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WordSmitten produces the About the Books broadcast on Sunday afternoons at 5 PM. Our interviews for 2014 include Johnny Temple, book publisher (Akashic Books), and chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council. Recent segments include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King (Devil in the Grove), literary legend Tom Robbins, Guy Kawasaki (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur (APE): How to Publish a Book") and Sara Nelson, returning guest to talk about her legendary career as editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly (PW), as book editor of the Oprah Magazine, and now editorial director of a division of Amazon. Visit www.About-the-Books.com for all our interviews with great authors. WordSmitten. www.WordSmitten.com www.About-the-Books.com www.twitter.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.WordSmittenMedia.com

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Tune in to the fun. Listen every Sunday afternoon at 4:00 PM EST for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. WordSmitten's host, Kate Sullivan, interviews notable authors, editors, literary agents, and publishing executives.... more
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Kate Sullivan talks with the author of "Last Last Chance." Fiona Maazel, in her first novel, writes "a rollicking comic tale about (in no particular order) plague, narcotics recovery, and reincarnation." Maazel was the 2005 Lannan Foundation... more
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WordSmitten "About the Books." Kate Sullivan talks with Peter Manseau, who spent several years working at the National Yiddish Book Center in Massachusetts and is a memoirist, founder of the webzine... more
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WordSmitten "About the Books" Broadcast. WordSmitten features a lively interview with Sara Nelson of Publishers Weekly on Sunday, September 7, at 4PM. For more than three years, Sara Nelson has been the editor in chief of... more
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WordSmitten "About the Books" Broadcast. Random House's hottest new author, Sana Krasikov, appears live on Sunday, August 31, at 4 PM to talk with Kate Sullivan. Krasikov's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, the... more
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WordSmitten "About the Books" Broadcast. Interviews with notable authors, editors, and literary agents. Kate Sullivan talks with author Michael Gannon about his recent book, "Michael Gannon's History of Florida in 40 Minutes."
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WordSmitten "About the Books" Broadcast. Kate Sullivan talks with author Nicole Galland about her newest book, "Crossed," and the writing life that she leads while traveling the world. Visit her site: www.nicolegalland.com to learn more... more
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William Winokur, author of "Marathon" and "The Perfect Game" and producer of the film of the same name, talks with Kate Sullivan about the astonishing winning streak and a quest to win the 1957 Little League championship.
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Author and film producer William Winokur received his early education at The Horace Mann School (founded in 1887 as a coeducational and experimental unit of Teachers College at Columbia University). The Horace Mann School... more
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David Leavitt, author of "The Indian Clerk" and "Family Dancing," talks about his secret pleasure and coffee down under on his recent trip to an Aussie writing conference. David Leavitt graduated from Yale University in 1983 with a BA in... more
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