KPFA - Cover to Cover: Jovelyn's Bistro
Cover to Cover: Jovelyn’s Bistro is a gathering place for a bouquet of artist: writers, musicians, performers, and dreamers.
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Author :Roberta Samuels’ join Cover to Cover: Jovelyn’s Bistro (opens the original)
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In Lost: An Ancient Artifact Adrift In Sarasota Bay, an award-winning mystery, Barbara Waldheim returns from France with her partner, Sam, to find her home in disarray due to a deceitful renter and unexpectedly becomes involved in an ICE investigation, a terrorist financing scheme and insider dealings at the art museum. Can the unwitting couple help save an important relic for posterity-and shed new light on the Middle East's little-known contribution to the course of Western civilization? Autho
Cover to Cover: Jovelyn’s Bistro – Welcomes Author: Lean De Forest (opens the original)
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Leah De Forest was born in Geelong, Australia, and lives in Boston. Her debut novel, ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW, is coming 9/15/26 from Betty, an imprint of WTAW Press. Her fiction, essays and criticism have appeared in Griffith Review, CRAFT Literary, Ohio University’s Quarter After Eight, Bodega Magazine, Fiction Writers Review, LEON Literary Review, Monash University’s Verge 2020, Kill Your Darlings, Eureka Street, Overland, and The Canberra Times. She serves as a senior editor at Bloom, a li
Cover to Cover: Jovelyn’s Bistro, in conversation with Debra Levine, Author of: Jazzed (opens the original)
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“Gay, sinewy and exotic, with nerves of steel, Jack Cole never quite fit in or became accurately recognized by the industry, but he was the driving force behind so much of Broadway’s and Hollywood’s dancing brilliance back in the glory days. Debra Levine peels back the dance veils and other layers with extraordinary reporting and insight, to reveal a groundbreaking creator who had complicated associations with Gwen Verdon, Gene Kelly and dozens of other artistic collaborators who brought jazz to
Cover to Cover: Welcomes Greg Payton into Jovelyn’s Bistro’s (opens the original)
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“Peace Warrior: How I Escaped the Prison of Anger” details the transformation of author Greg Payton. It is a powerful account of his journey as a young African-American from the Projects drafted into the Vietnam War, his subsequent court-martial, and his survival of a military stockade riot. After battling post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, and homelessness upon his return home, Payton transformed his life and became an international peacemaker who has worked alongside figures such as Ar
Cover to Cover: Jovelyn’s Bistro Welcomes Mystery Writer HN Hirsch (opens the original)
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His new book, Bonds: A Bob & Marcus Mystery, is a high-stakes legal drama grounded in the relationships that endure under pressure: long-term partnerships, close friendships and the loyalties that bind them together. Bonds, the fifth installment in Hirsch’s acclaimed Bob and Marcus mystery series, finds attorney Bob Abramson preparing to accept a powerful new role as chief assistant district attorney in San Diego when a close friend is accused of murder. The victim is a Navy surgeon. The prosecu
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