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  Book Blogger Appreciation Week Chat

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  Date / Time: 9/17/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Category: Books

  
  

  Live chat with some of the participants of Book Blogger Appreciation Week. Panelists include Organizer/Founder: Amy Riley http://www.myfriendamysblog.com Blogger/Participant: Katie Babs http://kbgbabbles.blogspot.com/ Blogger/Participant: Natasha Maw http://blog.mawbooks.com Blogger/Participant: Kathy Roberts http://bermudaonion.wordpress.com Blogger/Participant: Adam http://www.lettersonpages.com

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  Original Air Date: 4/24/2009 10:30 PM UTC

  Excerpt from THE WAY HOME by George Pelecanos

  A brilliant new novel about fathers and sons and the dangers of modern life by “one of the most literary of America’s crime writers” -Associated Press. Read by Dion Graham.
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  • Tags:
  • The Way Home
  • George Pelecanos
  • Crime
  • Novel
  • Hachette Book Group
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• Original Air Date: 4/24/2009 10:15 PM UTC

  Excerpt from THE TURNAROUND by George Pelecanos

  A journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. It is a novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption. Read by Dion Graham
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  • The Turnaround
  • George Pelecanos
  • Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital
  • War
  • Hachette Book Group
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• Original Air Date: 4/24/2009 10:00 PM UTC

  Excerpt from THE NIGHT GARDENER by George Pelecanos

  The haunting story of three cops—one good, one bad, one broken—and the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Read by George Pelecanos
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  • Tags:
  • George Pelecanos
  • The Night Gardener
  • Murder
  • Books
  • Hachette Book Group
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• Original Air Date: 4/22/2009 8:30 PM UTC

  Live interview w/ George Pelecanos, author and producer of The Wire

  George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957. He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. Pelecanos is the author of sixteen crime novels set in and around Washington, D.C. He is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications. Esquire magazine called Pelecanos "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world." He is an Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO hit series "The Wire," and his new novel THE WAY HOME will be published on May 12, 2009.
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  • Tags:
  • The Wire
  • Washington D. C.
  • crime novel
  • family story
  • music
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