Radio Book Tour recently visited Asheville North Carolina and had a great time taking in the amazing landscapes.The place is startlingly beautiful –nestled in the forested slopes of the Appalachian mountains–the area is bathed in beauty and se

Interview with Denise Kiernan

Jul 1st, 2018

Radio Book Tour this last month took a swing down south to visit the city of Asheville, North Carolina. Home of the author Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg and the short story writer O’Henry.One of our reasons to take the roadtrip was to meet Deni

Interview with Debra Dean

Jun 13th, 2018 34m 36s

Debra Dean is the bestselling author of four critically acclaimed books that have been published in twenty-one languages. Her debut,,The Madonnas of Leningrad was a New York Times Editors’ Choice novel, a #1 Booksense Pick, a Booklist Top Ten

Interview with Teresa Bruce

May 30th, 2018 21m 46s

Teresa Bruce’s new memoir, The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway is due out June 13th from Seal Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, a Hachette Book CompanyThe book as many readers have said is “unputdownable” –it

Interview with Sarah Bird

1 May 10th, 2018 40m 30s

Listen to an exceptional interview by co-host Erika as she talks to Sarah Bird a great American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. Sarah was born in 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father was an officer in the US Air Force, and her fami

Interview with Mary Helen Specht

Apr 5th, 2018

Our next interview while in Austin was with Mary Helen Specht whose novel Migratory Animals focuses on two locales, Nigeria and Austin. The central story deals with a woman and her family struggling to come to terms with Huntington’s disease b

Interview with Oscar Casares

Apr 4th, 2018

Oscar Casares is the author of one very well received novel, Amigoland and a book of short stories, Brownsville Stories. Oscar looks and talks every inch an author from Hollywood’s central casting. In our conversation he tells us how he got sta

Interview with Ben Fountain

Jan 21st, 2018 52m 39s

For our fifth episode of the tour we took a trip down to North Carolina to visit with award winning novelist Ben Fountain. Fountain was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and grew up in the tobacco country North Carolina. Fountain earned a B.A

Interview with Charles Baxter

Jan 11th, 2018

Radio Book Tour braves the center of winter–Minneapolis St Paul to be exact[ in the bleakest month of January 2018 to visit one of that city’s favorite sons, Charles Baxter.Baxter is the author of four notable novels–Shadow Play (1993). As hi

Episode 3: Interview with Rafael Alvarez

Dec 8th, 2017 29m 54s

Radio Book Tour Co-host Jessica Pomerantz talks to Baltimore author Rafael Alvarez about the city he loves. The conversation moves from his latest work, Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown to his life and times growing up in

Episode 2: Interview with Alia Malek: Author of the Home that Was Our Country

Dec 8th, 2017 55m 36s

Alia Malek[/caption]Our latest podcast–Episode 2 features an interview with Alia Malek–she is an award-winning journalist and civil rights lawyer. She is the author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria and A Country Called Amre

Welcome to the First Episode of Radio Book Tour’s Preview Episode

Oct 9th, 2017 21m 18s

So we did it! We are now officially launched and we are driving the Radio Book Tour bus through a city near you. Our first stop this month is Baltimore. We will be visiting other cities not only in the US but around the world. Check out our pod

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