Archive for January, 2009

Family Secrets: Ben Binstock and Hallie Ephron

January 28th, 2009

Today’s theme is family secrets. We talk first with art historian Benjamin Binstock  about VERMEER’S FAMILY SECRETS: Genius, Discovery and the Unknown Apprentice. Then, a poem by Constatijn Huygens. And mystery writer Hallie Ephron delves into another family’s secrets in her debut solo novel, NEVER TELL A LIE.

Swerling’s CITY OF GOD and Michelson’s AS GOOD AS ANYBODY

January 17th, 2009

We talk to novelist Beverly Swerling about the latest in her historical series about Old New York, CITY OF GOD. Also, children’s book author Richard Michelson, tells us about his latest, AS GOOD AS ANYBODY: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom.

Tyler Boudreau, PACKING INFERNO

January 10th, 2009

Writers Voice spends the hour with former Marine Captain Tyler Boudreau. His brutally honest, brilliantly written memoir is PACKING INFERNO: The Unmaking of a Marine. Boudreau also educates the public on veterans’ issues and is the founder of Collaborative Revolution. He is planning a 2009 cross country bicycle trip by veterans to “to positively re-invest [...]

Best of 2008

January 5th, 2009

It was tough, but we did it: we winnowed down the list of wonderful guests and their books to the Ten Best Books featured on Writer’s Voice in 2008. This week’s show features excerpts from our interviews with four of them. In the fiction category, we talk with Kevin Patterson (CONSUMPTION) and Elizabeth Strout (OLIVE [...]