Jul 3, 2013
Brian Mockenhaupt, an intrepid and elite reporter of the living,
turns his eye to those long gone. And as we near the 150th
anniversary of that bloodiest battle at Gettysburg, Mockenhaupt,
through his deft skill as an information gatherer, writes a
compelling story about friendship, love, and loss in the most
famous...
Jun 21, 2013
Sheri Booker’s memoir Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner
City Funeral Home chronicles her near-decade long experience
immersed the culture of death. Everything from picking up bodies to
preserving them in the inner sanctum of Wylie Funeral Home. In it
Booker learns that death knows no age and that a funeral...
Jun 8, 2013
In Episode 4, I welcome Harrison Scott Key, winner of Creative
Nonfictin's "Southern Sin" essay contest. The essay, titled "The
Wishbone", is a hilarious account of Key's father suiting up his
too-old son to win a pee-wee football game. In this conversation,
we talk about "The Wishbone", where Key found his...
Apr 12, 2013
Well, what didn't we hit on? It was a pop culture kind of podcast.
Let's face it, it had to be since author and Barrelhouse nonfiction
editor Tom McAllister joined me to talk about "Bring the Noise: The
Best Pop Culture Essays from Barrelhouse Magazine". McAllister is
the author of "Bury Me in My Jersey: A Memoir of My...
Mar 20, 2013
Susan Kushner Resnick is the author of "Goodbye Wifes and
Daughters," which won a gold medal for nonfiction from the
Independent Publisher’s Book Awards. Her first book, "Sleepless
Days: One Woman’s Journey Through Postpartum Depression," was the
first PPD memoir by an American author. In her latest book,...