
GCL Book Club
For intelligent, candid conversations with authors of all genres, tune in to the Gulf Coast Life Book Club with Cary Barbor. Listen in on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 1 pm and 9 pm on WGCU FM.
Latest Episodes
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We hear from former This American Life producer Stephanie Foo, who talks about her compelling memoir What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma.
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Stella Levi was 92 when she began telling her story of breing a Holocaust survivor. Michael Frank captured it in One Hundred Saturdays.
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Author Maria Teresa Hart discusses her personal and cultural history of dolls that is called, simply, Doll.
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Lynn Steger Strong's new novel Flight explores adult children gathering at Christmas after the death of their mother.
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Author Lynne Tillman describes caring for her mother through normal pressure hydrocephalus, which causes fluid on the brain.
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Joan is an ICU doctor in a busy New York City hospital. She’s extremely devoted to her work and interested in little else, which causes people around her to try to steer her toward other things in life. We talk to Weike Wang about her new novel, Joan is Okay.
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We hear from poet and essayist Diana Goetsch about her new memoir This Body I Wore, in which she describes coming out as a trans woman at age 50.
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Writer Elizabeth Crane had a loving marriage of 15 years—or so she thought, until one day her husband said: “I’m not happy.” Her new memoir, called This Story Will Change, takes us through that time in her life.
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We hear from Marcy Dermansky, author of Hurricane Girl, a fascinating, funny, horrifying, relatable and very gripping read.
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Beverly Gooden’s book dispels misunderstandings about intimate partner violence and is an indispensable source of education and hope on the subject.