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Hopeton Hay

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Host of Diverse Voices Book Review Podcast interviewing an eclectic array of authors of fiction & nonfiction since 2009.

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  • Jul 28, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Hopeton Hay

    Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed John Vercher, author of the novel DEVIL IS FINE. The novel is described by its publisher: "Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of selling the land immediately and moving on.

  • Jul 21, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Hopeton Hay

    Diverse Voices Book Review contributor Amanda Moore interviewed, Renee Watson, the author of skin & bones. Through a series of profound vignettes, her new novel tells the story of a woman who tries to live and thrive in a world that never truly sees the beauty that she has learned to love within herself.  Renée Watson is also the author of the young adult novel, PIERCING ME TOGETHER, which received a Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor.

  • Jul 17, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Hopeton Hay

    Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Larry Tye, author of THE JAZZMEN: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. From the publisher: This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America..

  • Jul 3, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Hopeton Hay

    In 2014, Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Danielle Allen about her newly published book, OUR DECLARATION: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. Featured on the front page of the New York Times, her book publisher writes in its description of the book: "Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text.

  • Jun 29, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Hopeton Hay

    Diverse Voices Book Review host interviewed Walter Mosley about his latest Easy Rawlins novel, FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE. Set in 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world… and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case.

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22 Apr 25

Check out my interview w/ @DrForestIssac https://t.co/ZKvicG5Lle

Hopeton Hay
Hopeton Hay @diversebookshay
12 Dec 24

Leonard Pitts Jr. discusses his new novel on Diverse Voices Book Review #blackauthors #blackhistory https://t.co/IIawPsX3nx

Hopeton Hay
Hopeton Hay @diversebookshay
7 Dec 24

Check out my interview with Rachel Howzell Hall, author of The Last One. It’s a blast! Available on Apple Podcasts https://t.co/KBV9izvfjH, Spotify https://t.co/YHmfSiP9iW, or podcast platform of your choice under Hopeton Hay Podcasts. #romantasy #fantasy #books #diversebooks https://t.co/I7OhuuRZw0