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Interview: Linda DeFruscio, Author of ‘Cornered: Dr. Richard J. Sharpe As I...

My guest today is Linda DeFruscio, author and founder of A & A Laser, Electrolysis & Skin Care Associates. Her memoir, Cornered, is about her friendship with Richard Sharpe, the millionaire...

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Interview: Marija Bulatovic, Author of ‘FANTASTICAL: Tales of Bears, Beer and...

Please welcome Marija Bulatovic, debut author of the memoir,  FANTASTICAL: Tales of Bears, Beer and Haemophilia. Born in Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Marija immigrated to the U.S. in the 1990s just ahead...

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Interview with Helga Stipa Madland, Author of ‘You’re Not From Around Here,...

Helga Stipa Madland was born in Upper Silesia in 1939 and moved to the United States in 1953. She has a PhD in German literature with a minor in Spanish, taught German literature at OU from 1981 to...

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Interview: Laura Munson, Author of the Memoir ‘This is Not the Story You...

Laura Munson is the New York Times and international best-selling author of This Is Not The Story You Think It Is (Putnam 2010) and founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreat. Her essay in the New...

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Interview: Elisabeth Amaral, Author of ‘Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup’

Elisabeth Amaral was born in Brooklyn, New York. She has had multiple careers, including jewelry designer, co-owner of a children’s boutique (Czar Nicholas and the Toad), co-owner of a restaurant in...

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Book Review: ‘Breaking Through: Discovering the Riches Within’ by Allan...

Breaking Through is McDougall’s inspirational story of astonishing transformation from a hard rock miner in Northern Ontario, as deep in alcoholism as he was underground, and his journey back into the...

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Book Review: Armando ‘Chunky’ Ibarra –‘Loyalty and Betrayal,’ An Inside Look...

Armando ‘Chunky’ Ibarra’s true crime memoir. Armando “Chunky” Ibarra’s raw memoir Loyalty and Betrayal plays out like shadow puppets cast over the reeling history of the United States drug war. He is...

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Book Review: ’90 Church: Inside America’s Notorious First Narcotics Squad’ by...

Before there was a DEA, America’s war on drugs was handled by an agency called the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The New York office was headquartered at 90 Church, a retired post office in Lower...

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Book Review: ‘The Education of a Traitor’ by Svetlana Grobman

The Education of a Traitor by Svetlana Grobman is a memoir about growing up in Russia during the Cold War.  It is the story of a young Jewish girl, who learns her place in society, and in her family,...

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Profile: Author Barry Hornig

Were you on line at Studio 54? Did you ever swap drugs for gold in Tangiers? Or try on a dog collar at the Botany Club? Ever marry a countess or a Playboy playmate? Meet Barry. He did all of that and a...

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Interview: Michael Ditchfield, Author of ‘Life’s Too Short for Leftovers – 9...

Michael Ditchfield grew up in northern England where he attended Bradford University and played professional soccer. He moved to the United States where he continued his education and sports career....

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Book Review: ‘The Storyteller: My Years with Ernest Thompson Seton’ by Leila...

The Storyteller: My Years with Ernest Thompson Seton by Leila Moss Knox is a book that beautifully shares the stories and legend of Ernest Thompson Seton, Leila’s uncle, whom she called “Granddaddy.”...

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Book Review: ‘After Woodstock’ by Elliot Tiber

Elliot Tiber’s spirited and bestselling memoir from 2007, Taking Woodstock, cowritten by Tom Monte, was made into an acclaimed 2009 motion picture by two-time Oscar winning director Ang Lee. Its...

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Interview: Elliot Tiber, Author of ‘After Woodstock’

Elliot Tiber’s first memoir, Taking Woodstock (Square One, 2007) was made into an acclaimed 2009 feature film by two-time Oscar winning director Ang Lee. Two years later came Tiber’s Palm Trees on the...

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Book Review: ‘The Book: A Humble Quest Into The Hebrew Scriptures’ by Joseph...

In The Book: A Humble Quest Into The Hebrew Scriptures by Joseph Heskel Koukou, we follow the author’s journey through life and his reflections on reading the Hebrew Scriptures. Born in Iraq in 1924,...

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Interview with Stephen Caputi, Author of ‘I Should Have Stayed in Morocco’

My guest today is businessman and author Stephen Caputi, whose controversial debut memoir, I Should Have Stayed in Morocco, was just released by Twilight Times Books. Caputi is best known for his...

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Book Review ‘Summer’s World’ by Summer McKenzie: The Reality of Incarceration...

This story breaks your heart. Summer’s World by Summer McKenzie is the author’s own story. Her mom died when she was two and her father was sent to prison a few years later. The book explores her...

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The Battle of ‘The Fountainhead’

The following is a chapter from my upcoming memoir ‘Prospero’s Daughter: A Life Beyond Convention.’ The Battle of ‘The Fountainhead’ Ocala National Forest, Florida, Spring 1960   We kids stood around...

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Book Review: ‘Super Nuke’ by Charles Cranston Jett

Super Nuke! by Charles Cranston Jett is the self-described memoir of the author, and the first fast attack submarine designed to go up against the Soviets during the Cold War. Before I get started on...

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Music Review: Moby –‘Music from Porcelain’

Like millions of other people around the world, I first found and fell in love with the music of Moby thanks to his fifth studio album, Play. Fueled by Moby’s having licensed all of the tracks for use...

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