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We welcomed back Mike Chen to chat about Sci-Fi Space Operas and family trauma in LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME Mike’s book which tackles both. We also got to chat about Anakin and Obi-Wan in BROTHERHOOD, Mike’s newest novel set within the Star Wars Universe.
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Danica Roem made national headlines when–as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer–she unseated Virginia’s most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. Danica stopped by Turn the Page to talk about her trail blazing career, and a top 10 list of Metal bands from the 2002 era!
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Jenn sat down with Maya Rodale, author of THE MAD GIRLS OF NEW YORK, a lively and entertaining fictionalized account of the career of Nelly Bly. Bly, as an undercover reporter, spent ten days committed to Blackwell’s, a notoriously cruel and oppressive asylum, to expose the truth to the public.
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A WOMAN OF ENDURANCE is a powerful, moving novel, full of hope and despair and everything in between. Jenn sat down with its author, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, to talk about this vivid and affecting portrait of the life of an enslaved woman, Pola, on a 19th-century Puerto Rican plantation.
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Hilde Lysiak made the news when, at age 9, she broke a murder story in her hometown of Selinsgrove, PA. Since then, she has written books, had a TV show based on her life, and met luminaries like Malala Yousafzai and Michelle Obama. Check out her book, HILDE ON THE RECORD, at a library or bookstore near you!
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Jenn sat down with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly to talk about their screen- and comics-writing careers, and to get the scoop on their new books, BATMAN BEYOND: NEO-YEAR and CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY. They also recently wrote a mini-series about Kang, who has just been introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
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Imagine a world in which McCarthyism was so successful, Joseph McCarthy became president. This is the world that Josh Weiss explores in his alternate history, BEAT THE DEVILS. Jenn and Josh discussed Humphrey Bogart, the films of John Huston, and the Jewish experience in midcentury America.
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No joke! We chatted with Wil Wheaton about STILL JUST A GEEK, his updated memoir that allowed Wil to have “conversations” with his former self and express growth. But, we also talked about TRON, the origins of TABLE TOP, and Wil’s own love of libraries and librarians. We could not be more flattered!
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Jenn sat down with Jayne Cowie, author of the thrilling novel CURFEW, about a world in which men are tagged, tracked, and forbidden from leaving their homes between 7PM and 7AM. They walked about feminism, intergenerational conflict, and constructing alternate realities.
