Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim talks about his 6-overtime game against UConn and Coach Calhoun, the pros and cons of zone defense, Big East vs. ACC, and what he thinks of casting Tom Cruise to play Jack Reacher, among other things.

Jim Boeheim, Syracuse basketball Coach

Audiobook producer Caitlin Garing speaks to experienced narrator Katherine Kellgren about how she gives voice to a gargoyle, why she imitates Dame Edith Evans, and what she thinks of Neil Gaiman as a narrator. 

Audiobook Narrator Katherine Kellgren

On today's BookD live Patricia Cornwell talks to an audience about the journey of her protagonist Kay Scarpetta and how writing the same character for 22 books demands new ideas, thinking on your feet and knowing what technological advancements are carried out when it comes to the subject of forensics.
She was the first woman to carve a niche for others to follow. The forensic thriller novel is now an area saturated by many authors but Patricia is the leader and establishment of it.

BookD Live Event - with leader of the pack Patricia Cornwell

THIS WEEK: NY Times Bestselling author Richard Kadrey sits down with HarperAudio producer, Caitlin Garing, to talk about his new book GETAWAY GOD. Dark urban fantasy character, Sandman Slim, is back to save the world from the vengeful gods in this sixth installment of the bestselling series.  In this episode, Kadrey speaks on anthropological forensics, what his writing teacher taught him, and the two sentences that started the popular series. 

Richard Kadrey

THIS WEEK: Jennifer Robson is the USA Today and #1 Toronto Globe & Mail bestselling author of SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. Her second book, AFTER THE WAR IS OVER, is a tale of class, love, and freedom-in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed. Hear her discuss how her family influenced her work, the role research plays in her writing and which books she regularly re-reads.

Jennifer Robson

This holiday season celebrate the joy of poetry with former poet laureate Billy Collins as he introduces the historic Caedmon recording of poet Dylan Thomas reading A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES (in its entirety) recorded in February of 1952. 

A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES read by Dylan Thomas, introduced by Billy Collins

Allen Kurzweil discusses how he came to write WHIPPING BOY, a childhood memoir and literary thriller that chronicles Kurzweil's forty-year-search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus, who went on to lead a mad-cap life of international crime and financial fraud.

Allen Kurzweil

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