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4/27/2009 4:40 PM UTC
Great show. Please continue with the good content! :)
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4/8/2009 8:55 PM UTC
Great show! Please check out the story of a missing boy from Ft. Lauderdale @ www.HopeofFindingaSon.com I will tune in this evening! Best, Terry a O'Neal www.TerryONeal.com
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4/5/2009 9:36 PM UTC
Jane Friedman is so down to earth. Great show, Kate and thanks for all your interviews. This was excellent.
2/15/2009 10:25 PM UTC
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11/16/2008 2:01 PM UTC
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WordSmitten Guidelines. For an author to be a guest on the show, these are our guidelines. (Note: We select editors and publishing executives by invitation only.) 1. We look for guests who have depth, humor, and insight into the craft of writing. 2. If you are a debut author, please send a query letter to our office and include either a synopsis or A.R.E. (advance edition) of your book. 3. If you are self-published, our policy, currently, is to not review non-trade publications. That policy may change in 2009, so check back with us. 4. We receive too many requests to personally respond to each request. If your query letter is brief, polite, and witty, we tend to respond if we are interested in bringing you in as a guest. 5. We produce and broadcast interviews from our studios located in St. Petersburg, Florida. We do broadcast live from our BTR home when our guests are based in New York. Thank you for your interest in being a guest on the WordSmitten about the books broadcast. We appreciate your support of these programs. For more information, visit us at www.wordsmitten.com and if you are interested in our workshops, visit us at Meetup.com for our schedule. The Editors and Staff WordSmitten Media, Inc, (c) 2008 WordSmitten Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. WordSmitten is a registered trademark.
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6/29/2008 4:41 PM UTC
I'll be tuning in to the archived recording. Is this show on iTunes BTR show listings, too?
i'll be tuning in to the archived recording. Is this show on iTunes BTR show listings, too?
6/23/2008 4:47 PM UTC
I enjoyed listening to Joe Skibell's interview. He was entertaining. Keep up the good work, thanks.
6/22/2008 10:25 AM UTC
Just saw you on the Features page today. Sorry I can't listen in live as my show airs same time Sundays for the past year and a half. I'll tune in to the archived recordings.
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5/17/2008 9:22 PM UTC
I'm so sorry I'll miss Natalie Goldberg live, but I'll be traveling on Sunday, the 18th! Darn. I have been a fan since I first bought "Writing Down The Bones" back in 1988 or thereabouts. I'll be sure to catch the archive. Olivia
4/11/2008 3:56 PM UTC
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Date / Time: 11/15/2009 9:00 PM UTC
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Tune in to the fun. Listen every Sunday afternoon at 4 PM for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. Interested in novels, short stories, and non-fiction books? WordSmitten's host, Kate Sullivan, interviews notable authors, editors, literary agents, and publishing executives. These storytellers engage in lively and entertaining discussions about the people, the books, and the business of writing. Listen to authors describing the process, the travel adventures, the researc
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Date / Time: 9/30/2009 11:00 PM UTC
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Kate Sullivan interviews Francine Prose, the author of fifteen books of fiction, including "Blue Angel" -- a finalist for the National Book Award. Her newest book, "Anne Frank: the Book, the Life, the Afterlife," launches this week. Her novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City. ========================= In "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife," Francine Prose, who is author of "Reading Like a Writer," explores the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank’s classic, "The Diary of a Young Girl." Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in Basel, run by the Frank family, this work of literary criticism unravels the complex, fascinating story of the diary and effectively makes the case for it being a work of art from a precociously gifted writer. ====================== WordSmitten. www.wordsmitten.com www.twitter.com/wordsmitten
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His books include: (The Kingdom and the Power, recently reissued in trade paperback by Random House); the inside story of a Mafia family (Honor Thy Father); the changing moral values of America between World War II and the era before AIDS (Thy Neighbor's Wife); a historical memoir about his family's immigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II (Unto the Sons, also recently reissued by Random House); The Bridge, about the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows span between Brooklyn and Staten Island; New York: A Serendipiter's Journey, a series of vignettes and essays on New York; and Fame and Obscurity, a collection of his articles principally from the pages of Esquire magazine, where he was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called "The New Journalism." His most recent book is A Writer's Life, a memoir about the inner workings of a writer's life and the interplay between experience and writing.
Gay Talese lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City. He is working on a book about marriage for Knopf.
Original Air Date: 11/23/2008 9:00 PM UTC
Date / Time: 11/22/2008 3:55 PM UTC
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"In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball’s most respected officials."
After joining the New Jersey State Troopers in 1973, Robert James Delaney was offered an undercover assignment: to infiltrate a New Jersey chapter of the Mob. As an authorized undercover agent, Bob Delaney left colleagues, family members, and close friends, to disappear to become his contrived alias, Bobby Covert, president of Alamo Trucking. The trucking company functioned as "a fully-operational business used by law enforcement as flypaper for snagging wise guys."
"While wearing a wire, Delaney dealt daily with mobsters who modeled themselves after their on-screen counterparts (at the height of The Godfather’s popularity), and even crossed paths with Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco. After three tense years playing a role in which a single slip could cost him his life, Delaney had gathered enough evidence to convict more than 30 members of the Genovese and Bruno crime families."
"Struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder from the strain of his undercover life, Delaney began officiating high school and intramural basketball games as a way to rebuild his life, eventually working his way up to the NBA, where he has been a referee for over two decades."
Delaney discusses the decades of transformation, reinvention, and the ongoing hope to return to a normal life, an ordinary life, that most people take for granted. This is Bob Delaney's true story, now launched in a book that bears the name he used as a mob infiltrator: Bob Covert.
Date / Time: 11/17/2008 6:07 PM UTC
National Book Award's Harold Augenbraum Live, November 16, on WordSmitten Broadcast
Launching Literature's Holy Grail
Alfred Nobel might be spinning unrestrained from his grave over Harold Augenbraum's retort to Swedish judges who shun American literature.
Providing the Swedish panel with a remedy for years of rejection, Augenbraum offers to send Nobel Prize committee members a letter of enlightenment. A long reading list of American authors’ books.
On Sunday, November 16, National Book Foundation (NBF) executive director Harold Augenbraum discusses his vision for the NBF and America’s National Book Awards (US literature’s Holy Grail) on the WordSmitten "About the Books" program.
St. Petersburg, FL (WSN) November 11, 2008 --With a pithy comment to Swedish committee members responsible for the venerable award known as The Nobel Prize in Literature, Harold Augenbraum announced he was mad and was not going to take it anymore.
Sunday, November 16, on the WordSmitten broadcast, this feisty leader of American literati discusses fresh ideas he brings to the National Book Foundation.
Recently named as Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, Augenbraum had been a distinguished director of The Mercantile Library since 1990 and succeeded Neil Baldwin at the NBF.
This week kicks off a celebration of literature, authors, avid readers, and book enthusiasts sponsored annually by the NBF. Winners are announced at the 59th National Book Awards on November 19 in New York City.
During his fourteen years at the Mercantile Library, Augenbraum established the Center for World Literature, The Proust Society of America, the New York Mystery Festival, and the Fadiman Medal for Literature.
He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York Council for the Humanities. The recipient of many significant grants and awards, Augenbraum has directed such literary projects as "Bard of the People: John Steinbeck and His World" for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Finalists for the 2008 National Book Awards include (for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry categories):
FICTION
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)
Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner)
Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)
Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press)
NONFICTION
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf)
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company)
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday)
Jim Sheeler, Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives (The Penguin Press)
Joan Wickersham, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order (Harcourt)
POETRY
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins)
Reginald Gibbons, Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press)
Richard Howard, Without Saying (Turtle Point Press)
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press)
The WordSmitten Weekly Broadcast ("About the Books") is a live podcast, airing each Sunday afternoon on Internet radio station BlogTalkRadio, based in New York City.
A call-in number, (347) 945-6886, will connect listeners to the broadcast on Sunday, November 16, from 4 P.M. to 5 P.M. on the live show.
WordSmitten Media, Inc. (www.wordsmitten.com) is a gateway for professional writers, educators, avid readers, and book publishing executives, providing revealing and informative interviews about the people, the books, and the business of writing since 1999.
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