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Author Tess Gerritsen is the writer behind the characters on TNT’s hit series, Rizzoli & Isles.

Barbara Gray speaks with Guy Johnson, the only son of the late poet Maya Angelou, who talks about his mother and the book Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou which includes some of his mother’s most powerful sayings that, until now, were just for her family.

Roberta Schultz has a review of the new book from the University Press of Kentucky, The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

Cincinnati author Mary Curran Hackett’s latest book, Proof of Angels, is a novel with a distinctly personal narrative, loosely based on her own struggles with disease and mental illness. She joins our Barbara Gray for a conversation about the cathartic nature of writing and some of the characters readers will encounter in the book.

Waynesville, Ohio poet Grace Curtis talks with Barbara Gray about her new book, The Shape of a Box (from Dos Madres Press), and her personal, lyrical writing.