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.
SEASON TWO: MY NEXT CHAPTER: Books, writing, and the personal renaissance. Coming Winter 2020
2.1) Freelance journalist Christina Nifong ★ On the gathering of Nourishing Stories
2.2) Roanoke Councilmember Bill Bestpitch ★ “You oughta be reading something.”
2.3) Hoot & Holler’s Lee Hunsaker ★ Profound stories and the support of a community
2.4) Artist Katherine Devine ★Reading & laughter in a creative life
2.5) Contributor Ashley Wilson Fellers ★ Radical revision and the personal renaissance
2.6) Urban gardener Cameron Terry ★ Cultivating community good
2.7) Artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson ★ On building a collective & creating with purpose
2.8) Writer Sandee McGlaun ★ On crafting a nonfiction voice
2.9) The Revivalist’s Mark Ferguson ★ Roanoke in the Appalachian South
2.10) City Builder Liz Long ★
2.11) Fashionista’s Garland Gravely
2.13) Judith Bush ★ Journals
2.13) Book No Further’s Doloris Vest ★
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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STAY TUNED in 2020 for Season 2 – The Next Chapter: Books, writing and the personal renaissance.
