Symbolism in Literary Fiction with Journalist Turned Novelist Bob Deans

In this episode, host Landis Wade and co-host Janet Wade have a conversation about the richness and value of symbolism in novels with author Bob Deans, author of “The Bicycle Man.”

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Bob Deans started out in the news business when he was ten years old, delivering his hometown paper, the “Richmond Times-Dispatch.” He spent three decades as a reporter for “The Post & Courier” of Charleston, S.C., and “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,” including four years as Chief Asia Correspondent, based in Tokyo, and eight years covering the White House.

He’s a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and author of the nonfiction book, “The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James.”

His debut novel is “The Bicycle Man,” a book that allows the reader to experience the emotional and turbulent headlines of 1968 as seen through the eyes of a young paperboy.