By J Hall
The Okie Bookcast is dedicated to helping curious readers like you find your next great read by connecting you to Oklahoma authors and stories. The show features monthly interviews with contributor
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Welcome to Your Next Great Read for September 2024! J and Hannah are joined by author, Tyler Lenz, to talk books. We cover a ton of ground - everything from rocky aliens to bridezillas to saber-toothed tigers. And a lot of love for Matt Haig. Something for every reader!
Get ready to fill your TBR list with more great books.
Connect with Tyler: Facebook
Get Tyler's Books: The Seam | Beyond the Seam
Connect with Hannah: website | Twitter | Instagram
Discussed on the Show:
Tyler
Scythe - Neal Shustermann
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinnimann
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Hannah
Hell House - Richard Matheson
Incidents Around the House - Josh Malerman
The Wedding People - Allison Espach
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
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The Life Impossible - Matt Haig
The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
The Seam - Tyler Lenz
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O - Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Welcome to Chapter 63! My guest should be a familiar voice to long-time listeners - Rilla Askew joined me for Chapter 30 to talk about her novel, Prize for the Fire. She's back to talk about her new collection of short stories: The Hungry and the Haunted, available from Belle Point Press on September 17.
Rilla is the author of multiple novels, story collections, and creative non-fiction. She's the recipient of the Oklahoma Book Award and the American Book Award, among other honors.
In our conversation we talk about her short fiction and her novels, her use of place in her fiction, and we spend some time celebrating the incredible literary culture of Oklahoma.
Connect with Rilla: website | Instagram
Conversation with Casie Dodd from Belle Point Press (C. 55)
Conversation with Rob Roensch (C. 53)
Mentioned on the Show:
Prize for the Fire - Rilla Askew
Belle Point Press (order The Hungry and the Haunted)
In the Morning, the City is the Prairie - Rob Roensch
Ben Myers
Best American Short Stories (2023)
I Can Hear Everything from Here - Mark Walling
Bruce Springsteen
William Faulkner
James Baldwin
Wolf Hall Trilogy - Hillary Mantel
okiebookcast.com/bookstores - The list of Oklahoma independent bookstores
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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We celebrated the second anniversary of Your Next Great Read by recording this show in front of a live audience at Second Story Books in OKC! In addition to the second anniversary of this show, this is also the 100th episode of the Okie Bookcast!
We talk about a ton of books with our guest, Magen Runyan, and also get quick reviews from a couple of special guests and recommendations from the crowd for our backlist category.
Connect with Magen Runyan: Instagram | YouTube | TikTok
Connect with Luke Swanson: website | Instagram | TikTok
Connect with Garrett Queener: Instagram | TikTok
Connect with Hannah: website | Twitter | Instagram
Second Story Books in OKC: website | Instagram
Mentioned on the Show:
Magen
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You To Hate - Anna Bogutskaya
The Orchard - Jeffrey Stepakof
I am Number Four - Pittacus Lore
Luke
The Reappearance of Rachel Price - Holly Jackson
Garrett
The Mist - Stephen King
Hannah
We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer
The Handler - Garrett Queener
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
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The Hungry and the Haunted - Rilla Askew
The Last Murder at the End of the World - Stuart Turton
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Visit okiebookcast.com for links to all of the crowd backlist recommendations!
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Welcome to Chapter 62 of the Okie Bookcast!
My guest is children's author, Toby Rowland. Toby has been the Voice of the Sooners for the last 13 years. He is also the host of the “T-Row in the Morning Show” on KREF in Norman and is an on-air Sports Contributor for KWTV (OKC) and KOTV (Tulsa). Toby released his first children's book, featuring University of Oklahoma mascots Boomer and Sooner, in 2020 and has just released a second book - "Put the Ponies in the Barn: Boomer and Sooner Take Their Wagon to the SEC". In our conversation we talk about his books and his writing, working with his illustrator - Rob Peters, and the challenges presented by working with protected intellectual properties like college mascots. Whether you’re a sports fan or not, you’re going to enjoy hearing from Toby.
Connect with Toby: Twitter | Instagram
Mentioned on the Show:
Go Cubs Go - Marv Levy and Rob Peters
A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour - John Feinstein
Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black - John Feinstein
Play by Play - Verne Lundquist
Quiet Strength - Tony Dungy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Welcome to the July edition of Your Next Great Read! J and Hannah are joined by YA author, Candace Kade, to talk books. We cover a ton of ground - everything from murder mysteries to teen angst to Japanese dragons. Something for every reader!
Get ready to fill your TBR list with more great books.
Connect with Candace: website | Instagram
Get Candace's Books: Enhanced | Hybrid
Connect with Hannah: website | Twitter | Instagram
Candace
Calculated - Nova McBee
Suspended in the Stars - E.A. Hendryx
Saints and Monsters - Ellen McGinty
The Water Child - Ellen McGinty
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
Hannah
Liar’s Beach - Katie Cotugno
Sundown - Hudson Haskins
Brother - Ania Ahlborn
Seed - Ania Ahlborn
A Flicker in the Dark - Stacy Willingham
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
I Must Say: My Humble Life as a Comedy Legend - Martin Short
Machine Learning - Hugh Howey
Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Welcome to Volume 9 of Behind the Rain - our second anniversary edition!
We've been celebrating Oklahoma poetry for two years now and have, in total, presented 105 poems from 46 fantastic poets. For this volume we have 14 poems from 12 poets.
Here's the lineup:
Spring High Noons - Abigail Pappas
On the Banks of the Canadian - Lydia Renfro
Mother Raccoon - David Jennings
Double Rainbow, Just East of Wanette - Ken Hada
Bugs - Cassie Grimm
The Almanac Knows Nothing - Brand Rackley
Rattlin' Bones - Alicia Daggs
The Reason We Gather for the Solar Eclipse - Linda Neal Reising
If You Missed the House Concert - Rob Sturma
Like a Leaf and Sleep Comforts - Ruth Key
Radical Acceptance - Durell Carter
Last Look at Indiahoma before Old 62 Takes You Somewhere Else - Seth Copeland
The End of Summers - Abigail Pappas
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It's Chapter 61 of the Bookcast!
This month, I sat down with three amazing Bookstagrammers - Grace Filer, Clay Mattox, and Jessica Berg - to talk about the Bookstagram community and each of their unique approaches to being a part of the ecosystem. We talk about a ton of books, but also about talking about books and building community around a shared passion for reading.
Grace Filer is the Cofounder of If Books Could Thrill, a thriller book club in the metro OKC area and she’s been on Bookstagram for 2.5 years.
Grace's Bookstagram: @gracevelynreads
Clay Mattox is a reader who rediscovered a love of books in adulthood. He’s one of the four Book Bros OK on Bookstagram who host book clubs at Bluebird Books in Edmond and Second Story Books in OKC.
Clay's Bookstagram: @madoc_grams_literature and @book_bros_ok
Jessica Berg is a Librarian who works in cancer research & runs multiple monthly book clubs.
Jessica's Bookstagram: @biblioberg
Books and Resources Mentioned on the Show:
Monstrulio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
House on the Cerulian Sea - TJ Klune
The Women - Kristin Hannah
The Ex Talk - Rachel Lynn Solomon
Emily Henry
It - Stephen King
We Are All the Same in the Dark - Julia Heaberlin
Dreamland Burning - Jennifer Latham
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
Wanderers - Chuck Wendig
The Stand - Stephen King
Cell - Stephen King
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Books in the Freezer Podcast
Instagram: Michael Laborne
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
Monk and Robot Series - Becky Chambers
Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
Now is not the Time to Panic - Kevin Wilson
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth - Kevin Wilson
The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
Wayward - Chuck Wendig
Outlander series
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Welcome back to Your Next Great Read! Hannah and J are back with tons of recommendations and reviews for curious readers like you.
Remember - you can purchase any of the titles we discuss via the links below or on our Bookshop.org online store. Every book you buy helps out the Bookcast AND a local bookstore of your choosing. Win. Win. Win.
Connect with Hannah: website | Twitter | Instagram
Hannah
Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Landline - Rainbow Rowell
The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward?
Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
The Mist - Stephen King
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You Like It Darker - Stephen King
Swan Song - Robert McCammon
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinnimann
The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime - Vernor Vinge
Why Call Them Back From Heaven? - Clifford Simak
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Welcome to Chapter 60! And welcome back! I'm so excited to be back from hiatus and bringing you bookish conversations with great authors like Jeff Schmidt.
Jeff is the author of the brand new book Here Today: Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting against the Odds. Jeff is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma where he has taught since 2005. Jeff specializes in innovation and he also serves as Associate Division Director of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. Jeff has been exploring ghost towns for more than 25 years and spent 4 years and traveled 8,000 miles working on the Here Today book.
In our conversation we get to hear a ton of stories about these towns across Oklahoma as well as the thought and care and passion Jeff brought to this project. It is a fascinating look at our wild state that I know you’re going to love.
Connect with Jeff: Website | Twitter |Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn
Check out the brand new FREE course: Marketing through Podcast Appearances
Mentioned on the Show:
Ghost Towns of Kansas - Daniel C. Fitzgerald
Ghost Towns of Oklahoma - John Morris
From Strength to Strength - Arthur Brooks
Build the Life You Want - Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Hardy Boys - Franklin W. Dixon
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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It's Volume 8 of Behind the Rain! I've got 11 poems from 10 Oklahoma poets cued up and ready for you to enjoy. Be sure to connect with the poets across their social media (linked below) to let them know how much you appreciate their work.
Here's the lineup for this edition of the anthology:
April and Winter - Aubrey Green
Local News From Where We Met - Seth Copeland
Unhatched and Broken - David Jennings
And I See It Clearly - Abagail Pappas
Gut Shot - Brand Rackley
Approaching Seventy - Ron Wallace
Murrah - Paul Juhasz
Next Time - Holly Jahangiri
Trying - Clay Mattox
Untitled #5 - Jes McCutchen
If you'd like to submit a poem for consideration for Volume Nine of Behind the Rain (releasing July 15, 2024), visit okiebookcast.com/behindtherain for details. Submission deadline is June 15!
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