Read Beat (...and repeat)

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Read Beat (...and repeat)

If you're like me, you like to know things but how much time to invest? That's the question. Here's the answer: Read Beat--Interviews with authors of new releases. These aren't book reviews but short (about 25-30 minutes on the average) chats with folks that usually have taken a lot of time to research a topic, enough to write a book about it. Hopefully, there's a topic or two that interests you. I try to come up with subjects that fascinate me or I need to know more about. Hopefully, listeners will agree. I'm Steve Tarter, former reporter for the Peoria Journal Star and a contributor to WCBU-FM, the Peoria public radio outlet, from 20202 to 2024. I post regularly on stevetarter.substack.com. 

  1. “The Uncomfortable Truth About Money” by Paul Podolsky

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    “The Uncomfortable Truth About Money” by Paul Podolsky

    Books that seek to help you understand the world of finance probably aren’t viewed as the most engaging of literary categories. Consumers, after all, hold that book in their hands for a specific reason: to understand policy rates better or inflation-linked bonds not for a ripsnorting reading adventure.Paul Podolsky, a former equity partner at Bridgewater Associates and the founder and CIO of Kate Capital, an investment management firm, however, has tried to make his advice on the subject acce...

    29 min
  2. "Most Honorable Son" by Gregg Jones

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    "Most Honorable Son" by Gregg Jones

    You’re a Japanese American living in Nebraska in 1941. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, sending the United States into war. What do you do?At 24 when war broke out, Nebraskan Ben Kuroki enlisted to fight for his country. Ben joined the Army Air Force along with his brother. In Most Honorable Son by Gregg Jones, Kuroki’s unique wartime experience is related.Ben Kuroki not only flew a staggering 58 combat missions as a gunner on Army Air Force bombers but battled racism and resentment on ...

    37 min
  3. "Carl Barks' Duck" by Peter Schilling Jr.

    -6 J

    "Carl Barks' Duck" by Peter Schilling Jr.

    So many images represent Walt Disney. There’s that mouse, of course, and all those movies. There’s so much music, countless cartoons, and aisles of toys Once there were even comic books. Characters like Donald Duck operated across many different media. We know about the cartoons starring an exasperated duck with a funny voice. But there was also an adventure series with Donald, his nephews, and a miserly Uncle Scrooge in comic books created by cartoonist Carl Barks.Barks, who worked for Disne...

    33 min
  4. "Pickleballers" by Ilana Long

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    "Pickleballers" by Ilana Long

    Pickleball has become the fastest-growing sport in America. Ilana Long, author of Pickleballers, a debut romantic comedy set in Seattle, noted that as many as 50 million individuals are expected to play the sport in 2024.The game, which Long calls multigenerational, serves as the backdrop for a story about a young woman who, on the rebound of a breakup, finds solace and redemption on the pickleball court.Long, who said the sport gave her life during the pandemic, says she's met folks on the p...

    19 min
  5. "Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior" by David Hone

    6 NOV.

    "Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior" by David Hone

    Whenever the Jurassic Park/World franchise launches another movie entry, the national media runs to quote “a dinosaur guy” for a professional analysis. One of the guys they call is David Hone, a zoologist at Queen Mary University in London and the author of How Fast Did T.rex Run? and the Tyrannosaur Chronicles.Hone’s latest book, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior (Princeton University Press), seeks to provide answers as to how dinosaurs may have moved, fed, grew, and reproduced.Deducing dinosaur ...

    21 min
  6. "In the Shadow of the Big Top" by Maureen Brunsdale

    27 OCT.

    "In the Shadow of the Big Top" by Maureen Brunsdale

    A plaque standing in downtown Bloomington, Ill. pays tribute to that city’s circus heritage:“In the era before movies, television, and the internet, it was the circus that entertained us…For more than 80 years, spanning the 1870s until the 1950s, countless numbers of brave Bloomington men and women risked their lives to entertain massive crowds by performing aerial tricks high up on the flying trapeze.” After two local brothers, Howard and Fred Green installed a trapeze rigging in a Bloo...

    28 min
  7. "Onward to Chicago" by Larry M. McClellan

    22 OCT.

    "Onward to Chicago" by Larry M. McClellan

    Decades before the Civil War, Illinois meant freedom for those seeking to escape slavery. Larry McClellan’s Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois is his third book exploring the phenomenon known as the Underground Railroad.McClellan, a resident of Crete, Illinois, some 35 miles south of Chicago, served as a professor of sociology at Governors State University, the Chicago school he helped found 54 years ago.“It was neither underground n...

    28 min
  8. Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Fantasy of American Comics" by Daniel Worden

    9 OCT.

    Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Fantasy of American Comics" by Daniel Worden

    The comics page has long been a place for cars and energy. Comic strips like Otto Auto, Toonerville Folks, and Gasoline Alley related a nation that happily motored about in a car-centric world.Daniel Worden, an art professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, relates that history in Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics.“This book analyzes how comics represented this transition to fossil fuels from the late nineteenth century to the present, a transition that s...

    29 min
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If you're like me, you like to know things but how much time to invest? That's the question. Here's the answer: Read Beat--Interviews with authors of new releases. These aren't book reviews but short (about 25-30 minutes on the average) chats with folks that usually have taken a lot of time to research a topic, enough to write a book about it. Hopefully, there's a topic or two that interests you. I try to come up with subjects that fascinate me or I need to know more about. Hopefully, listeners will agree. I'm Steve Tarter, former reporter for the Peoria Journal Star and a contributor to WCBU-FM, the Peoria public radio outlet, from 20202 to 2024. I post regularly on stevetarter.substack.com. 

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