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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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Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky - S6 E2

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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss "Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky: An Uncommon Life in the Commonwealth," an essay collection celebrating the Kentucky historian's life and career, written by Clark's friends and colleagues and edited by John E. Kleber. A 2004 KET production.

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - S6 E3

Premiered On: 03/02/2004

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," former Louisvillian ZZ Packer's debut story collection. A 2004 KET production.

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Rafting Rise - S6 E4

Premiered On: 04/06/2004

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss Joe Survant's "Rafting Rise," a collection of narrative poems set in Southcentral Kentucky's Rough, Green, and Ohio river basins in 1916 and '17. A 2004 KET production.

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Judge - S6 E5

Premiered On: 05/04/2004

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss Dwight Allen's debut novel, "Judge." Set in Louisville, it explores the lives of a federal judge and those who survive him after his death. A 2004 KET production.

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Newfound - S6 E6

Premiered On: 06/01/2004

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss Jim Wayne Miller's novel "Newfound," which explores rural life in Appalachia as seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy. A 2004 KET production.

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Thomas Merton: Essential Writings - S5 E12

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