Radio
A Cappella owner Frank Reiss is one of several hosts of Georgia Public Broadcasting's radio program, Cover to Cover. Below are some of his previous interviews. Visit the Cover to Cover blog for more past and upcoming interviews by Frank and his fellow hosts.
Cornel West
February 7, 2010
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir is like its author: brilliant, unapologetic, full of passion yet cool. This poignant memoir traces West’s transformation from a schoolyard Robin Hood into a progressive cultural icon.
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Robert Hicks
January 5, 2010
A Separate Country is a novel based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controverisal generals of the Confederate Army – and one of its most tragic figures.
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Amanda Gable
November 2, 2009
Georgia native Amanda Gable discusses her novel The Confederate General Rides North.
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Richard Doster
October 25, 2009
Richard Doster discusses his latest book, Crossing the Lines, a quasi-historical cobbling of quotes, interviews, and editorials in the backdrop of baseball and journalism in the 1950s.
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Gary Pomerantz
September 21, 2009
The former AJC Reporter tells a tale of murder, bridge and the Great Depression in his novel The Devil's Tickets
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Pat Conroy
September 13, 2009
Pat Conroy's South of Broad, the Atlanta-born author's first novel in 14 years, raced to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List almost immediately upon its August publication, showing the enduring popularity of Conroy's distinctive Southern voice, lush prose, and inevitably wounded characters.
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Michael Malone
August 16, 2009
Michael Malone might not be the best known of the South’s many prolific novelists of the last 30 years, but with novels like The Four Corners of the Sky, Handling Sin, Dingley Falls and a number of others, he has established a base of loyal fans who love his work for its variety, humor, colorful characters and warm humanity.
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Remembering Atlanta Author Paul Hemphill
July 19, 2009
Hemphill was a native Southerner who loved so much about his culture that he was secure in pointing out its obvious defects. He was a natural journalist, whose writing embodied all the economy and simplicity of that world, but whose desire was to be more than that, to be a "real" writer, of books, at a time when those seemed to be things of permanence.
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Jessica Handler
July 12, 2009
Jessica Handler’s memoir, Invisible Sisters, was compared by Atlanta Magazine’s Teresa Weaver to The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. It is an apt comparison, for Handler’s work, like Didion’s, finds surprising uplift in the most heartbreaking of stories.
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Marc Fitten
June 28, 2009
Marc Fitten, author of Valeria's Last Stand, has been a well-known figure on the the Atlanta literary scene for years. As the editor of The Chattahoochee Review, Fitten has infused the venerable periodical with a more international flavor and has been a force behind bringing a number of literary authors from around the world to Atlanta.
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Warren St. John
May 31, 2009
In Outcasts United, St. John reports on a youth soccer team of refugee children from dozens of different countries playing in the town of Clarkston, GA.
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