Today's Guest: Bob Delaney, NBA referee, New Jersey State Trooper, author, Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob with Dave Scheiber Bob Delaney has lived not one but two enviable and intimidating lives—and he’s nowhere near done, yet. In his first career, Delaney was a New Jersey State Trooper who went undercover for three years to... Continue Reading →
Novelist Kamran Pasha tells of the Mother of the Believers! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Kamran Pasha, novelist, Mother of the Believers. Kamran Pasha is a brave man. He knows that Sherry Jones’ book, The Jewel of Medina—about the birth of Islam—lost its initial publisher in 2008 because of the ruckus it stirred up. He knows that filmmaker Moustapha Akkad—who created the 1977 movie The Messenger, about... Continue Reading →
Career counselor admits Life’s A Bitch, Work’s A Bitch! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Andrea Kay, author, Life's a Bitch and Then You Change Careers: 9 Steps to Get You Out of Your Funk & on to Your Future   It sucks to be unemployed right now and, strangely, it’s not much more comforting to be employed, is it? This seems like an opportune time to talk... Continue Reading →
Cold, wet respect at last for The History of the Snowman! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bob Eckstein, author, The History of the Snowman My guest today is Bob Eckstein, author of The History of the Snowman and a humor columnist and cartoonist. But first, I’d like to set the tone for this interview by reading from a poem that Bob found on a needlepoint throw pillow sold... Continue Reading →
Lassie! Timmy’s in the Well! And other Jon Provost TV tales! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Jon Provost, animal activist, actor, "Lassie" I’ve never liked dog-earing pages – you know, when you’re reading a book and you fold back the corner of a page to mark your place, or because there was something interesting on the page to which you’d like to return? Well, I’ve never dog-eared a... Continue Reading →
Miami lawyer James Grippando on his debut novel, The Pardon! INTERVIEW
Originally published in Pinellas County Review, January 1995 Lawyers. Write one story for the college law review and for the rest of their careers they plan to write the Great American Novel. And for every one who finally gives up that dream, along comes a Scott Turow or John Grisham to inspire another generation of... Continue Reading →