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Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss Karen Salyer McElmurray's first novel, an intense and gloomy multigenerational tale set in the hills around Inez. A 2005 KET production.
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Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia - S5 E3

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Chris Holbrook's "Hell and Ohio," a collection of nine insightful and empathetic short stories about life in contemporary Appalachia. A 2003 KET production.

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Earth Bones - S5 E4

Premiered On: 04/01/2003

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss "Earth Bones," a collection of poems by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor. A 2003 KET production.

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Horse of a Different Color - S5 E5

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss "Horse of a Different Color" by Jim Squires, the retired newspaper editor who bred 2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos. A 2003 KET production.

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The Poisonwood Bible - S5 E6

Premiered On: 06/03/2003

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss "The Poisonwood Bible," Barbara Kingsolver's epic novel about an evangelical Baptist minister who takes his family to the Congo as missionaries in 1959. A 2003 KET production.

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Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood - S5 E7

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss bell hooks' "Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood," a moving memoir of her childhood in Western Kentucky written in imagistic three-page segments. A 2003 KET production.

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Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings - S5 E2

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Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South - S5 E1

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