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

KABF FM 88.3 Central Little Rock or on-line http://www.kabf.us



Host Patrick M. Oliver dialogues with local and nationally noted authors, writers, educators and community leaders. Past guest include: Common, Marian Wright Edelman, 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

Our Difficult Sunlight  Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia K. Popoff

Surviving and Thriving  Julianne Malveaux

Culture, Literacy and Learning Carol Lee

A Man from Another Land  Isaiah Washington

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