Kazi 88.7 Fm Book Review

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Ruben Degollado, author of the novel THE FAMILY IZQUIERDO.  In the interview, Degollado shared how he wrote several short stories about a family in the Rio Grande Valley over several years that became the foundation of the novel.  He also discussed using multiple point of view characters in the novels, the misfortunes of the fictional family, and the supernatural elements in the novel.  As written in the description of the book, "As the Izquierdos face a distressing present and an uncertain future, they are sustained by the blood that binds them, a divine presence, and an abiding love for one another."  You can follow Degollado on Twitter at @ruben_degollado, on his Facebook page at Ruben Degollado, Author, and on Instagram at ruben_degollado.  Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbook

In December of 2013, Senator Raphael Warnock, who then was senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, published his first book, THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH: Theology, Piety and Public Witness. In the book, he traces the historical significance of the rise in development of black theology as an important conversation partner for the black church. He discusses how black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all people. I interviewed Reverend Warnock in January of 2014 on KAZI Book Review, the show I hosted on KAZI 88.7 in Austin, Texas., from May 2009 - August 2021.  In September 2021 I launched Diverse Voices Book Review as a show on my podcast channel, Hopeton Hay Podcasts.  Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWe

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Phil Allen Jr., author of THE PROPHETIC LENS: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier.  In the interview Allen discussed how the camera has been used as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice.

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Lan Samanatha Chang, author of the novel THE FAMILY CHAO.   THE FAMILY CHAO is a drama about a Chinese American family in the Midwest, and the conflict between the eldest son and the father over inheritance and control of the family restaurant.  Chang said the novel was inspired in part by the classic late nineteenth century novel THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Dostoyevski and her experiences growing up in a Chinese American family in Wisconsin.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/  

Crime Fictions Picks of the Month hosts Hopeton Hay, Scott Montgomery, Molly Odintz, and Amanda Moore discussed their favorite recently released favorite crime fiction ANYWHERE YOU RUN by Wanda Morris, SOUTH CENTRAL NOIR edited by Gary Phillips, and THE FAMILY GAME by Catherine Steadman.

Diverse Voices Book Review contributor Amanda Moore interviewed Yasmin Angoe, author of They Come at Knight, the second installment in the Nena Knight series about an intrepid female assassin who will stop at nothing to protect her family.  Follow Yasmin on Twitter at @YasAWriter, on Instagram at @author_yas, and Facebook under Yasmin Angoe Author.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Peniel E. Joseph, author of THE THIRD RECONSTRUCTION.  In THE THIRD RECONSTRUCTION Joseph weaves in his personal experiences growing up in segregated neighborhood of New York City with three critical periods in history in American history he describes as reconstruction periods: 1865-1898, 1954-1968, and 2008 to the present. In the book he writes, “There is the America that we might call reconstructionist, home to champions of racial democracy, and there is the America that we might call redemptionist, a country that papers over racial, class, and gender hierarchies through an allegiance to white supremacy. Since the nation’s birth, its racial politics have been shaped by an ongoing battle between reconstructionist America and redemptionist America.”Peniel Joseph’s web site is https://penielejoseph.wordpress.com/. Twitter -@PenielJosephInstagram - @dr.penieljosephDiverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diver

Diverse Voices Book Review contributor Amanda Moore interviewed Margaret A. Burnham, author of BY HANDS NOW KNOWN.  In the book,  Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Gary Phillips, editor of the short story collection SOUTH CENTRAL NOIR.  In his introduction to the collection, Phillips wrote: "...The settings herein reflect South Central today or chronicle its colorful past, such as the days of the jazz joints along Central Avenue . . . From South Park to East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, from the borderlands of Watts to the one-time Southern Pacific railroad tracks paralleling Slauson Avenue, take a tour of a section of Los Angeles that may be unfamiliar to you but you will get to know, at least a little, by the time you finish reading this entertaining and engaging anthology.”Gary Phillips web site is Gary Phillips (gdphillips.com).Diverse Voices Book Review Podcast Platform Links:Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3keJ6Nx  Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/3rUotdUPodomatic - https://bit.ly/3Awpr3HDiverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hb

After a three-month hiatus for Crime Fiction Picks of the Month, host Hopeton Hay and Crime Fiction Picks cohosts Scott Montgomery, Molly Odintz, and Amanda Moore opened the podcast discussing how they came together to edit or contribute stories to AUSTIN NOIR, a short story collection being published in May 2023 by Akashic Books. The rest of the show topics with time stamps were as follows: At the 8:07 mark they discussed their summer crime fiction pick, THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME by Gabino Iglesias,]. At the 17:58 they discussed their September crime fiction picks: Scott picked HELL AND BACK by Craig Johnson, Molly selected KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE by Deanna Raybourn, Amanda chose THEY COME AT KNIGHT by Yasmin Angoe, and Hopeton picked VALLEY OF SHADOWS by Rudy RuizAt the 24:28 they discussed their latest projects.Follow the Crime Fiction Picks of the Month hosts on Twitter:Hopeton - @diversebookshayMolly- @mollsotov89Amanda - @amoorebooksConnect with Scott on Facebook and be sure to check out CrimeReads wher

Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Gabino Iglesias, author of THE DEVIL TAES YOU HOME.  Published by Muholland Books, here is a description of the plot: "Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico."  To read the full description of the book click here.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/

Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Rudy Ruiz, author of the novel Valley of Shadows.  "...Through luminous prose and soul-searching reflections, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains..."  More information on the novel is available at VALLEY OF SHADOWS | Rudy Ruiz.

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Charlise Lyles, author of DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?  Charlise’s memoir covers her rise from a struggling student to winning a scholarship to a prestigious private school through the lens of race, family, and poverty from 1968 to 1977.   It reveals the role her father, though absent, played in inspiring her love of literature, the turbulent racial climate of Cleveland, and her coming of age.  You can purchase the book at https://www.grayco.com/product/do-i-dare-disturb-the-universe/ or https://www.amazon.com/Do-Dare-Disturb-Universe-Projects/dp/159851041X#:~:text=A%20memoir%20of%20race%20and,riots%20and%20a%20neighborhood%20murder.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Terry Dawson, author of THE AFTER: Poems Only A Planet Could Love.  “Dawson's poems explore the beauty and fragility of our planet and remind us of our responsibility to protect it.”Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

On Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Mark Pryor, author of DIE AROUND SUNDOWN.  In the novel, French Police detective Henri Lefort is given five days by the Germans to solve the murder, in the Louvre Museum, of one of their own.  More information on the book is available on Pryor’s web site, markpryorbooks.com/books. Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Meng Jin, author of the short story collection SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST.  From the publishers web page: “Written during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic, these stories explore intimacy and isolation, coming-of-age and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China, and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight, Self-Portrait with Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened self-consciousness, seemingly endless access to knowledge, and little actual power.”. More information on SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST is available at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/self-portrait-with-ghost-meng-jin?variant=39727621308450.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Salar Abdoh, author of the novel OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA.  “Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, confusion, and absurdity of combat from a seldom-glimpsed perspective that expands our understanding of the war novel.” More information on the book is available at http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/out-of-mesopotamia/.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.com

Hosts Maya Hay, Alex Winston and Alexis Winston interview Kelis Rowe, author of FINDING JUPITER. The novel “is a timeless love story set in Memphis, Tennessee where two hearts are threatened to be torn apart by old family secrets.”  Kelis Rowe writes sweeping classic teen romance novels from Black teen points of view. FINDING JUPITER was launched out of Black Pearl Books in Austin, TX on May 31, 2022.  Her web site is https://www.kelisrowe.com/.

Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Meg Gardiner, co-author of HEAT 2.  “Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral, and Heat teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters of his classic crime film-with an all-new story unfolding in the years before and after the iconic movie.” More information on the novel is available at http://meggardiner.com/books/heat-2/.

Host Hopeton Hay interviewed Denise Mina, author of the crime novel CONFIDENCE.  FROM DENISE MINA’S WEB SITE DESCRIPTION OF THE NOVEL: “When amateur film-maker Lisa Lee vanishes from a Scottish seaside town, journalists Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her…On a thrilling chase across Europe to discover what happened to Lisa, Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry.” Read more at http://www.denisemina.com/books.