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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.
Episodes
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 167: January Crime Fiction Recommendations
We had our crime fiction picks of the month discussion for January 2022 with Hopeton Hay and his regular partners in crime Molly Odintz, Senior Editor of…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 166: Espionage, Satire, & Plight of Women in High-Tech Drives Novel
My guest on Diverse Voices Book Review is Kathy Wang, author of the novel IMPOSTER SYNDROME. With its two female protagonists, one who is a Russian immigrant…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 165: MLK Discussion - LETTERS TO MARTIN: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
The podcast is from the Diverse Voices Book Review live Zoom event, Meditations on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy: A Conversation with Dr. Randal Maurice…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 164: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
In her new book READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND, Farah Jasmine Griffinshares her stories of growing up in Philadelphia where love of black literature and the…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 163: Helene Wecker Discusses THE HIDDEN PALACE, Sequel to Her Best-Selling Novel THE GOLEM AND THE GINNI
My guest is Helene Wecker, author of the novel THE HIDDEN PALACE. THE HIDDEN PALACE is a follow up to Wecker's 2013 debut novel, THE GOLEM AND THE GINNI. It…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 162: Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe
My guest is Verena Krebs, author of Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. Her book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 161: Savala Nolan Writes About Race, Gender, and the Body in Essay Collection
My guest is Savala Nolan, author of DON’T LET IT GET YOU DOWN a provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 160: WAKING FROM THE DREAM: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In WAKING FROM THE DREAM, David L. Chappell provides a sweeping history of the fight to keep the civil rights movement alive following Martin Luther King…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 159: Authors of Historical Novel About JP Morgan Librarian Passed for White
My guests are Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, co-authors of THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, a remarkable historical novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 158: THE TYRANNY OF MERITOCRACY: An Interview with the Late Civil Right Rights Lawyer Lani Guinier from 2015
Civil Rights trailblazer and legal scholar Lani Guinier died on January 7, 2022 at the age of 71. In her honor I'm posting an interview I did with her in 2015…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 157: Crime Fiction Picks of the Year 2021
My partners in crime, Molly Odintz, Senior Editor of CrimeReads.com and Scott Montgomery, Crime Fiction Coordinator for BookPeople, joined me to discuss our…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 156: Economic Perspectives Podcast: Former President of Black Accountants Discusses Going From Corporate America To Entrepreneurship
Roger Davis launched his financial services business while still working for Fortune 500 Company 3M in Austin. As the former president of the Austin Cen-Tex…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 155: Crime Fiction Picks for October
CrimeReads.com senior editor Molly Odintz and BookPeople crime fiction coordinator Scott Montgomery join me for a discussion of our crime fiction picks of the…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 154: Cadwell Turnbull: What If Monsters of Folklore Were Among Us and Oppressed?
My guest is Cadwell Turnbull, author of the novel NO GODS, NO MONSTERS. In Turnbull’s second, science fiction/fantasy novel, we learn that many of the…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 153: Edgar Villanueva: Reimagining Philanthropy To Better Serve People of Color
In DECOLONIZING WEALTH, philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva critiques the philanthropy and finance industries for mirroring colonial and slave plantation…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 152: Economic Perspectives - Roger Davis Discusses Upcoming Annual Financial Fitness Seminar in Austin
Roger Davis, the Financial Fitness Committee Chair of the National Association of Black Accountants Austin Cen-Tex Chapter, discussed its 10th Annual Financial…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 151: JUSTICE DEFERRED: Race and the Supreme Court | Diverse Voices Book Review
Diverse Voices Book Review guests are historian Orville Vernon Burton and civil rights lawyer Armand Derfner, co-authors of JUSTICE DEFERRED: Race and the…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 150: Diverse Voices Book Review - Heather Hurwitz Discusses Lessons Learned From The Occupy Movement
My guest is Heather McKee, author of ARE WE THE 99%? The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality. September 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 149: Diverse Voices Book Review - Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
My guest is Robert S. Levine, author of THE FAILED PROMISE: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. In the book he provides…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 148: Diverse Voices Book Review - James Lee Burke Discusses Latest Crime Novel ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN
My guest is James Lee Burke, author of the novel ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN. Set in Colorado in 1962, Burke’s novel examines good and evil and the gray area in…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 147: Diverse Voices Book Review - Parker Bilal Crime Novel WHITEHAVENS
My guest is Parker Bilal, author of the crime novel, WHITEHAVENS. In WHITEHAVENS, a hit man for a feared crime family is sent to kill the family’s former…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 146: Diverse Voices Book Review - Sonia Hernández and John Morán González Discuss Violence on US-Mexico Border In Early 1900s
My guests are Sonia Hernández and John Morán González, co-editors of REVERBERATIONS OF RACIAL VIOLENCE: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 145: MacArthur Fellow Monica Munoz Martinez 2018 Interview About Her Book THE INJUSTICE NEVER LEAVES YOU: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Monica Muñoz Martinez, an award winning author, teacher, and public historian, was named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. In November of 2018 I interviewed her about…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 144: Diverse Voices Book Review - S. A. Cosby Interview Part 2 of 2
In SA Cosby’s latest novel, RAZORBLADE Tears, has the feel of a buddy cop movie in the vain of Lethal WElcome, but in this case the main characters are two…
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Episode 143: Diverse Voices Book Review - S. A. Cosby Interview Part 1
In S. A. Cosby’s latest novel, RAZORBLADE Tears, has the feel of a buddy cop movie in the vain of Lethal WElcome, but in this case the main characters are two…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 142: Lonestar Links Sponsor $etup for $uccess $ummit May 22
The Lonestar Links Texas Chapter is hosting a virtual event to build awareness and provide education to assist in building generational wealth in the African…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 141: A Novel About Faith and A Miracle
Gar Anthony Haywood is an award winning crime novelist, but his latest novel, IN THINGS UNSEEN, departs from the genre with the tale of a miracle. It’s about a…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 140: African-American Women Write On Race, Culture, And Community
Lifelong long friends Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda Lloyd have collaborated as co-editors to publish MEETING AT THE TABLE: African-American Women Write On Race…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 139: The Legacy of Jackie Robinson
The book 42 TODAY: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, is a collection of essays written by filmmakers, writers, journalists, scholars, and activists reflecting on…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 138: Diverse Scholars Speak Truth to Power
Welcome to this special edition of KAZI Book Review. Today we are featuring the Diverse Scholars Speaking Truth to Power panel discussion from the Fifth Annual…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 137: REVOLUTION OR DEATH: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver shot to fame as the spokesperson for the Black Panther Party and with the publication of his memoir in 1968, SOUL ON ICE. Charismatic…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 136: Austin Black Playwrights Discuss Commitment to the Community
Playwrights Jeanette W. Hill and Lisa B. Thompson discussed creative activism on the panel Black Playwrights: Art As Service To The Community panel at the…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 135: Naima Coster Novel Explores Integration, Race, and Identity
In the new novel WHAT’S MINE AND YOURS, author Naima Coster explores the intersection of race, lost dreams, family relationships, and trauma through the lives…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 134: Diverse Literary Voices of Texas Promising Writers of Color Panel
At my Fifth Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas on January 30, we featured a panel with three Austin writers reading from their literary…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 134: Novelist Explores Lives of Two Blacks in Early 20th Century Chicago
Set in Chicago in the early 20th century, THE RIB KING, Ladee Hubbard's new novel, presents the divergent paths of two black servants who have been deeply…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 133: Austin College Students Reading Their Literary Work
At the Fifth Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas students Vanessa Aguirre from The University of Texas at Austin, Vanessa Rose from Austin…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 132: Texas Novelist Explores Asian Family Experience in Dallas
Simon Han's debut novel, NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED, is about an immigrant Chinese American family trying to fit in with each other and fit into the…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 131: Michael Holley Discusses His Book About Boston Celtics BIG THREE
If you are a fan of the NBA, then you remember THE BIG THREE, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen who won the Boston Celtics a championship in 2008, the…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 130: Nikki Giovanni Reading Poetry and Prose
Legendary poet Nikki Giovanni was the honored guest at at the Fifth Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas, a live Zoom event on January 30…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 129: Autobiography of Legendary Georgetown Coach John Thompson
I CAME AS A SHADOW is the autobiography of John Thompson, the legendary former Georgetown University basketball coach, who died in September of 2020. Thompson…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 128: Favorite Crime Novels of 2020
Scott Montgomery, Crime Fiction Coordinator for BookPeople, and Molly Odintz, Senior Editor of CrimeReads, joined for a discussion of our favorite crime novels…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 127: Novel Explores Impact of Cuban Revolution on Cuban American Family
Daniel José Older’s novel, THE BOOK OF LOST SAINTS, explores the lasting emotional trauma of the Cuban Revolution on a Cuban American family living in a New…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 127: Novel Features Black Private Investigator in Detroit
LIVES LAID AWAY is Stephen Mack Jones's second novel featuring ex Detroit police detective August Snow. In LIVES LAID AWAY, Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 126: Nikki Giovanni Discusses Her Latest Book
For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, she has published a new book of poetry and…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 126: Austin Writers Amanda Moore and Gina E. Springer Shirley Discuss Novels in Progress
Austin writers Amanda Moore and Gina E. Springer Shirley are both working on their first novels with female protagonists. In Moore’s novel, her protagonist is…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 125: Role of Historians Providing Justification for British Imperialism
In TIME’S MONSTER, historian Priya Satia examines how British historians evolved from being policy makers providing ethical justification for the British…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 124: Debut Novel Explores Class and Self Reinvention
Erik Dussere’s debut novel, THE WEST HOUSE, explores class, family lineage, and self reinvention in 1993 Connecticut with a mystery at its center. The 22 year…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 123: Historians, Journalist and Civil Rights Leader Discuss Social Justice
At the Fourth Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas: Protests and Civil Rights on Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on Zoom, the panelists…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 122: In Conversation with Authors Nicky Drayden, Meng Jin, Richard Z. Santos, and Rion Amilcar Scott,
What are the challenges of writing and publishing the first novel, your second book or your third book? With the collection of writers on this podcast from a…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 121: Reading from Unpublished Work by Austin Community College Former Creative Writing Students
On this special edition of KAZI Book Review we are featuring former Austin Community College (ACC) creative writing students reading from their unpublished…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 120: Defending Free Speech: Suzanne Nossel, author of DARE TO SPEAK
In DARE TO SPEAK, Suzanne Nossel,, delivers a guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 120: Shennette Garrett-Scott, author of BANKING ON FREEDOM: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
BANKING ON FREEDOM is the first full-length history of finance capitalism that centers black women and the banking institutions and networks they built from…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 119: 2014 Interview with Reverend Raphael Warnock (Reelected to Senate December 6, 2022) On His 2013 Book on Black Theology
In December of 2013, Senator Raphael Warnock, who then was senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, published his first book, THE…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 118: Part 2: Black-Owned Seafood Business
This is part two of my interview with Karl Turner, president of A La Care Specialty Foods. Karl has been selling packaged seafood products across the United…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsEpisode 117: CUBAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF BLACK INSURRECTION
In Matthew Pettway’s book, CUBAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF BLACK INSURRECTION He reveals how Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés used…
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Austin Emerging Authors Part 2
On part 2 of this special edition of KAZI Book Review we are featuring Austin area emerging writers Drew Carpenter, Kendra Christel, Jacob Grovey, and Chaitali…
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Austin Emerging Authors Readings Part 1
On this special edition of KAZI Book Review we are featuring Austin area emerging writers Jennifer Hritz, Jedah Mayberry, Ursula Pike, and Richard Z. Santos…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsJessica Luther & Kavitha A. Davidson's book, LOVING SPORTS WHEN THEY DON'T LOVE YOU BACK
Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson's new book, LOVING SPORTS WHEN THEY DON'T LOVE YOU BACK, is an exploration by and for conscientious and conflicted…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsVietnam War Casualties Haunt Florida Families in Debut Novel
The specter of the Vietnam War looms large in Karin Cecile Davidson's debut novel, Sybelia Drive. Sybelia Drive centers on a young girl growing up in Central…
Hopeton Hay PodcastsBlack-Owned Seafood Business Overcomes Challenges
Karl Turner, president of A La Care Specialty Foods, has been selling packaged seafood products across the United States since 2003. Based in the New Orleans…