Literary Nation Talk Radio

Thursdays 10:00 a.m. PST / Noon CST / 1:00 p.m. EST

KABF FM 88.3 and listen on-line http://www.kabf.org


Host Patrick M. Oliver dialogues with local and nationally noted authors,
writers, educators and community leaders.
Past guest include: Common, Marian Wright Edelman, Sharon Flake,
Haki R. Madhubuti, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Gloria Browne-Marshall, Mos Def,
Susan Taylor and numerous others.

As part of our Tune-In to Books initiative individuals and organizations
around the country will be listening to the interview in their classrooms,
communities centers, libraries and media centers. 

Prior to the radio broadcast, students will have researched the guest,
discussed their publications in classrooms and a limited number of
students questions will be sent to Literary Nation.

Periodically students get the opportunity to co-host Literary Nation
after researching the author and preparing interview questions.

Also on-site live remotes at schools, bookstores and coffeehouses. 

Tune-in and spread the word!

The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson

Better Than Alright Ledisi

Let My Soul Surrender Rickie Byars-Beckwith

Our Difficult Sunlight Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia K. Popoff

Lock Down Walter Dean Myers

Surviving and Thriving Julianne Malveaux

Culture, Literacy and Learning Carol Lee

Kwanzaa Maulana Karenga

Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes

Head Off and Split Nikki Finney

God is Not an American jessica Care moore

Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor

Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson

Blacks Gwendolyn Brooks

I and I Bob Marley Tony Medina

Skin Inc Thomas Sayers Ellis

We Could Be Brothers Derrick Barnes

Yellow Black Haki R. Madhuduti

Silver Sparrow Tayari Jones

Cotton Fields of Dreams Janis F. Kearney