Sound Authors Radio | Interviews of Bestselling Authors & Musicians
The Talk Radio Show Where Bestselling Authors Talk. Hosted by Dr. Kent Gustavson, and featuring three new authors each week, and featuring an interview with an "author of sound" each week - from jazz to popular music. Past guests have included, among hundreds of others, Judy Collins, Nadeem Aslam, George Winston, Amiri Baraka, Del McCoury, Marie Howe, Stefan Sagmeister, Galway Kinnell, Simcha Jacobovici, The Blind Boys of Alabama...
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November 4, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, we'll be joined by author, speaker and visionary Laura Duksta. The first thing most people notice about Laura is her head. At the age of 11, she lost all of her hair to a 'disease' called Alopecia Areata, a condition that affects about 5 million people in America. It's not been an easy journey, though it's one for which she is eternally grateful. After 19 long years of wearing wigs she finally learned the biggest lesson...
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November 3, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, we'll be joined by award-winning poet, Marie Howe. 'Marie Howe's poetry doesn't fool around,' said Margaret Atwood about Howe's first collection, 'The Good Thief,' which received a National Poetry Series award in 1989. Howe's second book, 'What the Living Do,' is largely an elegy to her brother John, who died of AIDS in 1989. In addition to the feelings of loss that many of her poems reveal, hope and an appreciation of ...
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November 2, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, we'll be joined by Darren Littlejohn, author of 'The 12-Step Buddhist.' Darren is a recovering addict and a practitioner of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as a former mental health specialist. He has been a Buddhist practitioner since the mid '80s. A spiritual crisis led to a relapse in 1994 with 10 years of sobriety. After regaining sobriety in 1997, Darren worked on recovery with a new zeal, incorporating many year...
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October 31, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST this Halloween, we'll be joined by special guest, Butch Patrick, also known as Eddie Munster from the hugely popular TV series, 'The Munsters.' Also joining the show will be author Jeffrey Hickey, who is known for his spooky stories for children ('Bats and Bones'), and for his most recent novel, 'Coach's Son.' You'll get to listen in as they discuss what Halloween means to them, and how the Munsters used to celebrate. Fi...
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October 30, 2009 • 90 mins
Joining the show at 3pm EST is musician Clarke Buehling who has led the group, The SkirtLifters for over twenty years. An internationally renowned group of performers celebrated for their outstanding skills and showmanship onstage, The SkirtLifters have authentically recreated the music of the 19th century riverboat, stage and parlor, enlivened by period humor, skits, songs and percussive dance. Clarke is unmatched in his mastery o...
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October 29, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, just a few days before Halloween, you'll hear an interview with author Paul Mullen in which he shares some creepy excerpts from his newest book. Paul received his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology and went on to earn an MBA. While on sabbatical at Indiana University and attending his summer internship for his doctorate’s degree in business management, he received a vision believing God had a more important miss...
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October 28, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST during the week before Halloween, clairvoyant Nikki Cobb speaks with us about the spirits of love, and how she works with people on discovering their own destinies. Nikki is a clairvoyant, life architect, and author of 'Your Divine Heritage.' She has helped thousands of people internationally for over 17 years to awaken the power of their Authentic Blueprint and has been interviewed on numerous media outlets for her clai...
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October 27, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST during the week before Halloween, you'll meet John Stanley who hosted 'Creature Features' in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1979 to 1984. Over the years, he interviewed hundreds of major figures in the sci-fi and horror fields, produced dozens of mini-movies, and hosted well over 200 shows. John's new book is called 'I Was a Television Horror Host' and is chock full of fascinating details about a side to Hollywood that ...
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October 26, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST on the Monday before Halloween, author Marilyn Yalom will join the show to talk about her eerie book, 'The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.' Marilyn grew up in Washington D.C. and was educated at Wellesley College, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has been a professor of French and comparative literature, director of an institute for research on ...
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October 25, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, Emmy award winning composer Jeff Beal will join the show to talk about his musical compositions for both movies and television. He is a member of a new generation of eclectic composers, and is fluent in the diverse languages of jazz, classical, contemporary, electronic and world music. Beal’s compositions can be heard in movie theaters, concert halls, CD recordings and on television. You have likely heard his work in th...
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October 23, 2009 • 90 mins
Joining the show at 3pm EST is author Glenn Bachman. Glenn has more than 30 years of experience in improving the economic and environmental performance of organizations and projects. His book, 'The Green Business Guide' is a comprehensive resource that helps organizations incorporate green practices into their daily operations. Next up at 3:15 is Dr. D.A. Henderson, the author of 'Smallpox: Death of a Disease.' This book is a perso...
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October 22, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, National Book Award-winning author, Joyce Carol Thomas, will join the show to talk about her newest children's book, 'I Have Heard of a Land,' a book inspired by her family's westward journey across America. Joyce has recently been awarded Oklahoma's Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Oklahoma Writer's Hall of Fame. She began publishing in the early 1970s. In 1976, she also began creating dramatic...
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October 21, 2009 • 15 mins
At 3pm EST, Toronto-based musician Dan Goldman will join Sound Authors to talk about his songwriting project, Luxury Pond. In addition to writing and performing his own material, Dan plays regularly with Snowblink and Great Aunt Ida. He has been a member in the Mia Sheard band, Justin Haynes’ John School, Tusks, Maps of the Night Sky, Breaking Sounds, and Kitchenmusik. Dan also created music for modern dance choreographers Jenn Goo...
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October 20, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, spiritualist Gary Gach will join the show to talk about his book, 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism.' Gary was originally introduced to meditation by Paul Reps. Later, he moved to San Francisco, where he has since been based. A student of Hasidic Judaism and Kabbalah under Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, he has been introduced to shikantaza by Dainin Katagiri Roshi. He has been invited to ordain in Thich Nha...
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October 19, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, we'll be joined by Jeffrey Hickey, the author of Coach's Son, which tells the true story of a boy named Mark O'Bern. Jeffrey is an author, composer, performing artist, teacher, coach and father of twins. He and his family live in California, with eight ducks, one parrotlet, one cockatiel, one lop bunny, one gecko lizard, and are often visited by such a varied assortment of critters (human and animal), they call their ho...
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October 18, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, you'll meet Robin and Linda Williams, the dulcet duet. Based in Virginia, Robin and Linda are known for their rich harmonies and original songwriting rooted in the country/bluegrass/gospel tradition. They have gained widespread national prominence on Garrison Keillor's 'A Prairie Home Companion,' as one half of The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, as well as for their talent performing as a duet. Listen in to hear some beautiful...
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October 16, 2009 • 90 mins
Joining the show at 3pm EST is author Thomas Childers, an award-winning Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Childers has authored and edited several books on modern German history and the Second World War. His most recent book, 'Soldier from the War Returning' looks at the greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II. Next up at 3:15 is New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler to...
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October 15, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, children's author Leigh Le Creux will join us to talk about her fun book, 'Astro Socks.' This book is a fictional adventure story for children that will inspire them to develop their own creativity. 'Astro Socks' is a short story about a little boy who sees a problem: his sister continuously loses one sock. This sparks an idea in his head, and he becomes an inventor virtually overnight! The story itself covers a number ...
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October 14, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, you'll meet Marybeth D'Amico. An American singer-songwriter who lives in Germany, Marybeth came to songwriting relatively late in life - she makes up for it with the passion she puts into her music. A journalist by trade, in 2002 Marybeth had lost her job as an editor at a magazine. With some time on her hands, the wife and mother of two, who had recently taken up the guitar, began penning her first songs. In 2008 Maryb...
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October 13, 2009 • 30 mins
At 3pm EST, authors Ashley Marriott and Dr. Marc Paulsen tell you just why you'd be smarter to dump your trainer. Their lively and hilarious book, 'Dump Your Trainer: The Only Thing They'll Reduce Is Your Wallet,' is a simple and fun guide to weight loss and fitness without wasting money on 'yo-yo' diets or personal trainers. The program promotes lifelong fitness through self-reliance, not dependency, and stresses that people must...
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