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Read Beat (...and repeat)

Steve Tarter

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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306 episodes

  1. "Mega-Dams in World Literature" by Margaret Ziolkowski 24:52
  2. “Multitudes” by Karabi Acharya 21:58
  3. "When the Night Comes Knocking" by Katherine Daniel 18:38
  4. "Two Bottles of Water" by Janet Flaugher 22:02
  5. "Nature Spirituality and Environmental Crisis: Embracing a Sacred, Wounded Earth" by Roger Gottlieb 30:14
  6. "The Last Ride" by Chris Enss 29:04
  7. "Forty Ways to Know a Tree" by Joan Maloof 25:22
  8. "When Women Ran Fifth Avenue" by Julie Satow 20:57
  9. Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists" by Janet Zandy 21:11
  10. "Woodlands of the Mind" by Kevin O'Donnell and Scott Honeycutt 23:37
  11. "The Illinois Terminal Railroad: The Road of Personalized Services" by Dale Jenkins 23:23
  12. "Kentucky Barracuda" by Joe Goodbody 20:54
  13. “Agatha Christie: The Mother of the Cozy Mystery” by Nancy West 29:03
  14. "Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks & Gigs in the Age of Service Work?" by Annie McClanahan 25:10
  15. "The Adventures of Jelly Bean" by Amy Pollack 25:09
  16. "A Protest History of the United States" by Gloria Browne-Marshall 24:29
  17. "If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened" by Justin Glawe 32:20
  18. "Sugar Coated" by Marion Nestle and Lisa Sutherland 24:46
  19. "The Way Out: How To Overcome Toxic Polarization" by Peter Coleman 20:48
  20. "America Unfinished" Edited by Alexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel Charles 23:57
  21. "We Are Eating the Earth" by Michael Grunwald 29:02
  22. Interview with Bill Kemp, McLean County Museum of History 26:21
  23. "Dreamsville" by Jon Burlingame 28:13
  24. "Invasion of the Mind Snatchers" by Eric Burns 30:57
  25. "The Westerners" by Megan Kate Nelson 28:55
  26. America’s Downtowns—A conversation with Erik Reader 26:04
  27. “Stealing America” by Linford Fisher 32:03
  28. "Born Sick in the USA" by Stephen Bezruchka 32:11
  29. “America’s Hometown Movie Houses: Please Remain Standing” by Benita VanWinkle 31:03
  30. "A High Price for Freedom" by Clyde W. Ford 18:38
  31. “Disposing of Modernity” by Rebecca Graff 25:20
  32. “The Courtyard” by Alexa Morris and Benjamin Parket 22:50
  33. “The Devil’s Castle” by Susanne Paola Antonetta 28:48
  34. “Why Q Needs U” by Danny Bate 26:53
  35. “A Little Piece of Cuba” by Barbara Caver 24:20
  36. "Heartland" by Keith O'Brien 25:24
  37. “The Navigator’s Letter” by Jan Cress Dondi 27:39
  38. "Tigers Between Empires" by Jonathan Slaght 24:20
  39. "Boss Lincoln" by Matthew Pinsker 25:52
  40. “Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block” by Jesse Sutanto 24:21
  41. “The 100 Greatest Literary Characters” by James Plath, Gail Sinclair, and Kirk Curnutt 23:44
  42. “Last of the Titans” by Richard Vinen 27:19
  43. "CrimeReads" articles by Keith Roysdon 23:53
  44. "Making Democracy Count" by Ismar Volic 34:00
  45. “Winning the Earthquake” by Lorissa Rinehart 26:56
  46. "Show Trial" by Thomas Doherty 29:40
  47. "Road to Nowhere" by Emily Lieb 30:20
  48. "Vote with Your Phone" by Bradley Tusk 28:35
  49. "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling" by Danny Funt 31:53
  50. "Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World" by William Rankin 25:55