Welcome to Neighborhood Bookstore, an author interview podcast. We love used bookstores, where the backstock is alive and well, and we believe in supporting our "local." So each episode, we'll take a book off the shelf at our favorite used bookstore -- POP! Art Books Culture in Boardman, Ohio -- and we'll interview the author about its creation. Grab a chair and join us!
Neighborhood Bookstore
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Podcast Overview
Welcome to Neighborhood Bookstore, an author interview podcast. We love used bookstores, where the backstock is alive and well, and we believe in supporting our "local." So each episode, we'll take a book off the shelf at our favorite used bookstore -- POP! Art Books Culture in Boardman, Ohio -- and we'll interview the author about its creation. Grab a chair and join us!
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Recent Episodes
July 9, 2024
April White Talks The Divorce Colony
On the Season One Finale of Neighborhood Bookstore, historian and journalist April White discusses her narrative nonfiction book THE DIVORCE COLONY.<br /><br />This episode particularly warms my heart. First, it is the culmination of all our work to make season one of Neighborhood Bookstore happen. Second, I have known this author, April White, since high school. It is such a privilege to see her career blossom and to chat about her amazing book.On this episode:<ul><li>Accidentally writing a Feminist narrative</li><li>Recording the forgotten corners of American history</li><li>How 19th century “paparazzi” made it possible to research the Divorce Colony</li><li>Writing a women’s story, a frontier story, a story about scandal, a railroad story, a western, and a history book</li><li>Deadwood in the days after Wild Bill Hickok’s murder</li><li>The amazing record keeping of Sioux Falls, South Dakota</li><li>What The Divorce Colony can tell us about our lives today</li><li>Coming off of Smithsonian Magazine, the Washington Post, Boston Globe Magazine, Philly Magazine, and Atlas Obscura</li><li>The emergence and (maybe) the end of no-fault divorce</li><li>Following your curiosity back through history</li></ul>Special thanks to: my co-host, Craig Duster, owner and head ne’er-do-well at my favorite used bookstore Pop Art Books Culture. Craig always brings an enthusiastic, important, and original perspective to our interviews; my co-producers Eliza Osborn and Julie Cancio Harper, who helped this show get off the ground as well as cross the finish line; I must acknowledge the (uncredited) feedback I received from Robert Osborn, who surfed the first big wave of podcast production and shared his wisdom and experience with me; my narrator, Adam Federman, who donated his time and craft in between jobs in Los Angeles; my guests, who made time and space to talk with me about their craft and their experiences: James Grady, Christopher Barzak, Abby Vandiver (aka: Abby Collette), Peter Brandvold, David Morrell, and April White; and most of all, I must thank you, reader and listener, for showing up, for sharing community with me, and for providing encouragement and feedback. I enjoyed spending time with you so much.Neighborhood Bookstore podcast will be back, after a brief hiatus, for Season Two.You’re going to love it.
June 3, 2024
David Morrell Talks Creepers
On episode 5 of the Neighborhood Bookstore podcast, bestselling author David Morrell (creator of Rambo) discusses his Bram Stoker Award-winning horror novel CREEPERS.<br /><br />In this episode:<br /><ul><li>Researching and writing an urban exploration (UrbEx) thriller</li><li>Writing in “real time”</li><li>The fascination of life frozen in time</li><li>Never getting over The Wild Bunch, and Peckinpah’s influence on writing action in First Blood</li><li>Combining thriller, horror, mystery, and history</li><li>Writing the weird-but-true thing</li><li>Readers feel more than they understand</li><li>Being a fan of James Grady</li><li>Dan Brown . . . IYKYK</li><li>The limiting nature of modern media</li><li>How Creepers the novel became Do Not Enter the (forthcoming) movie</li><li>Writing a western, and what Taylor Sheridan got wrong</li><li>Edgar Allen Poe’s theory of composition</li><li>John Barth’s triangulation of the senses: 3 senses in every scene.</li></ul>
May 6, 2024
Peter Brandvold Talks The Devil and Lou Prophet
Welcome to Episode 4 of Neighborhood Bookstore! Host Eric Harper talks with popular western author Peter Brandvold about his bounty hunter novel THE DEVIL AND LOU PROPHET.<br /><br />In this episode:<br />•Baking bread and talking books<br />•Writing a lighthearted western<br />•Being classmates with David Foster Wallace<br />•Writing for a market, being practical, and making money<br />•Sex and violence!<br />•The marketing genius of Mike Bray at Wolfpack Publishing<br />•Wanting to be Norman Maclean, Jim Harrison, or Roger Welsh<br />•The versatility of the western genre<br />•Willa Cather is a western author<br />•The challenge of wrapping up a series<br />•Getting Craig started reading westerns<br />•Will the western survive the next 10 years?<br />•How Lou Prophet joined the Daisy Gumm Mysteries by Alice Duncan<br />•Writing nonfiction about dogs<br />•Planning a Viking series, exploring the rhinestone
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