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  A Reluctant Spy, follows a grieving widow who, on the day of her husband’s funeral, is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a dark-web cybercrime network. Kirkus Reviews called it “a captivating story of a woman who untangles mysteries and comes to know the importance of self-worth,” The post Jovelyn Bistro, Welcomes Author; Roselyn Teukolsky, appeared first on KPFA.

  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...

  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...

“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 asso...

“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 tra...

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 attor...

At a time when youth mental health, trauma and suicide prevention are dominating national conversations, Baltimore rapper Tashera “T” Savage is using film to tell a story rarely explored with this level of honesty. The upcoming biopic based on Tashera’s life, Thru the Eyes of the Hustler’s Daughter, confronts mental health, inherited trauma and the difficult, often fragile process of breaking cycl...

Jovelyn of Jovelyn’s Bistro Welcomes: Sebastian Tillinger to discuss his memoir The Ferris Wheel Was Broken: A Love Letter to Los Angeles. Without slick editing, the book is written in the voice of the author’s 25-year-old self. Actor, author, and artist Sebastian Tillinger, son of acclaimed Broadway director John Tillinger and actress/director Dorothy Lyman (All My Children, Mama’s Family), bottl...

Join us in conversation as we discuss “The Missing Child” Author Paul O’ Connor. A Sealed Envelope Sent Him Searching: Former Journalism Professor Reconstructs Mother’s Hidden Past Most families possess stories that were never fully told. Retired journalist and former journalism professor Paul T. O’Connor believes many of those stories can still be recovered and transformed into fascinating family...

Mario Hodge, Comedian, Actor in conversation with host Jovelyn Richards : Same Stuff, Different day. At the center of the story is a comedian navigating parenthood, complicated relationships, housing insecurity, financial hardship, and the realities of surviving in one of the nation’s most expensive regions. Through humor, music, and authentic storytelling, the production shines a light on issues...

Cover to Cover: Jovelyn’s Bistro welcomes art historian and biographer Salomon Grimberg for a conversation on his new book, Jacqueline Lamba: The Forgotten Surrealist. Grimberg—renowned for his scholarship on Frida Kahlo and the Surrealist movement—unearths the life, art, and inner world of Lamba, an artist too often eclipsed by the mythology surrounding André Breton. This interview explores Lamba...

In a new romance novel, Jack In Love, set in late 1960s New York City, author Roberta Grimes raises some key issues that women had to confront back then — and still do even today, such as making choices about marriage vs a career, understanding the role of wealth and financial security in a relationship, and defining whether to adhere to societal norms or not. It is a book about love, womanhood, a...

RW Fields is an 82 years old author who proves that creativity, humor, and new adventures do not have an expiration date. His book Mullet Man is a heartfelt and humorous story that explores friendship, reinvention, and embracing who you are at every stage of life. It’s a story that reminds readers that getting older doesn’t mean life gets smaller — sometimes it gets more interesting, more meaningf...

Cover to Cover: Jovelyn’s Bistro, welcomes Salomon Grimberg. Grimberg is an art historian, psychiatrist, and biographer based in Dallas, Texas. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Frida Kahlo and the Surrealist movement, with a distinguished body of scholarship that brings both rigorous and deep psychological insight to the lives of modern art’s most complex figur...

  Cynthia Schumacher is well into her 90’s and is still writing and publishing books at a solid pace. After retiring as a teacher of 33 years, and then serving as an education advocate, she took to penning three children’s books and seven collections of stirring poetry. Now, at age 97, she has released her first book of short stories, Prose Pizza. “I try to shed light on the hidden, amazing layers...

On today’s show, Amy Friedman and Victor Trille discuss the release of the latest Anthology: A Secret Cord written by young adults of The Pathfinder Network. The Pathfinders Network provides justice-system-impacted individuals and families the tools and support they need to be safe and to thrive in their communities. Join me in Jovelyn’s Bistro to end April Poetry month and celebrate the voices of...

     Novelist P.K. Edgewater continues with his debut novel: Passages The post Cover to Cover – Jovelyn’s Bistro Guest P.K. Edgewater appeared first on KPFA.

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