music from its home stage in Charleston, West Virginia. In celebration of the show's 40th Anniversary there's a new compilation album that releases on April 19, 2024. Larry talks about Live on Mountain Stage: Outlaws & Outliers.

Mountain Stage airs on WSIU Saturday at 5:00pm and Sunday at 10:00 am.

A new book chronicles the origin of public broadcasting as it grew out of the fledgling days of radio and TV in the 1920’s and 30’s.

Josh Shepperd is an assistant professor at the University Colorado Boulder and the Director of the Sound Submission Project at the Library of Congress. He talked with WSIU's Jeff Williams about his book “Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting."

Just about a month away from the region's second total solar eclipse in seven years, a new children's book helps prepare kids for the big event.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice we talk with Nebraska mom, Jayme Sandberg, who was inspired to write a children's book after experiencing the total solar eclipse in 2017. Her new book is "Total Solar Eclipse: A Stellar Friendship."

You can find out more about the book as well as its associated educational materials at www.solareclipsebook.com.

Have you ever heard of PAD? Chances are you haven't - even though it is the leading cause of amputations in the U.S. and impacts more than 12-million Americans annually. Peripheral Artery Disease also disproportionately impacts black and brown populations.

A new campaign, Get a Pulse on PAD, aims to raise awareness of Peripheral Artery Disease. WSIU's Jeff Williams recently talked with Dr. Anahita Dua, a vascular surgeon and associate professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School about PAD.

More information is available online at https://padpulse.org.

To escape winter, many birds fly south. But for birds who choose to stay in southern Illinois they've developed some unique ways to cope with the cold.

Nature reporter Kevin Boucher talks with Avian Ecologist Dr. Jeff Hoover of the University of Illinois about some of the ways birds survive winter here in southern Illinois.

A new book is out about a southern Illinois family’s struggles with mental illness and the hope it offers for other families experiencing similar struggles.

The author is White County native Kandace Davis.

WSIU's Brad Palmer spoke with her about the book entitled Out of the Night that Covers Me.