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Writers LatitudeActor Tim Lounibos with Leth Oun, author of A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret ServiceA Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service was published in print in February and released as an audiobook narrated by actor Tim Lounibos in October. In this discussion, which features Lounibos reading selections, Oun and Lounibos and coauthor Joe Samuel Starnes discuss the book and take questions from the audience at the Collingswood Book Festival. Oun’s story includes hard memories of his childhood in Cambodia where his father was executed by the Khmer Rouge and he and his surviving family were enslaved in the Killing Fields for almost four...2023-10-1149 min
Bridging PhillyI’m Not Going to Die Today: From the Killing Fields to the Secret ServiceMeet Leth Oun, who was among the thousands of Cambodian refugees who found a home in South Philly in the 1980s. He is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, which eliminated a quarter of the country’s population. He talks to host Racquel Williams about writing his new memoir, A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields to the Secret Service with his co-author Joe Samuel Starnes. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad c...2023-04-0231 min
Free Library PodcastLeth Oun and Joe Samuel Starnes | A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret ServiceVeteran United States Secret Service Officer Leth Oun has protected presidents and vice presidents in four administrations in almost every state and more than a dozen countries. A political refugee who survived the genocidal Killing Fields of Cambodia, he arrived in America in 1983, became a citizen in 1990, earned a college degree from Widener University in 1998, and went to work for the federal government in 2000.
Joe Samuel Starnes three celebrated novels include Calling, Red Dirt, and Fall Line, which was named to The Atlanta Journal Constitution's 2011 ''Best of the South'' list. All of these works are featured in an essay in Twenty-Fi...2023-03-0157 min
AlliesThe Summer of Fun Hiatus EpisodeHope you enjoyed listening to our first season of episodes as much as we enjoyed creating them. Have a great summer and please check back in the fall for a new season of Allies! For more excellent podcast listening:A Guest in the House - hosted by rapper and journalist David Shanks (aka Traum Diggs) and professor and author Mickey Hess, A Guest int he House celebrates the best of what hip-hop has to offer and the lessons it can teach us about the ways we relate to each other across cultural, racial and social d...2021-06-1726 min
AlliesMeet the ProducerAnthony Sergi is producer of the Allies podcast, a show he co-created with host and long time friend and colleague, Carmen Ferrigno. He also produces the podcast A Guest in the House, co-hosted by rapper and journalist, David "Traum Diggs" Shanks, and author and professor of English, Dr. Mickey Hess. His first podcast, now archived, was Writers Latitude, hosted by author, Joe Samuel Starnes.While the podcasts Anthony produces differ in style and content, they share a common goal: to express stories and perspectives of diverse lived and learned experiences in hopes of finding common ground in t...2020-11-0553 min
Writers LatitudeSmokin' Joe and Jersey JoeThis panel recorded at the Collingswood Book Festival focuses on the lives of heavyweight boxing champions Joe Frazier and Jersey Joe Walcott. Mark Kram Jr., author of Smokin’ Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier, and Vincent Cream, Walcott’s grandson who wrote the foreword of the 2012 biography of Walcott, discuss the fighters. 2019-12-1758 minWriters LatitudeJonathan MilesMiles’ novel Anatomy of a Miracle, published in 2018, was selected as the town book for the 2019 Collingswood Book Festival. This discussion from the festival explores the novel and his close friendship with Mississippi author Larry Brown.2019-11-2752 minWriters LatitudePolitics on the PageThis panel recorded at the 2019 Collingswood Book Festival features Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch leading a discussion with Jo Piazza, author of the politically minded novel Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, and Shauna L. Shames, coauthor of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics.2019-10-3057 minWriters LatitudeGoodbye to the World’s Greatest BookstoreMy all-time favorite bookstore, Port Richmond Books—with an inventory of several hundred thousand used and rare books in an old movie house in Philadelphia—is closing this fall. I celebrate the store’s glorious 16 years in business with Greg Gillespie, founder and owner, and writer William Hastings. We also discuss the future of bookselling, the devastation of a digital culture in which rolling robots deliver books, and much else.2019-08-2948 minWriters LatitudeMickey HessMickey Hess is a one-of-a-kind writer. He has authored nine books that run the literary gamut from fiction to nonfiction, including the recently published Guest in the House of Hip-Hop: How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be, which blends memoir and cultural criticism; he also is coauthor of The Dirty Version, a 2014 biography of rapper Ol’Dirty Bastard2019-07-3057 minWriters LatitudeTony KnightonA longtime veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department, Tony Knighton is the author of Three Hours Past Midnight, a crime novel, and Happy Hour and Other Philadelphia Cruelties, a novella and collection of short stories. He discusses his gritty Philadelphia-based work, the city he knows like the back of his hand, the late Larry Brown, and much else.2019-06-2555 minWriters LatitudeJessica HandlerJessica Handler, author of the novel The Magnetic Girl, explores the myth and legend of Lulu Hurst, a teenager from rural Georgia whose alleged powers enthralled the nation in the 1880s, and explains why she wrote a novel about her. Handler, an Atlanta resident, also discusses her award-winning nonfiction.2019-05-2354 minWriters LatitudeKevin CatalanoThe author of the novel Where the Sun Shines Out talks about why he writes dark stories, meeting ex-Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz, and his obsession with Abraham Lincoln, among other topics. 2019-04-2951 minWriters LatitudeWilliam HastingsHastings, author of the novel The Howling Ages and the nonfiction book The Hard Way, works as a farmhand and a bookseller. He discusses his writing as well as the late, great Jim Harrison.2019-04-291h 00
Middle Chamber Books and Music PodcastMiddle Chamber Books Podcast #39: Collingswood Book FestivalThe Middle Chamber Books and Music Podcast returns from a long hiatus. We’re going to be producing the Middle Chamber Books podcast on a more regular schedule again, alternating with the Lubetkin on Communications podcast. We expect to broadcast weekly, making a new podcast available Monday mornings around 8am Eastern Time.
Michele Zeldner, founder and key organizer of the Collingswood (NJ) Book Festival, in its 13th year.
This is Middle Chamber Books episode #39, and includes some interviews conducted at the recent Collingswood, NJ Book Festival. It’s the festival’s 13th year, and we spoke with festiv...2015-10-1214 min
The Lubetkin Media CompaniesMiddle Chamber Books Podcast #39: Collingswood Book FestivalThe Middle Chamber Books and Music Podcast returns from a long hiatus. We're going to be producing the Middle Chamber Books podcast on a more regular schedule again, alternating with the Lubetkin on Communications podcast. We expect to broadcast weekly, making a new podcast available Monday mornings around 8am Eastern Time.
Michele Zeldner, founder and key organizer of the Collingswood (NJ) Book Festival, in its 13th year.
This is Middle Chamber Books episode #39, and includes some interviews conducted at the recent Collingswood, NJ Book Festival. It's the festival's 13th year, and we spoke with festival founder and...2015-10-1214 min