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.
Susan Rebecca White
May 10, 2009
Bound South is intelligent and funny and insightful about many things that occupy everybody’s minds all over the country: important matters like race, class, gender roles, and really important matters like sex and food.
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Kathryn Stockett
April 26, 2009
Kathryn Stockett’s new book The Help was described in its New York Times review as a "soon to be wildly popular novel." Well, happily for the self-effacing, mild-mannered Atlanta resident, the paper of record knows what they’re talking about. Earlier this year the debut work made it to Number 15 on the Times’ bestseller list.
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Sarah Vowell
November 30,2008
Interviewed while on book tour for The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell is just as one would hope: funny, self-deprecating, and tending to let conversation go off into unpredictable, though always entertaining, directions.
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Bob Schieffer
October 5, 2008
The longtime host of CBS’ "Face the Nation" talked to us while in Atlanta promoting his new book, Bob Schieffer’s America and was the very embodiment of the impartial observer virtually all journalists claim to be. As in his book, in our Cover to Cover interview, the veteran newsman in our interview was as folksy as he was informative as we covered a wide range of issues both historical and contemporary, including media bias.
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David Maraniss
September 28, 2008
For Rome 60 author David Marannis – who has won the Pulitzer Prize and authored a string of bestsellers about both sports and politics – the political overtones and social developments of the time don’t detract from the games, they give them historical context and make for a fascinating read and a stimulating conversation.
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Jack Pendarvis
September 14, 2008
Pendarvis celebrated the publication of Awesome in his old hometown of Atlanta in mid-August, and the following morning sat down in the GPB studios with Cover to Cover’s Frank Reiss.
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Ben Jones
July 27, 2008
Jones, author of Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is the real deal. A man who grew up in dire poverty, he understands and champions the plight of working people. A man who nearly drank himself to death by his mid-30s but who sobered up to have not just one, but two successful careers, he is intimately familiar with both ends of the American Dream.
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Rick Bragg
July 13, 2008
The Prince of Frogtown author Rick Bragg is a bear of a man and writes evocatively of his reckless youth, the dangers he has encountered in his work and the boulder-sized chip on his shoulder. But as you will hear in the interview, he is a gentle soul, full of humor and compassion, and motivated by finding the beauty and music in the language he uses to tell his stories.
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