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Charlotte Readers Podcast: Alice Osborn and David Poston

July 23, 2019

Socially conscious poetry, essays and songs In today’s episode, we meet poet and prose writers Alice Osborn and David Poston, who share their socially conscious poetry, essays and songs (Alice sings, not David, who only hums a bit). We explore a variety of thought-provoking and haunting topics, including David’s essay…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Greg Jarrell

July 16, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

A Riff of Love: Notes on Community and Belonging In today’s episode, we meet Greg Jarrell, pastor, community activist, saxophonist and author of A Riff of Love, a melodic true story of his life in Enderly Park, a Charlotte community misunderstood and often ignored by the movers and shakers in…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Jeff Jackson

July 9, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

Destroy All Monsters – Literary Mystery In this Charlotte Readers Podcast episode, we meet Jeff Jackson, whose latest book “Destroy All Monsters” has been called “the last rock novel” and what Ben Marcus called a book that “surges with new-century anxiety and paranoia…A clear-eyed, stone-cold vision of what’s to come.”…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: David Radavich and Dede Wilson

July 2, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

In today’s episode, we meet David Radavich and Dede Wilson, two very talented and well-published Charlotte poets.

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Kathryn Schwille

June 25, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

“What Luck, This Life” In today’s episode, we meet Kathryn Schwille, author of What Luck, This Life, a story about life on the ground following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. In this engaging literary work, the fictional town of Kiser, Texas becomes a central character in the novel when the space…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Miriam Herin and Christy Hallberg

June 18, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

Stories and Essays In today’s episode, we meet authors Miriam Herin and Christy Alexander Hallberg, who came to Charlotte for a North Carolina Literary Review reading event at Park Road Books. This episode includes their stories about Cambodian refugees and mercy, Christy’s story about Freedie Mercury, the star of the rock group…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Lisa Saunders

June 11, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

“Even At The Grave” In today’s episode, we meet Lisa Saunders, author of “Even at the Grave” and despite the title, it’s not a horror story, just the opposite. This is a memoir, but not a sad one. Though it might make you cry when you read the book, you…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Abigail DeWitt

June 4, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

Love and Loss in World War II France In today’s episode, we meet Abigail DeWitt, author News of Our Loved Ones, a novel that begins in June 1944 with the Allied invasion of France that leaves some family members in Normandy with only hours to live and others in Paris…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Mark de Castrique

May 28, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

Mystery Novelist Puts the FUN in Funeral In today’s episode, we meet Mark de Castrique, author of 18 mystery novels, in two mystery series, and a number of short stories, too. Mark is well-versed in the mystery genre and shares his years of knowledge about what makes for a good…

Charlotte Readers Podcast: Meets Charlotte Squawks

May 24, 2019

Charlotte Readers Podcast

Mike Collins and Brian Kahn In today’s episode, we meet Charlotte Squawks co-producers Mike Collins and Brian Kahn at a Charlotte Squawks rehearsal and explore the mania that has become a Charlotte music stage tradition in the Booth Playhouse at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Brian writes the song lyrics…