May 2024 Lineup

May 2024 Lineup

Episode 390 – May 7

In this episode, we focus on how to develop a writing practice and tips for making it stick. Our featured guest with extensive experience on this topic is award-winning author Kim Wright, who has worked as a novelist, journalist, teacher, and speaker. She also is known as The Story Doctor, who deeply believes that everyone has an artist within and that living a creative life is its own reward. 

Episode 391 – May 14

In this episode, we feature writer, filmmaker, and activist, Curtis Chin, to talk about his new memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.” It garnered a great deal of positive attention from popular media outlets nationwide, including being named as a 2023 top memoir by Time Magazine, the Washington Post, W. Magazine, Goodreads, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Episode 392 – May 21

In this episode, we focus on writing non-fiction and memoir. Our featured guest with extensive experience in this field is Frye Gaillard, an award-winning author who has written more than thirty books, ranging across the genres of history, memoir, journalism, and historical stories for young readers. In addition to discussing the mechanics of this kind of writing, Frye shares his work, “Live As If… A Teacher’s Love Story,” a remembrance of his late wife, Dr. Nancy Gaillard, who died of leukemia in 2018.

Episode 393 – May 28

In this episode 393, we feature award-winning Charlotte writer Tommy Tomlinson and his latest release, Dogland, which explores not only the passion, glory, and slobber of the Westminster Dog Show, but focuses on existential questions about the relationships between dogs and humans and whether the dogs who compete in dog shows are happy. Tomlinson spent years on the dog show road getting to know the dog handlers, the dogs, and the settings where owners and their dogs compete, and as Tommy does well, he tells interesting dog stories, including about the dog in his own life.