Radio Book Tour recently visited Asheville North Carolina and had a great time taking in the amazing landscapes. - The place is startlingly beautiful --nestled in the forested slopes of the Appalachian mountains--the area is bathed in beauty and seepe...

Radio Book Tour this last month took a swing down south to visit the city of Asheville, North Carolina. Home of the author Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg and the short story writer O'Henry. One of our reasons to take the roadtrip was to meet Denise Kiern...

Debra Dean is the bestselling author of four critically acclaimed books that have been published in twenty-one languages. Her debut,,The Madonnas of Leningrad was a New York Times Editors’ Choice novel, a #1 Booksense Pick, a Booklist Top Ten Novel,

Teresa Bruce's new memoir, The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway is due out June 13th from Seal Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, a Hachette Book Company The book as many readers have said is "unputdownable" --it is a b...

Listen to an exceptional interview by co-host Erika as she talks to Sarah Bird a great American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. Sarah was born in 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father was an officer in the US Air Force,

Our next interview while in Austin was with Mary Helen Specht whose novel Migratory Animals focuses on two locales, Nigeria and Austin. The central story deals with a woman and her family struggling to come to terms with Huntington’s disease but along ...

Oscar Casares is the author of one very well received novel, Amigoland and a book of short stories, Brownsville Stories. Oscar looks and talks every inch an author from Hollywood’s central casting. In our conversation he tells us how he got started as ...

For our fifth episode of the tour we took a trip down to North Carolina to visit with award winning novelist Ben Fountain. Fountain was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and grew up in the tobacco country North Carolina. Fountain earned a B.A.

Radio Book Tour braves the center of winter--Minneapolis St Paul to be exact[ in the bleakest month of January 2018 to visit one of that city's favorite sons, Charles Baxter. Baxter is the author of four notable novels-- Shadow Play (1993).

Radio Book Tour Co-host Jessica Pomerantz talks to Baltimore author Rafael Alvarez about the city he loves. The conversation moves from his latest work, Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown to his life and times growing up in the Balt...