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.
Read Beat (...and repeat)
Latest Episodes
"The Last Ride" by Chris Enss
Your typical cowboy movie features stagecoaches, lots of horses, Indians, and a saloon with swinging doors. The women depicted are either saloon girls or school teachers, noted Chris Enss, who’s worked hard for the past 30 years to dispel that ...
"Forty Ways to Know a Tree" by Joan Maloof
Rose Maloof doesn’t think hugging a tree is silly. As the founder of the Old-Growth Forest Network, an organization that seeks to preserve the few old-growth forests we have left in this country, Maloof is passionate about trees.Today, l...
"When Women Ran Fifth Avenue" by Julie Satow
You remember the department store, that big, multi-level center of the downtown that offered everything from an afternoon tea to wedding attire?That's where Jack Benny went every year to find a tie for Don Wilson or something for Mary Li...
Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists" by Janet Zandy
Janet Zandy makes a case for art, both its appreciation and its execution, not just for the select few.In her book, Working-Class Girls Don’t Become Artists (University of Illinois Press), Zandy shares the exploits of nine artis...
"Woodlands of the Mind" by Kevin O'Donnell and Scott Honeycutt
Not all the lessons learned at college take place in the classroom. That’s one of the takeaways from Woodlands of the Mind: Rambles Through Campus Forests by Kevin O’Donnell and Scott Honeycutt.There’s more. You learn that state...
