It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 33 Interview – Nicholas George!
Nicholas George join us to share the release of his novel A Deadly Walk in Devon! We discuss the origin of his Walk Through England Mystery series, writing a cozy mystery with a gay detective, and being a Californian Anglophile writing about England.
Nicholas George is the author of the “A Walk Through England” mystery series, featuring retired police detective Rick “Chase” Chasen. Although a native Californian, Nicholas is an avid Anglophile (perhaps from listening to hours and hours of Beatles records as a teenager) and visits England regularly, usually to indulge in his other passion, country walking. Before taking up mystery writing, Nicholas oversaw communication programs for large corporate clients including Lockheed, Merck and Nissan. He lives in Pasadena, California, with his husband.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 32 Interview – H.N. Hirsch
H.N. Hirsch returns to share the release of the third novel in his Bob and Marcus series: Rain! We get to talk about the evolution of crime series, using location and real-world political climate, and the growth of character careers and relationships.
Titles for writers interested in learning to write crime fiction: Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver, Don’t Murder Your Mystery by Chris Roerdan, Writing Mysteries edited by Sue Grafton, Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot by Jane K. Cleland
Bio:
Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan and Princeton, Hirsch has taught at Harvard, the University of California-San Diego, Macalester College, and Oberlin, where he served as Dean of the Faculty and is now the Erwin N. Griswold Professor of Politics Emeritus. He is the author of The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter (“brilliant and sure to be controversial,” The New York Times), A Theory of Liberty, and the memoir Office Hours (“well-crafted and wistful,” Kirkus), as well as numerous articles on law, politics, and constitutional questions.
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December 29, 2023
It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 54 Interview – H.N. Hirsch
HN Hirsch shares his Bob and Marcus Mystery series with us: Shade, Fault Line, and Rain coming next year. We discuss how the series follows the growth of the men and their relationship over the decades as they contend with murders set in the political climates of each book’s era.
Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan and Princeton, Hirsch has taught at Harvard, the University of California-San Diego, Macalester College, and Oberlin, where he served as Dean of the Faculty and is now the Erwin N. Griswold Professor of Politics Emeritus. He is the author of The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter (“brilliant and sure to be controversial,” The New York Times), A Theory of Liberty, and the memoir Office Hours (“well-crafted and wistful,” Kirkus), as well as numerous articles on law, politics, and constitutional questions.
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Once Chris Kim earned her MA in applied linguistics, she was left wondering, ‘What now?’ A desire for self-renewal led to her accepting a university teaching position in Daegu, South Korea. While there, she gained a new cultural perspective, particularly when she married into the Kim family. Her father-in-law gifted her with the name “Kim Sujeong,” translated as crystal (or, as she’s been told, “white quartz”). After six years, she returned to the Tampa Bay area with her family and now teaches English to immigrants.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 30 Interview – Tony Maietta!
Tony Maietta joins us to share the news about his documentary, Mary Pickford: A Blessing and A Curse, the news about projects springing off the book he co-wrote with Jerry Torre, The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens, and his film-review podcast with Brad Shreve, the Going Hollywood podcast!
Tony Maietta is a noted film and television historian, author and host. He has appeared in numerous film documentaries on classic Hollywood, including works on Vincente Minnelli, William Holden, Jack Lemmon, Billy Wilder, Ida Lupino, and the queer trailblazer, director Dorothy Arzner. The most recent, “Mary Pickford: A Blessing and a Curse”, just won the audience prize at the American Documentary Film Festival the past April. He appeared in the Emmy-nominated Turner Classic Movies documentary series, Moguls and Movie Stars as well as in his own television series, here’s Hollywood! in which he discussed classic films through an LGBTQ+ lens. He was the on-camera host for the CBS Home Video DVD releases of The Lucy Show and I Love Lucy, in which he interviewed such show biz luminaries as Lucie Arnaz, Carole Cooke, and Robert Osborne. In 2018 he co-wrote the award-winning book, The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens with the “Marble Faun” himself, Jerry Torre, which depicts Torre’s life with the two iconoclastic aristocrats, Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie, from the documentary Grey Gardens. The book is currently being adapted into a limited dramatic series. His most recent project is the podcast, Going Hollywood, in which he and his co-host, Brad Shreve, discuss, debate, and often disagree about classic films and television from Hollywood’s “golden age”.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 33 Interview – Nicholas George!
