Catch voices from BOOK CITY ★ Roanoke wherever you listen to podcasts, or click on the episode below. Expect about half an hour of great conversation on our City Builders: local people using books and literary talent to live better lives and improve our corner of the world.
Expect about half an hour of great conversation on our City Builders: local people using books and literary talent to live better lives and improve our corner of the world.
SEASON THREE: ALONE / TOGETHER: What pulls us into community and stands us apart
3.1) Larry Palmer ★ Scholarship Boy
3.2) Brad Stephens ★ The Power of Disruption
3.3) Thomas Fellers ★ Building Community Through Social Infrastructure
3.4) Eleanor Levine ★ Kissing a Tree Surgeon
3.5) Mythic Delerium’s ★ Mike Allen is trying to scare us
3.6) Rachelle Kuehl ★ Reading and Writing Rural
SEASON TWO: MY NEXT CHAPTER: Books, writing, and the personal renaissance.
2.1) Christina Nifong ★ On the gathering of Nourishing Stories
2.2) Bill Bestpitch ★ “You oughta be reading something.”
2.3) Lee Hunsaker ★ Profound stories and the support of a community
2.4) Katherine Devine ★Reading & laughter in a creative life
2.5) Ashley Wilson Fellers ★ Radical revision and the personal renaissance
2.6) Cameron Terry ★ Cultivating community good
2.7) Napoleon Jones-Henderson ★ On building a collective & creating with purpose
2.8) Sandee McGlaun ★ On crafting a nonfiction voice
2.9) Mark Ferguson ★ Roanoke in the Appalachian South
2.10) Doloris Vest ★ Behind the scenes at Roanoke’s Indy Bookstore
2.11) Kris Spisak ★ Empowerment in the writing process
SEASON ONE: IDENTITY AND ACTION: How we engage with the written word to better understand ourselves and act in the world around us.
1.1) Heath Hardage Lee ★ Women in Action: Learning from hidden histories
1.2) Ben Bazak and Gail Steele ★ On The Second Mountain
1.3) Soul Sessions’ Bryan Hancock ★ Sharing the Human Experience
1.4) Marissa Mazek Blankinship ★ I might as well be hugging a book
1.5) Cathryn Hankla ★ On Roaming with the Self and Books through Lost Places
1.6) Shari Henry ★ Technology and empathy in the library’s welcoming space
1.7) Gregory Samantha Rosenthal ★ Lesbian cat fiction and a collected past at the Roanoke Memorial LGBT Library
1.8) Ashley Rhame ★ Uncovering ourselves through poetry
1.9) Vice Mayor Joe Cobb ★ Creating the space for ourselves and others
1.10) Jeanne Larsen ★ On writing and the word constructs we are
1.11) Brad Stephens ★ Writing and reading as an act of rebellion
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