GCL Book Club
The first and third Wednesdays of the month at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
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 the month at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Latest Episodes
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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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In her new book The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia, journalist Laura Tillman traces Lalo’s journey from picking produce in the fields to becoming a beloved chef and owner of a leading Mexico City restaurant.
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Amy Grace Loyd's latest novel takes place in a headache clinic in an abandoned church. It explores physical and psychic pain.
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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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Dr. Kate Bowler joins us to talk about her two memoirs—No Cure For Being Human and Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I Have Loved—on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club.
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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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Katherine Lin's new novel is a page-turner that takes place in a luxurious hotel in the South of France.
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Pulitzer Prize nominee Linda Villarosa's book UNDER THE SKIN examines why Black Americans’ health outcomes are so much worse than those of white Americans.
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Victor LaValle's new novel introduces us to a little-known chapter of American history: Single or widowed women who homesteaded in places like Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas.
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Toronto Star book critic Janet Somerville joins us to give us the lowdown on ten great new reads.