Unbridled Aloud: Episode 18
Episode 18 of Unbridled Aloud features Elisabeth Payne Rosen, author of the near-epic debut novel, Hallam’s War. This work is thoughtful, authentic and carefully researched. From Nashville and Memphis to Richmond, Charleston and Washington D.C., and across the bloody battlefields of Shiloh and Bull Run, Rosen brings vividly to life a heart-rending tale that resonates with deep personal grief shot through with moments of beauty and joy. In the end, there is hope for reconciliation among us all, even in the face of all the struggles that lie ahead. Please click below to listen to or download this podcast!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 17
Episode 17 of Unbridled Aloud features Jack Fuller, author of six prior novels and one book of non-fiction and the new novel, Abbeville. In clean, evocative prose that reveals the complexity of people’s moral and spiritual lives, Fuller tells the simple story of a man riding the crests and chasms of the 20th century, struggling through personal grief, war, and material failure to find a place where the spirit may repose. An American story about rediscovering where we’ve been and how we’ve come to be who we are today, Abbeville tells the tale of the world in small, of one man’s pilgrimage to come to terms with himself while learning to embrace the world around him. Please click below to listen to or download this podcast!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 16
This episode of Unbridled Aloud features Stephen Evans, author of The Marriage of True Minds. Often laugh-out-loud funny, with bright wit and brilliant machine-gun dialogue, The Marriage of True Minds sweetly explores modern love, undying idealism, and one cracked partnership that can’t be sundered—from without or from within. Please click below to listen to or download this podcast!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 15
Tara Yellen, author of the new novel After Hours at the Almost Home, is the featured guest of this episode of Unbridled Aloud. Smart, provocative, and flawlessly on target, Tara Yellen’s revealing debut offers keen insights on a group of people left to put the pieces of their own lives back together in the wake of a friend’s disappearance. After Hours at the Almost Home will put you in an altered state—it’s got kick and goes down like a shot. But its effects might be far more lasting. Please click below to listen to or download this podcast!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 14
This episode of Unbridled Aloud features Marc Estrin, author of four novels including the new novel The Lamentations of Julius Marantz. The voice of these Lamentations is a sixty-something, club-footed scientist named Julius Marantz, an obsessive researcher who suffers both from forbidden knowledge and an insistent conscience. Partly a portrait of cynical politics and religious fervor, part scientific speculation and even a meditation on the glories of Coney Island, The Lamentations of Julius Marantz traces the rise and fall of science in a truly personal story that finally fairly ascends. Please click below to listen to or download this podcast!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 13
Episode 13 of Unbridled Aloud features Michael Pritchett, author of The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis. This novel is both a November 2007 BookSense Pick and a Midwest Connections Pick! So what is it about? While writing a biography of his famous namesake, Bill Lewis, a high-school history teacher, nearly loses himself in his attempts to understand one of the great untold stories in American history—the adventures and subsequent suicide of Meriwether Lewis. This is a rich, confident debut novel. Please click below to listen to or download this podcast!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 12
This episode of Unbridled Aloud features Margaret Cezair-Thompson. She is the author of the sleeper hit and #1 October 2007 BookSense Pick, The Pirate’s Daughter. This novel was inspired by Errol Flynn’s accidental arrival in Jamaica in 1946. Spanning two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the matinee idol’s, this lively novel tells the story of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, forbidden passions, betrayal and atonement in a paradisal, tropical setting. Please click below to listen or download!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 11
Pamela Thompson is featured in this episode of Unbridled Aloud. She is the author of the new novel, Every Past Thing. This novel is an intimate and moving family portrait—and its every brushstroke is marked with longing. Derived from the lives of real people, this beautiful novel is a whirlwind of history, art, familial tremors, and personal desire. Please click below to listen or download!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 10
M. Allen Cunningham, author of The Green Age of Asher Witherow and now Lost Son, is interviewed by Kay Callison in this episode of Unbridled Aloud.
Lost Son is a novel that explores the life of poet Rainier Maria Rilke. It brings a brooding atmosphere and human complexity to an intimate and imaginative portrait of one of the most uniquely sensitive artists of his time. Please click below to listen or download!
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Unbridled Aloud: Episode 9
This episode of Unbridled Aloud features Timothy Schaffert, author of The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God and a new novel, Devils in the Sugar Shop. In this novel, a failed erotic novelist, a hostess of prim sex-toy parties, an artist, and a bookshop owner pursued by a demented if harmless stalker try to hold their relationships and lives together as they face damaged and broken marriages and mid-life crises during one whirlwind day that may only be saved by their own children, a timely fire, and a return to their senses. And, yes, it is a May 2007 Book Sense Pick! Please click below to listen or download!
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