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Thoughts from a Page PodcastInterview with Amy Tector - THE FOULEST THINGSIn this interview, Amy and I discuss The Foulest Things, writing a series and mysteries as a pantser, why she created the fictional Dominion Archives, incorporating art theft into her story, and much more.Amy's recommended reads are:
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
Untangled by Lisa Damour
My Read-Alike Request Recommendations for The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr:
Miss Del Rio by Barbara Mujica
City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay
The Roaring Twenties Mystery series by Mary Miley
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2023-02-1431 min
Don’t Miss The Full Audiobook That Keeps Curious Minds Hooked.The Age of Dreaming by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/151759to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Age of Dreaming
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Brian Nishii
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
Release date: 11-30-21
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 9 ratings
Genres: Asian
Publisher's Summary:
Jun Nakayama was a silent-film star in the early days of Hollywood. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies. But he begins to worry that...
2021-11-3010h 47
KPFA - Against the GrainThe Invisible AristocracyClass divides and racial dynamics are explored in Nina Revoyr’s latest novel. In A Student of History, a biracial graduate student with a blue-collar background gains access to a very different world, that of the superrich descendants of the founders of Los Angeles. Many of them, he discovers, exert tremendous power and influence behind the scenes. (Encore presentation.)
Nina Revoyr, A Student of History Akashic, 2019
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2019-12-2442 min
Embrace Your Day With A Immersive Full Audiobook.Southland by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411112to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Southland
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Karen Chilton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Release date: November 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Southland brings us a fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four African-American boys were killed in the store Frank...
2019-11-261h 37Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveSouthland by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411112to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Southland
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Karen Chilton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Release date: November 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Southland brings us a fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four African-American boys were killed in the store Frank...
2019-11-261h 37
Top Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveSouthland by Nina RevoyrPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Southland Author: Nina Revoyr Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Southland brings us a fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four African-American boys were killed in the store...
2019-11-2605 min
Discover A Transformative Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Necessary Hunger by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/147390to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Necessary Hunger
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Jin Yang
Format: mp3
Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 05-08-19
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 16 ratings
Genres: Sports
Publisher's Summary:
As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her skill will take her, Nancy is not prepared for the complications that arise when she meets Raina Webber, a devoted, ferocious athlete, whose love of basketball is matched only by her...
2019-05-081h 03
Power-Up With The Full Audiobook That Keeps Story Seekers Hooked.The Necessary Hunger by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370309to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Necessary Hunger
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Jin Yang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 0 minutes
Release date: April 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Two high-school girls growing up in the inner city, one Japanese-American, the other African-American, hunger for basketball stardom and a life beyond South Central Los Angeles. As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her skill will take her, Nancy...
2019-04-261h 00Grab The Powerful Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!The Necessary Hunger by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370309to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Necessary Hunger
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Jin Yang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 0 minutes
Release date: April 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Two high-school girls growing up in the inner city, one Japanese-American, the other African-American, hunger for basketball stardom and a life beyond South Central Los Angeles. As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her skill will take her...
2019-04-261h 00Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionThe Necessary Hunger by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370309to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Necessary Hunger
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Jin Yang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 0 minutes
Release date: April 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Two high-school girls growing up in the inner city, one Japanese-American, the other African-American, hunger for basketball stardom and a life beyond South Central Los Angeles. As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her skill will take her...
2019-04-261h 00Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Necessary Hunger by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370309to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Necessary Hunger
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Jin Yang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 0 minutes
Release date: April 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Two high-school girls growing up in the inner city, one Japanese-American, the other African-American, hunger for basketball stardom and a life beyond South Central Los Angeles. As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her skill will take her, Nancy...
2019-04-261h 00
KPFA - Against the GrainThe Invisible AristocracyClass divides and racial dynamics are explored in Nina Revoyr’s new novel “A Student of History.” In it, a biracial graduate student with a blue-collar background gains access to a very different world, that of the superrich descendants of the founders of Los Angeles. Many of them, he discovers, exert tremendous power and influence behind the scenes.
Nina Revoyr, A Student of History Akashic, 2019
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2019-04-0159 min
Savor Your Day With A Best-Selling Full Audiobook.A Student of History by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368498to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Student of History
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Tim Fannon
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 5, 2019
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable power, and the ways the present is continually shaped by the past. Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on the South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for...
2019-03-057h 23Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionA Student of History by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368498to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Student of History
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Tim Fannon
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 5, 2019
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable power, and the ways the present is continually shaped by the past. Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on the South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for...
2019-03-057h 23
Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadEpisode 69 - A Yale Joint Jaunt aka "Searching for Rory Gilmore"Episode Sixty Nine Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! AND at Bookclub Bookstore & More.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– 10th Readalong –True Grit – Charles Portis Send in...
2019-02-051h 10
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public LibraryLive From the Vault: Rare Recordings of James BaldwinJoin us for a live broadcast (on KPFK 90.7 FM) dedicated to the voice of the author and civil rights activist James Baldwin. Brian DeShazor, host of From the Vault radio program, will air rare recordings of Baldwin from 1963-1968, including an oration called the Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, a reading from Giovanni’s Room; Baldwin’s fiery speech after the murder of four girls in Birmingham, Alabama; and his introduction of Dr. Martin Luther King (taped in the home of Marlon Brando) weeks before King’s assassination. DeShazor is joined by two writers who’ve thought deeply about Baldwin’s work—novel...
2016-07-151h 14
Begin A Captivating Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Lost Canyon by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309985to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Lost Canyon
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Karen Chilton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Release date: August 25, 2015
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. They are drawn to the mountains for reasons as diverse as their own lives. Gwen Foster, a counselor for at-risk youths, is struggling with burnout from the demands of her job. Real estate agent Oscar Barajas is adjusting to the fall of the housing market and being a single parent...
2015-08-2510h 08Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionLost Canyon by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309985to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Lost Canyon
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Karen Chilton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Release date: August 25, 2015
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. They are drawn to the mountains for reasons as diverse as their own lives. Gwen Foster, a counselor for at-risk youths, is struggling with burnout from the demands of her job. Real estate agent Oscar Barajas is adjusting to the fall of the housing market and being a single parent...
2015-08-2510h 08
Embrace The Unforgettable Full Audiobook Experience!Wingshooters by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303279to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Wingshooters
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Johanna Parker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Release date: November 25, 2011
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
The author of a Book Sense 76 pick and Los Angeles Times Best Book, Nina Revoyr is a writer of rare voice and distinct talent. Wingshooters is the tale of an isolated, all-white community torn apart by prejudice after the arrival of a half-Japanese girl and a young black couple. 'Revoyr continues her unique and affecting exploration of...
2011-11-256h 51Download Best Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionWingshooters by Nina RevoyrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303279to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Wingshooters
Author: Nina Revoyr
Narrator: Johanna Parker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Release date: November 25, 2011
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
The author of a Book Sense 76 pick and Los Angeles Times Best Book, Nina Revoyr is a writer of rare voice and distinct talent. Wingshooters is the tale of an isolated, all-white community torn apart by prejudice after the arrival of a half-Japanese girl and a young black couple. 'Revoyr continues her unique and affecting exploration of...
2011-11-256h 51
OSU Libraries ReadAloud - 2009ReadAloud, February 26, 2009African and Asian American Encounters: Layered Identities, Intertwined Histories and Coalitional Possibilities
Georgina Dodge, Assistant Vice Provost of the Office of Minority Affairs and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Associate Professor of History and Women"s Studies shared readings in commemoration of Black History Month and the Day of Remembrance which explore the intertwined experiences of African Americans and Asian Americans. Georgina read a short story set in Columbus, Ohio: "Feeding the Stick" by Nancy Zafris. Judy shared a passage from The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr.
2009-02-2600 min