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Upcoming Online Interviews

    Note: To enter the online room and participate in an event, simply click on the title of the event and follow the instructions.

  • Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:
      An Interview with Novelist Paul Malmont

      Paul Malmont's second novel, Jack London in Paradise, has just been published by Simon & Schuster. Set in Hollywood and Hawaii in 1915 and 1916, the final years of London's brief life, the novel explores this energetic, enigmatic author in a cinematic age. Jonah Raskin's review of the novel in the San Fransicso Chronicle notes that it "...offers a satisfying literary detective story that gets closer to the truth about the writer than any London biography."

      We'll chat with Paul about his new novel as well as his first novel, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel (an homage to pulp thrillers), Paul's own forays into cinema, and life in Brooklyn and Jersey.

      This interview is scheduled to last one hour.

      Host: TAP Information Services

      Location: OPAL Auditorium
  • Friday, January 30, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:
      An Interview with Author Gary Moore

      Gary Moore's book, Playing with the Enemy, tells the tale of his father, Gene Moore, who as a boy of 15 living near the small town of Sesser in southern Illinois, was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers. The bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WW II changed those plans. Gary played for the Navy baseball team in North Africa, then was reassigned to Lousiana to guard German captives from a U-Boat. Gene and his teammates taught the German POW's to play baseball. The book is being made into a major motion picture, with Gary's son starring as his grandfather.

      This interview is scheduled to last one hour.

      Host: TAP Information Services

      Location: OPAL Auditorium

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