Podcasts about magic city books

This week we welcome, Jeff Martin, Director of Communications at Philbrook Museum and President of Magic City Books. Jeff, a seasoned podcaster himself and a key player in Tulsa's cultural scene, brings an abundance of insights on blending traditional marketing with innovative storytelling. His dual role at Philbrook and Magic City Books, coupled with his wife's ownership of the locally beloved Antoinette's Bakery, makes Jeff a fountain of knowledge on engaging local and broader audiences.This episode is not just a conversation; it's an exploration of how cultural institutions can leverage their narrative to captivate and engage. Jeff shares his journey through the evolving landscape of communications, emphasizing the pivotal role of social media in transforming Philbrook into a vibrant cultural hub. The highlight? A walkthrough of Philbrook's largest fundraiser, the Philbrook Wine Experience, which has grown from a modest gathering in 1992 to a landmark event raising over $3 million. This biennial spectacle not only showcases the museum's impact on Tulsa's community but also sets a benchmark for event marketing in the B2B space.Dive into this episode to discover the secret behind Jeff's "Fun Menu" (and what that is!) as well as how his team is combining tradition with innovation as they take a nearly 100 year old museum into the future.Brenda, Brandon, Claudia, Jeff, Roop & SamTell us what you think!

Join Erin & Ben as they recap a wild and crazy HowlerCon weekend with their Atomic Pylon Media and real life friend, Krossland Shaw of the Words & Whiskey Podcast. Special thanks to all the wonderful Howlers, Joel and Christine of Lit Escalates, Magic City Books, Cabin Boys Brewery, Me Like Bees, Tulsa, Pierce Brown … Continue reading 93 – HowlerCon Recap w/ Krossland Shaw →

Fathers play a pivotal role in the lives of their children. So, in honor of Father's Day, we want to recognize a father who is spreading a little magic in the lives of his children and also around the Tulsa area! Pat Cawiezell is the Buyer & Author Events Coordinator for Magic City Books. He and his wife, Jillian, have two young boys. So, as you can imagine, his home life is full and his day job is, too! During this visit, you'll get to know Pat, his love for family and why the Tulsa transplant enjoys this city so much!

Today I welcome actor, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist Tim Blake Nelson to the show. Tim is one of the great character actors of our time. Like a lot of people, I first became aware of him in the Coen Bros film O Brother Where Art Thou. Tim's novel is called City of Blows and it just came out on Unnamed Press. It didn't click with me that Tim was actually the writer of this incredible book until I saw his picture on the promo materials. When I read the synopsis, I knew it was my kind of book. "A sprawling, character-driven depiction of the modern film industry.” (Source: Unnamed Press) City of Blows is beautifully written and the character development is incredible. It was an honor to talk with Tim about the book and his process for creating. Thanks for listening! Kyler --- You can purchase signed copies at The Unnamed Press Book Events: 2/7/23 Book Soup, Los Angeles 2/8/23 Magic City Books, Tulsa 2/10/23 Strand Book Store, NYC

American humorist, self-proclaimed “mirth maker,” writer, reporter, and bagel aficionado, Barry Friedman, blessed the OKPOP Radio Hour with his presence recently. We laughed; we cried; we laughed at jokes we probably shouldn't have then cried again, but THAT is the magic or Barry—you buy the ticket and what a dang ride! His new book, Jack Sh*t, is a love letter to his charmingly idiosyncratic father, who recently passed away. He'll be at Magic City Books for an in person event celebrating his new book, Thursday. February 2 at 7:00pm in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books. Links to Barry's other writings and musings at barrysfriedman.substack.com or www.friedmanoftheplains.com.

Reader, writer, critic, and enthusiast Jeff Martin joins the editors from Tulsa to talk about Magic City Books, Book Smart Tulsa, and why reading is both fun and fundamental. Plus, we put a marker in some favorite tomes in our Question of the Week and get you ready for a week of fun in Podvents. We hope you listen!

Cross will appear at a Meet The Author event at Magic City Books on Sunday the 3rd, beginning at 2pm.

The author of a book detailing the tumultuous 2020 election and its aftermath is coming to Oklahoma. “This Will Not Pass” focuses on the heated race between then-President Trump and now-President Biden culminating in the January Sixth riot at the US Capitol. KOSU's Michael Cross got a chance to talk with Jonathan Martin. He is speaking about “This Will Not Pass” at Oklahoma City's Full Circle Bookstore on May 24th including a discussion moderated by OKC Mayor David Holt. Martin is also attending a discussion in Tulsa on May 26th hosted by Magic City Books.

This is a very unique chapter!   It is a double chapter, in a way.   To begin with I was so lucky to interview Susan Cain at our very first live chapter of 3 Books at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. So many 3 Bookers came out and celebrated on a snowy night just before the pandemic began. (We had no idea!) At the time Susan was deep in the throes of writing her new book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole but as we discuss a lot of her work in process we didn't want to scoop the book so held onto this conversation until it was ready for the world.   Well, it's ready for the world! Bittersweet just came out and debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list! How did we celebrate? By having another conversation, of course! Susan and I partnered with the wonderful indie bookstore Magic City Books of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and just conducted a live book tour stop together.   So Chapter 102 of 3 Books is a double interview! Our first ever. It's a before and after. Two live conversations with you hanging out between us pre- and (can we say post yet?) post-pandemic.   Listen to Susan and I discuss: bathing ourselves in beauty, the power of reading, exploring identity, honoring our children, the tension between family and art, the benefits of envy, the nature of sorrow and longing, and, of course, the brilliant Susan Cain's 3 most formative books.   Let's flip the page into Chapter 102 now…   What You'll Learn: How do make reading a family activity? How can we manage FOMO? How do books allow you to explore your identity? How should we think about gender norms? How do we go about letting our children feel honored? Can family and love coexist with art? Why should a question be at the center of all writing projects?  How are personality profiles helpful? How can envy be a useful emotion? What is longing? How can we use our longing? Where can we find beauty and why should we immerse ourselves in it?   You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://www.3books.co/chapters/102     Leave us a voicemail. Your message may be included in a future chapter: 1-833-READ-A-LOT.     Sign up to receive podcast updates here: https://www.3books.co/email-list    3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Angie Thomas, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Roxane Gay, David Mitchell, Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Judy Blume and Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single new moon and every single full moon all the way up to 5:21 am on September 1, 2031. 3 Books is an Apple "Best Of" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, etc. For more info check out: https://www.3books.co

Our guest is Anita Hill, the University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. Following her historic testimony at the 1991 Senate confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Hill became a leading national figure in the fight for women's rights and against gender-based violence. She joins us to talk about her new book, "Believing." As was noted of this work in a starred review in Library Journal: "Hill's new book defies boundaries by bringing together elements of memoir with law, social analysis, and polemic.... [It's] delivered with the precision of a powerful lawyer and the vulnerability of someone who became a target of merciless media scrutiny after testifying to being sexually harassed by now–Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.... With searing insight, Hill shows how much and how little things have changed since 1991. Her book gives hope, inspires activism, and discourages complacency." (Please note that Prof. Hill will take part in a "vitural event" tonight, the 7th, at 7pm, to be presented exclusively by Magic City Books. For this event, which requires tickets, Prof. Hill will be in conversation with Gloria Steinem. More details are posted here.)

Chris and Jesse are joined by Anneliese Bruner. Anneliese is the great granddaughter of Mary E. Jones Parrish, a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Bruner's great grandmother wrote an account of what she and others experienced during this devastating time in Tulsa, and her writings have been passed down through generations, and into Bruner's hands. In our conversation, Bruner discussed her level of shock when she was given the book by her father, and she discusses her first experience in Tulsa during the centennial commemoration of Tulsa Race Massacre. We also discuss the importance of primary document historical research, and how the severity of the massacre has been white washed over the years.  The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E. Jones Parrish is available at https://bookshop.org/books/the-nation-must-awake-my-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921/9781595349439 (https://bookshop.org/books/the-nation-must-awake-my-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921/9781595349439) or locally at Fulton Street Books or Magic City Books. We also want to recognize Tallgrass Estate Planning LLP, as they are the newest corporate partners with Rant9 Productions. We look forward to continuing our podcast network with their support, and we appreciate their efforts in creating a unique and necessary community service in estate planning today. Learn more about Tallgrass Estate Planning LLP, check out http://www.tallgrassestateplanning.com/ (www.tallgrassestateplanning.com) or check out their Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/tallgrassestateplanning (www.facebook.com/tallgrassestateplanning). Please subscribe to Pod4Good wherever you get your podcasts! If you're not sure where, check out http://www.pod4good.com/ (www.Pod4Good.com)

Our guest is the novelist Jonathan Lee, whose new book is a vivid, page-turning work of historical fiction titled "The Great Mistake." It's a novel set in 19th-century New York City that digs deeply and engagingly into the life and times of -- and the mysterious murder of -- a man named Andrew Haswell Green. Not well-remembered today but very famous in his time, Green (who was called "The Father of Greater New York") was a lawyer and city planner whose visionary deal-making led to establishment of Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bronx Zoo, and the New York Public Library. But why was Green killed in the street in 1903, just outside his Park Avenue residence? Such is the core question of "The Great Mistake." Lee will be doing a "virtual event" for this novel on Thursday the 17th at 7pm. This free event is being presented on Zoom by Magic City Books; more information (including how to register) is posted here .

Show Notes and Links to Scott Ellsworth's Work and Allusions/Texts from Episode 55   On Episode 55, Pete talks with Scott Ellsworth about the writing life, his interests and inspirations, and the incredible events and personalities that surround the famous “Secret Game” between the players of North Carolina College for Negroes and the white players of Duke University's Medical School. Scott's book on the subject is The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph. The two also discuss the research and events surrounding the Tulsa Race Massacre and Scott's highly-acclaimed book, set to come out on May 18, The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice. Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game, winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is also the author of The World Beneath Their Feet and Death in a Promised Land, his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. Scott lives in Ann Arbor, where he teaches in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. "Scott Ellsworth's absolutely riveting book does more than chronicle the Tulsa Race massacre of 1921 and its literal exhumation. With a stunning combination of objectivity and empathy, it demonstrates how even in polarized times we can come together in pursuit of truth. Though concerned with past events, it explores every stratum of the American city now—from City Hall, to dive bars, to homeless encampments, to the living rooms of the wealthy and the poor, regardless of color or creed. Anyone interested in America's future should read it as a template for the reconciliation that lies ahead." —Tim Blake Nelson, actor, Watchmen and Just Mercy, and Tulsa native on The Ground Breaking: an American City and its Search for Justice   Buy The Ground Breaking: an American City and its Search for Justice (Out May 18)   Buy The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph   Book Review for The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph   “JIM CROW LOSES; The Secret Game” Published in New York Times Magazine - March 31, 1996-by Scott Ellsworth   “On MLK Day, recalling The Secret Game"-by Mark Adams, January 17. 2011, on Espn.com At about 3:10, Scott talks about the lead up to the upcoming release of The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice on May 18 of this year   At about 4:30, Scott talks about his early days of writing and reading   At about 8:00, Scott talks about the texts and writers that have been given him “chills at will,” including A River Runs Through It, Their Eyes Were Watching God, among others, in line with his belief all literature is    At about 10:45, Scott relates an amusing anecdote about the great writer Zora Neale Hurston that is recounted in his book Secret Game, and Pete and Scott discuss Hurston's interesting life and important work (including "How it Feels to be Colored Me")    At about 13:00, discussion about Aubrey from The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph leads to an overview of the historical events leading up to and including those of the book   At about 16:25, Scott talks about some of the important characters from the book, including Jack Burgess and his rude awakening to the ugly world of Jim Crow, and Dave Hubbell   At about 20:00, Scott talks about his thought process in using some of the obsolete and often-fraught racial terminology of the book's time period   At about 21:55, Scott talks about Henry “Big Dog” Thomas, a memorable member of the North Carolina College for Negroes, and the moving late scene in the book where Big Dog asserts his pride and his independence   At about 24:00. Scott talks about how his research for the book and outside of the book, reminds him that there were so many “baby steps” in the civil rights movement, and how he hopes that he has honored them and shined a light on them   At about 25:00, Scott talks about some of the events that involved people from the book, like Aubrey Stanly and Pee Wee-events many years after “The Secret Game”   At about 27:25, Pete and Scott discuss the outsized impact of the legendary coach of  North Carolina College for Negroes, John McLendon   At about 28:45, Scott discusses how he framed the narratives of Phog Allen and James Naismith and the research that connected them to John McLendon and “The Secret Game”; this also leads Scott to discuss the genesis of the book itself   At about 34:40, Scott ticks off the impressive list of firsts achieved by Coach John McLendon   At about 36:00, Pete and Scott talk about Scott's incredible ability to connect seemingly disparate historical events in his writing   At about 36:35, Scott talks about the details of the famous “Secret Game” that the book chronicles   At about 40:30, Scott talks about the research done for the book, and how he was able to provide such a detail, including tracing a journey from the book by taking the bus himself   At about 42:30, Pete and Scott talk about the ways in which Jackie Robinson and other early “racial trailblazers”/HBCU athletes were often asked to “rise above” vitriolic and dehumanizing racism   At about 44:50, Scott talks about some of the aftereffects of the game and how he juxtaposed this effect with the racist killing of Booker T. Spicely   At about 47:50, Scott talks about the legacy of The Secret Game and its participants    At about 49:00, Scott talks about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 and his 1982 book, Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, including his connection to the great historian, John Hope Franklin   At about 52:00, Scott talks about the silences, both forced and not, that have led to an incomplete accounting of the death and destruction from the Tulsa Race Massacre; he also talks about how he is involved in efforts to do exhumations and studies into the deaths and circumstance from 1921 Tulsa   At about 53:30, Scott and Pete talk about the renewed interest in the massacre due to The Watchmen, Lovecraft Country, and the 100th anniversary, with Scott explaining why he has written a “sequel” of sorts to his 1982 book with 2021's The Ground Breaking; a lot of the interest comes from Scott's work on a commission to search for the mass graves of massacre victims   At about 57:20, Scott talks about reparations with regard to the massacre   At about 59:25, Scott reads a bit of Chapter One and the last part of The Afterword from The Secret Game...   At about 1:05:00, Scott talks about future projects and shouts out bookstores where you can buy his book-Fulton Street Books in Tulsa, Magic City Books in Tulsa You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Spotify, Stitcher,  and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1.  This is a passion project, a DIY operation, and Pete would love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.

On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we speak with Sunita Puri, author of "That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour." Puri is an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California, where she's also the medical director of palliative medicine at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center. She'll do a free event on the Zoom platform in connection with this insightful book on Wednesday the 28th at 6pm; the event is being co-presented by Hospice of Green Country and Magic City Books. More details on this event (including how to register for a Zoom link so you can attend online) are posted here .

We're pleased to welcome back to our program the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel, whose newest book, which he tells us about, is "Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic." The book employs in-depth interviews with the film's director, stars, crew, casting team, and others to provide the definitive account of an American movie like no other. One of the most innovative and daring motion pictures of its time, Midnight Cowboy won three Oscars, including Best Picture...and it was the first film ever to get an "X" rating. It's a movie that, as Frankel asserts, reflects how Hollywood itself was, like much of the country in 1969, starting to break free from certain forms of cultural and sexual repression. Please note that Frankel will take part in an online-only "book launch" event for this title, to be presented on Zoom by Magic City Books on Thursday the 25th at 7pm. More details on that event are here .

On this episode, we talk with Melissa Bernstein, of the wildly successful toy company Melissa & Doug. Melissa shares her journey with anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide. Her new book, "LifeLines: An Inspirational Journey from Profound Darkness to Radiant Light," is her publicly sharing how she has found purpose, peace, and meaning. This is a preview of Matt Gleason's Magic City Books interview with Melissa live on Tuesday, March 30 at 7:00 pm CT. on the Zoom platform and Facebook Live. To register in advance for the free event on Zoom, visit: https://magiccitybooks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XyjuUtFzTguDa8C_TG2DMg.

Our guest is Kevin Brockmeier, an imaginative and acclaimed writer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. His many books include the novels "The Illumination" and "The Brief History of the Dead" as well as the story collections "Things That Fall from the Sky" and "The View from the Seventh Layer." He joins us to discuss his new book, a collection of very short stories called "The Ghost Variations." As per a critic writing for Booklist: "Brockmeier's 100 extremely short ghost stories present a range in tone from unsettling to terrifying, and pack a fearful punch with an economy of language, even for readers primed to feel uneasy.... The tales themselves are gems: modern, haunted treasures to be discovered." Please note that Brockmeier take part in a virtual author event this coming Friday (the 12th) at 7pm on the Zoom platform; the event is being presented by Magic City Books and more info is posted here .

Our guest is the Tulsa-based writer, creative writing teacher, playwright, and performer, Michael Wright. He's had an active, far-flung career in the dual worlds of literature and theatre. The author of novels, plays, poems, and varous performance-art and spoken-word experiments, Wright was also the 2010 Playwriting Teacher of the Year for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the winner of the Kennedy Center 2011 Milan Stitt Award for outstanding teaching and professional work in playwriting. He joins us to discuss his novel, which is his second; it's called "The Chessmen." Please note that Wright will soon take part in a virtual book-launch event, to be presented on Wednesday the 10th by Magic City Books. Details are posted here .

Guest Jeff Martin, co-founder of Booksmart Tulsa and Magic City Books

Our guest is Emily Contois, Assistant Professor of Media Studies here at The University of Tulsa. Her new book, which she tells us about, is "Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture." It is, per Library Journal, "a fascinating work of cultural studies that makes evident the continued power and threat of explicitly gendered food production and consumption in the 21st century. [This book is] recommended broadly for students and scholars of fields related to gender, culture, and consumption." And please note that Prof. Contois will take part in a "virtual book launch" event for this volume, which happens online on Monday the 16th at 7pm. (The event is being presented by Magic City Books; full details are posted here .)

Our guest is the well-regarded historian and author Peter Cozzens, who joins us to discuss his new book, "Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation." The book argues that Tecumseh was actually a co-leader of sorts of the Shawnee tribe with his often-misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa. Please note that Mr. Cozzens will take part in a free, online, upcoming book-discussion event on Monday the 2nd, to be presented on the Zoom platform. To learn more about (and/or register for) this event, which is being offered by Magic City Books and begins at 7pm, please go here .

Jeff Martin "sits" down with Chris and Jesse to talk about stories, running a bookstore during a pandemic, and some of his best memories from Philbrook and Magic City Books. Hear Jeff name what he would call his autobiography, and why Jeff and Chris would throw the world's craziest party.The Chuck Palahniuk video that is referenced can be watched here: https://youtu.be/urkfGTVNpnwTo see Magic City Books list of upcoming events go to https://www.magiccitybooks.com/To get a ticket for some alone time at Philbrook, visit there website: https://philbrook.org/visit/reopening/Please don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts or anywhere podcasts can be found. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this edition of The PEN Pod, we connect with Tulsa's Jeff Martin, who runs Magic City Books and leads PEN America's Tulsa chapter. He talks about how he's keeping the community there connected and what might change about bookselling after the crisis. Then we discuss anti-Asian racism amid the pandemic. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/support

Recorded at Magic City Books:  https://www.magiccitybooks.com/Hosted by Candace G. Wiley of The Watering Hole Poetry (https://twhpoetry.org/)Produced by Carl Antonowicz (https://www.cantocomics.com)

Recorded at Magic City Books in Tulsa, Oklahoma (https://www.magiccitybooks.com/)Hosted by Candace G. Wiley (https://twhpoetry.org/)Guest: Beau Bledsoe (http://www.beaubledsoe.com/)Produced by Carl Antonowicz (https://www.cantocomics.com/)

Pat Cawiezell, of Magic City Books, joins Matt Gleason as they talk about some of their favorite books on the Magic City Books' list of Mental Health Association Oklahoma recommended books. See the list here! https://bookshop.org/lists/mental-health-association-book-list

Recorded at Magic City Books in Tulsa, Oklahoma (https://www.magiccitybooks.com/)Hosted by Candace G. Wiley (https://twhpoetry.org/)Guest: Tina Johnson (https://www.facebook.com/tina.b.johnson.3)Produced by Carl Antonowicz (https://www.cantocomics.com/)

Join Leah this week as she interviews John Carreyrou, the former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter who uncovered the lies, fraud, and toxic culture of Theranos. Carreyrou was an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal since 1999, covering numerous areas from terrorism to healthcare. On this episode, they discuss his award-winning book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup as well as his investigative methods in this case. Thank you to Magic City Books in Tulsa for coordinating the event that connected us to Mr. Carreyrou.   Subscribe to Workman Forensics: http://bit.ly/2Qrna20 LIKE us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2K73yiN FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WoRQ9N FOLLOW us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2W9rf0Z FOLLOW us on LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2I3iH1X Check us out at www.workmanforensics.com

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. The voice you just heard is our TulsaPeople Tulsan of the Year, Jeff Martin. I’m a huge fan of Jeff and the work he does for our city. At the end of our conversation we recorded in early December, I mentioned to Jeff that his work has helped keep me in Tulsa, and that’s definitely true. I’m a bookworm and a regular audience member at author talks hosted by Booksmart Tulsa, which was launched by Jeff in 2009. It started as a monthly pub book club held at McNellies and has grown into the Tulsa Literary Coalition that has brought more than 1,000 authors to Tulsa, including nearly 200 in 2019. That’s an event every other day. And Jeff works most of them for free. It’s those events that educate and inspire me and help shape me as a writer. Two years ago, Jeff and his business partner (the late Cindy Hulsey) opened Magic City Books at the corner of Archer St and Detroit Ave in downtown Tulsa’s arts district. Jeff and Tulsa Literary Coalition’s efforts have help reinvigorate Tulsa’s longtime love for books and we’re now seeing an explosion of independent bookstores opening in Tulsa. In our conversation, Jeff discusses why it’s so important to see those literary allies appearing across the metro. Connie Cronley wrote an excellent piece on Jeff in our January issue, and I’m thrilled I had the opportunity to expand on her work in our chat. He and I discussed his childhood and how his early work in a video store and a national chain bookstore helped mold him into who he is today. It turns out not being scared of the word “no” and asking for forgiveness instead of permission can take someone a long way toward their dreams. We also briefly talk about his work as the communications manager for Philbrook. It’s a dream job he wouldn’t have had it not been for hosting a book talk at the museum. If you’ve listened to Philbrook’s Museum Confidential podcast, you’ll already be familiar with Jeff. For those who haven’t checked it out, I suggest once you’re finished listening all our episodes, you dive into their archive. It’s really great stuff. A few days before we recorded, Jeff gave me the opportunity to moderate a book talk with author Paul Hendrickson. I can tell you, it’s not easy work filling Jeff’s shoes for an evening. I had fun, and I look forward to doing more in the future to help give the man a break every now and then. He’s earned them. Following that conversation, The Voice music writer and People To Wave To host Kyra Bruce shares highlights from her interview with Tulsa rapper First Verse, who also shares a new single with you to close out the episode. Alright let’s get this going. This is Tulsa Talks with Jeff Martin.

Today our guest is our friend Joe Hight. Joe is a journalism professor, columnist, writer, consultant and a bookstore owner. His newspaper career as an editor, director, managing editor or reporter spanned for 35 years. His new book is “Unnecessary Sorrow: A Journalist Investigates the Life and Death of His Oldest Brother: Ordained, Discarded, Slain by Police.” It took Joe more than a decade to write and publish. The book will be launched at a special event in Tulsa, followed by an event in Edmond. Part of the proceeds from book sales will benefit Mental Health Association Oklahoma. At both events, Elena Hight, Joe Hight’s daughter, will perform “My Uncle, a song she wrote based on the book. LINK TO "MY UNCLE" VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfEeBkubhNg All the details are in this episode’s show notes. To give some background on the book, Joe has always wondered what happened to his oldest brother, Paul Hight, a Roman Catholic priest purged from the Church because of his mental illness and who was killed by police on his front doorstep. Joe weighed through thousands of pages of documents, including his brother’s own writings and a 150-page police report about his death. In the book, Joe spotlights the days when our mental health system often misdiagnosed and mistreated people suffering the most. BOOK LAUNCH INFO The book will be launched at a special event in Tulsa, followed by an event in Edmond. Part of the proceeds from book sales will benefit Mental Health Association Oklahoma. The official launch will be during an event with Magic City Books at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at The University of Tulsa’s Allen Chapman Student Union, 3035 E 5th.  Matt Gleason will conduct an interview with Hight about his book. The Oklahoma City-area launch will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at Best of Books, 1313 E Danforth in the Kickingbird Square Shopping Center. Hight and his family own the bookstore.

Recently, I participated in the AoM podcast's first live audience interview. It took place at Magic City Books here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and joining me for the interview was two-time past guest Adam Makos. Makos, the author of A Higher Call and Devotion, was here in T-Town to discuss his most recent book, Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II. Spearhead follows the story of Clarence Smoyer -- a quiet kid from Pennsylvania coal country who became one of the greatest tank gunners in World War II history -- and how his life crossed paths with an enemy tanker, Gustav Schaefer, during the Battle of Cologne. Adam shares how he became interested in WWII history as a kid and how he found Clarence's story. He then gives us an engaging rundown of tank warfare in WWII, and walks us through Clarence’s hero’s journey and the epic battles he faced with calm commitment and a love for his team of tankers. We end our conversation discussing what happened when Clarence and Gustav recently met up as old men, and the lessons Adam thinks members of the social media age can take from the veterans of the Big One. Get the show notes at aom.is/spearhead.

Season 2 is all about reinvention, and you could say that today’s guest, Meg Myers Morgan, wrote the book on how to do it — through negotiation and self-reflection. Then, City Editor Morgan Phillips takes fitness resolutions to new heights on today’s edition of What the What?!So let’s talk, Tulsa.Today's episode is brought to you by CVCaudit.com, presenting the 2019 TulsaPeople Readership Survey.That’s the voice of Meg Myers Morgan, assistant professor at OU-Tulsa and coordinator of the school’s Master of Public Administration program, talking about her new book, “Everything is Negotiable: The Five Tactics to Get What You Want in Life, Love and Work.”A New Year brings with it promises of new beginnings. Of a new you. And while we all want 2019 to be the year when we become richer, prettier, skinnier, more organized versions of ourselves, statistically very few of us will stick with our goals. If we even turned our amorphous wishes into concrete goals in the first place. And maybe that’s because we’re all so focused on the end goal, how wonderful our lives will be once we achieve this one thing, that we lose sight of the process it takes to get there. But that’s what I love about Meg’s new book, “Everything is Negotiable,” which might be the one book you need to negotiate your way to a better life. The book represents a reinvention or Meg’s writing career, as she shifted from the humorous, slice-of-life essays in her first book “Harebrained,” to the more prescriptive approach of her follow-up. The five tactics in Meg’s book are: choosing, wanting, owning, giving and getting. I sat down with her in the studio to figure out how to use these tactics to make — and keep — New Year’s resolutions.You can purchase “Everything is Negotiable” at Magic City Books, and be sure to follow Meg at megmyersmorgan.com, and across social media using the handle @megmyersmorgan. May 2019 bring you many happy pivots, Tulsa.Thanks so much for Listening to Tulsa Talks! If you enjoyed this episode, tell a friend about the show, and leave us a rating or review on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, @TulsaPeople, or head to our home on the web, TulsaPeople.com/podcast. There, you’ll find show notes and more info about our guests and topics. Every episode, we play you out with some local music. Today’s selection is “Another,” from the album Contenders by Eric Himan.To learn more about this artist, visit erichiman.com.Today's episode is brought to you by CVCaudit.com, presenting the 2019 TulsaPeople Readership Survey.

You're listening to Tulsa Talks, a TulsaPeople podcast. I'm your host Anna Bennett. Today's episode features a conversation with Elizabeth Frame Ellison, the President and CEO of the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation, which just celebrated the opening of the Mother Road Market. Then city editor Morgan Philips tries her hand at storytelling in this week's episode of what the what?! So let's talk Tulsa "I think I'm raising little entrepreneurs because they they're asking me if they can sell things out of the pop up vault. And if I'm going to charge them or not. And I tell them absolutely you can sell something out of the pop up fault. And yes, I’m absolutely charging."That's the voice of Elizabeth Frame Ellison, President and CEO of LTFF. Now, the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation just celebrated the opening of the Mother Road Market at 1124 South Lewis Avenue on historic Route 66. This 27,000-square-foot market has a collection of over 20 retail and restaurant concepts ranging from brand-new startups to well-established Tulsa restaurants. Among these are innovative new offerings from local favorites such as Pollo al Carbon, Andolini’s, Lone Wolf Banh Mi, Trenchers and Mr. Nice Guys. In addition to these retail and restaurant concepts Mother Road Market features the WEL bar which is a full-service bar with beer, wine, cocktails, and coffee, a demonstration kitchen which is ideal for special events like cooking classes and workshops, a small pop up space where local entrepreneurs showcase their products, a gigantic patio that features outdoor lounge and dining seating and frequent live music and other events. Out on the patio. You'll also find a nine-hole miniature golf course that features fun landmarks from across the United States.The market also works in tandem with Kitchen 66, Tulsa’s kickstart kitchen and a program of LTFF which removes barriers for Tulsa food entrepreneurs by offering affordable commercial kitchen space business training programs and sales and distribution opportunities inside the Mother Road Market. Kitchen. 66 has 2800 square feet of commercial kitchen space, as well as the Kitchen 66 takeover cafe featuring a rotating mix of food entrepreneurs and the Kitchen 66 General Store featuring products made by Kitchen 66 entrepreneurs and other Oklahoma makers. A complete list of amenities tenants and events can be found at MotherRoadMarket.com. But now let's dive into our conversation with Elizabeth Frame Ellison, the President and CEO of LTFF, which as you know, just celebrated the opening of the Mother Road Market. So congratulations on that, I know that's a huge deal. And we're all very excited. Can you give us a rundown of what's happening?EFE: Just coming up this week, we have a pop up vault within the space that's actually original to the building. The building was built in 1939 as a grocery distribution warehouse. So that's appropriate. I know we're really excited that we get to repurpose it for another type of food enterprise. But the original vault of the building is actually a pop up space that anyone can rent just for the day or for the week to try something out. So this week will actually have Fleet Feet doing a pop up. We also have businesses like Magic City Books doing cooking pop ups, jewelry pop ups, pottery pop ups, all sorts of stuff like that. We've also got yoga class going on.Learn more about the Mother Road Market.Learn more about the LTFF.Today’s local music selection is Letters by Casii Stephan. Listen to the track on Spotify here. Visit Casii’s website here.

In this episode, Salome interviews Jeff Martin, the communications manager at the Philbrook Museum. Jeff is also an author and writer, and also is the founder of Tulsa Literary Coalition and Magic City Books. In this episode, we get a inside information about the Philbrook Museum, and we talk about the present and future art culture of Tulsa Oklahoma.

Cindy Hulsey, Executive Director of Tulsa Literary Coalition and soon to be General Manager of Magic City Books, stopped in to the brand new studio to have a conversation about some of the cool things that will be happening soon in Tulsa's Brady Arts District! We talked about some of the goals of the Literary Coalition in the community and spent some time learning about Cindy and how she became involved.  You'll hear about some of the times that reading changed lives, how reading can be a personal creative endeavor, and the types of things reading can teach you.    If you'd like to learn more you can visit http://www.tulsalitco.org/ or http://magiccitybooks.com/ and be sure to find Book Smart Tulsa on Facebook!