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The 299th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Adam Leeb, co-founder and CEO of Astrohaus, a company that makes the Freewrite Smart Typewriter – a distraction-free writing device.

You can subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or by searching “Reading and Writing Podcast” in your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community. Use the code RWPODCAST today to get 2 audiobooks for the price of one.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

T. R. Ragan interview

David Ignatius interview

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The 294th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Tiffany Yates Martin, author of the book Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing.

You can subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or by searching “Reading and Writing Podcast” in your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community. Use the code RWPODCAST today to get 2 audiobooks for the price of one.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

T. R. Ragan interview

David Ignatius interview

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The 288th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Brad Schreiber, author of the new book MUSIC IS POWER: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change.

Published by Rutgers University Press, MUSIC IS POWER is a 100 year history of socially conscious music in all genres, and it has been nominated for the 2020 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Recorded Sound Research.

Libro.fm – Great audibooks from your local independent bookstores

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community. Use the code RWPODCAST today to get 2 audiobooks for the price of one.

There are multiple ways to listen to the Reading & Writing podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

T. R. Ragan interview

David Ignatius interview

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The 285th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Marshall Ulrich, author of Both Feet On The Ground: Reflections From the Outside.

Launching today on Amazon Prime Video is the 10-episode World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji which features Marshall Ulrich’s Stray Dogs team of endurance athletes aged 60+ competing in a race for hundreds of miles across brutal terrain.

The ultimate endurance athlete, Ulrich has run more than 130 ultramarathons averaging over 125 miles each, competed in 17 expedition-length adventure races, and climbed the Seven Summits all on his first attempts.

Expand Your Reading

Here’s a great list of African-American mystery writers from the Los Angeles Public Library.

Maurice Broaddus has been published in magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine, Black Static and Weird Tales.

In 2012 Angry Robot published Broaddus’ The Knights of Breton Court trilogy in an omnibus edition.

Broaddus’ steampunk novella Buffalo Soldier was released in 2017 by Tor and was described by the New York Times Book Review as an “exciting” story packed with “alternate American history, fantastic technology and father-son bonding.”

Libro.fm – Great audibooks from your local independent bookstores

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community. Use the code RWPODCAST today to get 2 audiobooks for the price of one.

You can subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or by searching “Reading and Writing Podcast” in your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

T. R. Ragan interview

David Ignatius interview

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The 273rd episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Pamela McCorduck, author of the new non-fiction book This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia.

In the autumn of 1960, twenty-year-old humanities student Pamela McCorduck encountered both the fringe science of early artificial intelligence, and C. P. Snow’s Two Cultures lecture on the chasm between the sciences and the humanities. Each encounter shaped her life. Decades later her lifelong intuition was realized: AI and the humanities are profoundly connected. During that time, she wrote the first modern history of artificial intelligence, Machines Who Think, and spent much time pulling on the sleeves of public intellectuals, trying in futility to suggest that artificial intelligence could be important. Memoir, social history, group biography of the founding fathers of AI, This Could Be Important follows the personal story of one AI spectator, from her early enthusiasms to her mature, more nuanced observations of the field.

Expanding Your Reading
As mentioned in this episode, I’m starting a new segment in the podcast to spotlight an author of color. In the U.S., we’re currently having a long-needed national conversation on systemic racism that still exists for people of color. Consider expanding your reading this year and beyond to include more authors of color.

Here’s a great list of African-American mystery writers from the Los Angeles Public Library.

I interviewed Walter Mosley on Episode 169 of the podcast – click here to listen now.

Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community. Use the code RWPODCAST today to get 3 audiobooks for the price of one.

You can subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or by searching “Reading and Writing Podcast” in your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

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The 245th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Jonathan Drori author of the new non-fiction book AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 TREES.

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Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

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The 231st episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Travis Smith, author of Superhero Ethics: 10 Comic Book Heroes; 10 Ways to Save the World; Which One Do We Need Most Now?

 

 

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Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

John Joseph Adams interview

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The 203rd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Manu Saadia, author of Trekonomics – The Economics of Star Trek.

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This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Ben Zackheim, author of The Camelot Kids: Book One.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

John Joseph Adams interview