Podcasts about kentucky book fair

Kruser talks to Sara Woods, festival director for Kentucky Humanities, about the 2021 Kentucky Book Fair. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Donna Sturgeon joins Kruser for more Car Talk, and festival director for Kentucky Humanities Sara Woods talks to Kruser about the 2021 Kentucky Book Fair.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shawn Pryor is the creator and co-writer of the all-ages graphic novel mystery series CASH & CARRIE, writer of KENTUCKY KAIJU, and has written for Tor.com. He is one of the co-founders of Action Lab Entertainment and currently serves as their President of Creative Relations. Shawn will be joined by more than 200 authors at the Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, November 16th at the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park. Join us from 9 a.m.-4p.m. Admission & parking are free.

Fox 56 News Anchor Marvin Bartlett is our guest on this week's episode of THINK HUMANITIES. Bartlett's book, The Boy Who Delivered Joy, tells the true story of Jarrett Mynear and the creation of Jarrett's Joy Cart. Marvin Bartlett will be at the Kentucky Book Festival Kickoff on Sunday, November 10th and at the Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, November 16th.

Listen to the full length program Listen by segment: One: Despite claims to the contrary, per-pupil K-12 education funding in Kentucky is approaching a low not seen since before the legislature enacted the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1990. Tom Martin discusses it with Ashley Spalding, Senior Analyst, Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.  LISTEN Two: Learn from Derek Feldman of Kentucky Refugee Ministries of the experiences of refugees who resettle in Lexington. Hear about anthropologist Zada Komara's unusual approach to documenting Eastern Kentucky history. LISTEN Three:  60-Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, coming to Lexington for the Kentucky Book Fair, discusses his memoir and why journalism and truth matter.LISTEN Interviews in order of appearance: Ashley Spalding Derek Feldman Zada Komara Scott Pelley   Contact: Tom Martin at es@eku.edu or leave voicemail at 859-622-9358  People like you value experienced, knowledgeable and award-winning journalism that covers meaningful stories in Central and Eastern Kentucky. To support more stories and interviews like those featured in this edition of Eastern Standard, please consider making a contribution.

Listen to the full length program Listen by segment: One: Despite claims to the contrary, per-pupil K-12 education funding in Kentucky is approaching a low not seen since before the legislature enacted the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1990. Tom Martin discusses it with Ashley Spalding, Senior Analyst, Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.  LISTEN Two: Learn from Derek Feldman of Kentucky Refugee Ministries of the experiences of refugees who resettle in Lexington. Hear about anthropologist Zada Komara's unusual approach to documenting Eastern Kentucky history. LISTEN Three:  60-Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, coming to Lexington for the Kentucky Book Fair, discusses his memoir and why journalism and truth matter.LISTEN Interviews in order of appearance: Ashley Spalding Derek Feldman Zada Komara Scott Pelley   Contact: Tom Martin at es@eku.edu or leave voicemail at 859-622-9358  People like you value experienced, knowledgeable and award-winning journalism that covers meaningful stories in Central and Eastern Kentucky. To support more stories and interviews like those featured in this edition of Eastern Standard, please consider making a contribution.

Now in its 38th year, the Kentucky Book Fair is among the longest running events of its kind in the nation. Find out how it all began as host Bill Goodman visits with members of the volunteer committee responsible for the fair in its early days.

Professor Joshua Douglas is our guest on this week's episode of THINK HUMANITIES. Professor Douglas teaches and researches election law and voting rights, civil procedure, constitutional law, and judicial decision making at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He is the author of Vote for US: How to Take Back our Elections and Change the Future of Voting, a book that provides hope and inspiration for a positive path forward on voting rights. Come see Professor Douglass at the 38th annual Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, November 16th at the Kentucky Horse Park's Alltech Arena.

New York Times bestselling author Casey Cep joins us for this week's episode of THINK HUMANITIES to discuss her first book, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. You can hear more from Casey Cep and pick up a copy of Furious Hours at the Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, November 16th at the Kentucky Horse Park's Alltech Arena.

Foster Ockerman, Jr. is our guest on this week's episode of THINK HUMANITIES. Ockerman is the President & Chief Historian of the Lexington History Museum and a new member of the Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau. Ockerman will be at the Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, November 16th at the Kentucky Horse Park's Alltech Arena with his new book, Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky.

On today’s episode of THINK HUMANITIES, we are taking it back to the 2018 Kentucky Book Fair. Our special guests include celebrated Kentucky author, Wendell Berry; Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at UK, Dr. Morris Grubbs; and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Jon Parrish Peede. Morris Grubbs moderates a thoughtful and timely conversation between Wendell Berry and Jon Peede regarding life, literature, the humanities, farming, and the shifting cultural landscapes of today.

In the last episode of our Kentucky Book Festival edition of THINK HUMANITIES, Bill Goodman is joined by Kentucky Humanities' own Brooke Raby and Julie Klier. Brooke and Julie provide an exclusive inside scoop into the numerous literary events that took place as part of the 1st annual Kentucky Book Festival, culminating in the 37th annual Kentucky Book Fair.

In this week's Kentucky Book Festival edition of Think Humanities, Host Bill Goodman is joined by special guest Dr. Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Chairman Peede discusses literature that has influenced him throughout his life, including works by Kentucky natives Robert Penn Warren and Wendell Berry. Chairman Peede will be in attendance at the Kentucky Book Fair on Nov. 17th at noon in conversation with celebrated Kentucky poet, author, and essayist, Wendell Berry.

Kentucky Book Fair Manager Brooke Raby and Carnegie Center Executive Director Neil Chethik join host Bill Goodman in this episode of THINK HUMANITIES to discuss Holly Goddard Jones’ new book The Salt Line. Holly Goddard Jones will be one of more than 180 authors at the Kentucky Book Fair, Saturday, November 18th.

Author, actress, producer, and playwright Erin Chandler joins host Bill Goodman in this episode of THINK HUMANITIES. Chandler discusses her memoir, June Bug Versus Hurricane, a candid account of her life-long difficulties with her father, her challenges with her charming but self-destructive brother, and her own relentless demons. Chandler is one of the more than 180 authors that will be at the 2017 Kentucky Book Fair, Saturday, November 18th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Alltech Arena in Lexington.

Host Bill Goodman is joined by Robert Lawson, faculty member of the University of Kentucky College of Law since 1966, with two periods of service as Dean. Lawson discusses one of Kentucky’s most famous cold cases. On October 26, 1961, 19-year-old Transylvania student Betty Gail Brown left a study session, getting in her car around midnight. Three hours later, she was found dead, strangled with her own bra. Her murder remains unsolved. Lawson will be at the Kentucky Book Fair on November 18th with his new book, Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery.

Host Bill Goodman is joined by Julia Johnson, a professor of English and instructor in the University of Kentucky’s MFA program. In addition to three earlier collections of poetry, she is the editor of The New and Collected Poems of Jane Gentry, available now. Johnson will be at the Kentucky Book Fair on November 18th.

Kentucky Book Fair authors George Ella Lyon and Shawn Pryor join host Bill Goodman to talk about reading and writing in the Commonwealth, the Kentucky Book Fair, and their work with young readers and writers.

Author Jamie Ford and Kentucky Book Fair Manager Brooke Raby join host Bill Goodman to discuss Ford’s newest novel, Love and Other Consolation Prizes and the 2017 Kentucky Book Fair. Ford will be the featured speaker for the Kentucky Book Fair’s Literary Luncheon on Saturday, November 18th. Tickets for the Literary Luncheon can be purchased at kyhumanities.org.

Mack McCormick from the University Press of Kentucky joins host Bill Goodman. They discuss the history of the University Press of Kentucky, the publishing process, the Kentucky Book Fair, and new UPK books coming out soon.

Ian Stansel's fantastic first novel THE LAST COWBOYS OF SAN GERONIMO plays with the genre expectations of Westerns by setting the murder-revenge in northern California wine country. James and Ian discuss storytelling economy, bringing dead characters to life, horse-y literature, and conclude, "There are a lot of books." Then editor Naomi Gibbs and James discuss her career path working on 'orphaned' novels like Ian's.     - Ian and James discuss: SHOTGUN LOVESONGS by Nickolas Butler  Farrar, Straus & Giroux  Graywolf  Roxane Gay  Sherman Alexie  Cormac McCarthy  THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick DeWitt  NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles  Louis L'Amour  Larry McMurtry  The Kentucky Book Fair  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  BLACK BEAUTY by Anna Sewell  THE MARE by Mary Gaitskill  Dick Francis  THE WAKE OF FORGIVENESS by Bruce Machart  THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (remake) dir by Antoine Fuqua  NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy  NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (film) dir by the Coen Bros  THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald  Bob Dylan  Daniel Woodrell  HELL OR HIGH WATER dir by David Mackenzie  - Naomi and James discuss: Whitman College  Counterpoint Press  Columbia Publishing Course  Bloomsbury Publishing Gary Snyder  Jack Shoemaker  Politics & Prose  Craig Johnson  Cormac McCarthy  Larry McMurtry  Edward Abbey -  http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

This week on StoryWeb: Kathleen Kent’s novel The Heretic’s Daughter. Those who know me or know my work understand that I am compelled by family histories. I especially love it when contemporary writers delve into their family pasts to unearth secret stories and bring those hidden stories to life for modern readers. Think Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior – one of my key inspirations when I wrote Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative. I am always on the lookout for similar projects. Imagine my delight, then, when I met author Kathleen Kent. We’d both just flown into Lexington, Kentucky, and had been picked up by the executive director of the Kentucky Book Fair, being held in nearby Frankfort, the state capital. Kathleen and I struck up what became a very animated conversation as we discovered that we were both promoting books relating to our families’ histories. My book is about a decidedly obscure family – a poor, rural, hardscrabble family of Cherokee descent. My goal in writing Power in the Blood was to shine a light on the invisible past, to give voice to the voiceless. But Kathleen’s family was famous – or perhaps, in some circles, infamous. For Kathleen is a tenth-generation direct descendant of Martha Carrier, arguably the most well-known of the people hung in 1692 in the village of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Carrier – like 19 other women and men – was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed as a result. She was hanged on August 19, 1692, the same day John Proctor was hung. Proctor became the inspiration for Arthur Miller’s 1953 play, The Crucible. (Stay tuned: next week I’ll discuss John Proctor and The Crucible.) Long intrigued by this family legacy, Kathleen set out to write Martha’s tale and to show the impact of this heinous period in American history on the Carrier family. So far, so good. I had met a writer whose work was simpatico with my own. But would the resulting novel – The Heretic’s Daughter – be any good? I am happy to answer with a resounding and unequivocal “YES!” In The Heretic’s Daughter, her debut novel, Kathleen Kent reveals herself as a first-rate storyteller. She breathes life into the historical figure of Martha Carrier and the entire Carrier family, including her daughter Sarah from whose vantage point the story is told. Kathleen makes us care deeply about this Puritan family and the woman who was so wronged by the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s “justice” system. Kathleen explains that she was raised hearing the story of her courageous ancestor: I was told about the 19 men and women hanged, who went to their deaths rather than confess and live. And about how my great-grandmother, back nine generations, not only professed her innocence, but harshly admonished her judges not to listen to “these girls who are out of their wits.” It was my mother who first told me that Cotton Mather, one of the greatest theologians of his days, named Martha Carrier “The Queen of Hell,” not for her evil character, but because of her bold and assertive manner. . . . As my grandmother was fond of saying, with not a little pride, “Martha was not a witch. Merely a ferocious woman!” To learn more about the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, visit the University of Virginia’s comprehensive Documentary Archive and Transcription Project. The website tells us that at least twenty-five people died as a result of the trials: nineteen were executed by hanging, one was tortured to death by being “pressed” with large stones, and at least five died in jail due to harsh conditions. In all, “over 160 people were accused of witchcraft, most were jailed, and many deprived of property and legal rights.” Those accused lived in the town of Salem, in Salem Village (now Danvers), and in Andover, where Martha Carrier and her family lived. Kathleen’s website also provides a good (and brief) overview of the Salem Witch Trials. You can learn more about Kathleen Kent and her first novel, The Heretic’s Daughter, at the book’s official website. You can explore the Carrier family tree and learn about the Carrier family reunion Kathleen helped to organize in 2010. You can also listen to an audio interview with Kathleen, in which she explains the research she conducted as she wrote the novel, including spending time in Salem and surrounding areas. A New York Times book review of The Heretic’s Daughter provides a good introduction to the novel, as does the review in The Guardian, which calls the book “an exceptionally accomplished debut novel.” Best of all, you can read the first chapter online for free and listen to an audio excerpt from the novel. And if you fall in love with The Heretic’s Daughter (as I know you will!), you can read more of Kathleen’s work. Of special note is another historical novel, The Traitor’s Wife, a prequel to The Heretic’s Daughter. It tells the story of Thomas and Martha Carrier in the years before the Salem Witch Trials. Kathleen has written two additional novels: The Outcasts and The Dime. Visit thestoryweb.com/kent for links to all these resources and to watch as Kathleen Kent reads a short excerpt from The Heretic’s Daughter and talks about the family legacy of her ninth great-grandmother, Martha Carrier. Join me next week when I’ll continue my exploration of the Salem Witch Trials with a look at Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible.