Author Talk

About Author Talk

On Author Talk, we talk to Authors that are on any step of the writing journey. Just starting to have several books out to even having a publishing company etc. We love to hear all about the author's journey.

Publisher

Aimee Ravichandran

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Feb 2021

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

91 of 191 episodes have a transcript.

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   19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Author Talk - Jerome Loving

   Host [Host Name] interviews acclaimed author Jerome Loving about his memoir, After the Good War, exploring personal history and the Vietnam War era.

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   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Author Talk - Matt Evans

   Host Russell and Valerie interview equine veterinarian and comic Matt Evans about his memoir, exploring his journey to becoming a horse vet and the realities of the profession.

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   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Author Talk - Mark Week

   New on Author Talk: Mark Weeks, author of POON TOWN Russell and I, with Sandy filling in for Valerie, talk with Mark about his novel set in the invite-only world of Florida Keys tarpon tournaments. In that world, successful adults stake their whole self-esteem on a fish they're going to release anyway. It's a fishing book the way a marathon book is about running. It's really about obsession, aging, and watching something you love slowly decline. We also get into Mark's 22 years in Japan, fly fishing in snow country, the pololo worm hatch, and what it's like when a thousand tarpon swim past your perfect cast and give you the fin.

Inside a recent episode

Author Talk - Jerome Loving

Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Uh, so, uh, this is something that, I mean, this was a great quagmire we got into. It was a great mistake. It cost a lot of lives. I mean, there are probably as many of the committed suicide that there are on the wall probably, but, uh, different figures come and go. Uh, uh, And Vietnam changed America in many ways, in some good ways, women's rights, gay rights, whatever. But we did change. And we really lost faith in our government because they were lying to us. Because McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, he knew and Johnson knew that we could not win that war. And yet we kept pumping lives into it. […]

Who has been a guest on Author Talk

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jerome Loving
• Matt Evans
• Alexa Bigwarfe
• Sandy Malone
• Ed McDonald

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

4,657,915,192

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

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Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

27

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