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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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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

Premiered On: 07/01/2003

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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Ruby River - S5 E8

Premiered On: 08/05/2003

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Lynn Pruett's debut novel, which pits the proprietress of an Alabama truck stop against a Pentecostal minister. A 2003 KET production.

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Water Street - S5 E9

Premiered On: 09/02/2003

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Crystal E. Wilkinson's second collection of short stories. A 2003 KET production.

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Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History - S5 E10

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss John Egerton's "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History," which explores all facets of Southern cuisine through descriptions of more than 150 restaurants in 24 states, 160 recipes, and the history that ties them all together. A 2003 KET production.

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Horse of a Different Color - S5 E5

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Earth Bones - S5 E4

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Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia - S5 E3

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

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