Hopeton Hay Podcasts

Hopeton Hay Podcasts is the founder, producer, and host of Diverse Voices Book Review (formerly known as KAZI Book Review) which features interviews with a wide range of culturally diverse authors of recently published fiction and nonfiction, and Economic Perspectives, an audio interview show featuring discussions on finance, economic, and small businesses and policies.

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Episode 248: Afrofuturism Book and Exhibition Explores Connection to Black Empowerment

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Kevin Strait and Kinshasha Holman Conwill, co-editors of AFROFUTURISM: A History of Black Futures . The book is based on the exhibition of the same name at the National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. The exhibition, according to its web site “immerses visitors in a conversation that reimagines, reinterprets and reclaims the past and present for a more empowering future for African Americans.” Kevin Strait...

Aug 02, 2023•40 min•Ep. 248

Episode 247: Race, Justice, & Faith Are Key Themes in Latest S.A. Cosby Novel

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed S.A. Cosby, author of the novel ALL THE SINNERS BLEED, published June 2023. In the novel, the first Black sheriff of a small town in Virginia responds to a school shooting but discovers there are even more sinister town secrets and a serial killer on the loose. Cosby said in our interview that ALL THE SINNERS BLEED was his attempt to talk about justice, race, and violence in the face of evil, and faith. With faith, he wanted to explore how ...

Jul 23, 2023•38 min•Ep. 247

Episode 246: Tananarive Due Stories Aim To Scare

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Tananarive Due , author of THE WISHING POOL And Other Stories (April 2023). Due's second collection of stories includes offerings of horror, science fiction, and suspense. In the interview Due discussed how she focuses on scaring herself when writing her stories. We also conversed about how the roots of many of her stories come from personal or family experiences. Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media : Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreview...

Jul 16, 2023•49 min•Ep. 246

Episode 245: Talking Books and Texas Book Festival With Literary Director Hannah Gabel

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Hannah Gabel, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival (TBF). Gabel, who joined TBF in March of 2023, discussed the process for selecting authors for the festival which is being held November 11 -12. She also shared some of her favorite books including BABEL by R. F. Kuong and THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY by Brendan Slocumb, and we also talked about her popular Instagram account bookmarkparty . Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media : Faceboo...

Jul 09, 2023•40 min•Ep. 245

Episode 244: Ivy Pochoda's Novel Sing Her Down Explores the Darkness of It

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Ivy Pochoda, author of the new novel SING HER DOWN . As described on her web site, "SING HER DOWN is a spellbinding thriller setting two indelible women on a path to certain destruction and an epic, stunning showdown." Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media : Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreview Instagram - @diverse_voices_book_review Twitter - @diversebookshay Email: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.com Web site : https://diversevoicesbookrevie...

Jun 26, 2023•39 min•Ep. 244

Episode 243: Private Investigator IQ Races to Save Girlfriend In Latest Joe Ide Novel

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Joe Ide, author of FIXIT , his latest crime novel featuring private investigator Isaiah Qunitabe, better known as IQ. In the interview, Ide discussed the arc of his IQ character over six books, and how the character has changed because of the trauma he has experienced through his PI exploits. FIXIT also looks deeply at the story behind the antagonist, assassin Skip Hanson. Ide also explained why he introduced the character homicide detectiv...

May 29, 2023•42 min•Ep. 243

Episode 242: Author Silvia Rodriguez Vega Illuminates Impact of Separation Policy on Immigrant Children

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Silvia Rodriguez Vega, author of DRAWING DEPORTATION: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children . In the interview Vega discussed her experiences working with immigrant children in Arizona and California, how detention and deportation were recurrent themes in the art of the children in Arizona, and the dark history of separation policies in the U.S. Vega is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the De...

May 29, 2023•34 min•Ep. 242

Episode 241: Historical Novel By Cheryl Head Explores Murder in Segregated Birmingham

Diverse Voices Book Review contributor Amanda Moore interviewed Cheryl Head, author of the novel TIMES UNDOING . TIMES UNDOING is "a searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago—inspired by the author’s own family history." Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media : Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreview Instagram - @diverse_voices_book_review Twitter - @diversebookshay Emai...

May 13, 2023•34 min•Ep. 241

Episode 240: Farah Jasmine Griffin’s Essay Collection Explores Black Culture, Politics, and Literature

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of IN SEARCH OF BEAUTIFUL FREEDOM: New and Selected Essays . IN SEARCH OF BEAUTIFUL FREEDOM brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Black artists she esteems. Griffin is a professor of African American and African diaspora studies and English and comparative literature at Columbia Universit...

May 02, 2023•43 min•Ep. 240

Episode 239: Author of The Wandering Mind Reveals Distractions Have Even Challenged Monks

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Jamie Kreiner, author of THE WANDERING MIND: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction . "The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day ...

Apr 24, 2023•50 min•Ep. 239

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