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    Debut Novel From Tulane Law Grad Shelby Tucker Satirzes International Financial Fraud

    Debut Novel From Tulane Law Grad Shelby Tucker Satirzes International Financial Fraud

    FromThe Sound of Books

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    Debut Novel From Tulane Law Grad Shelby Tucker Satirzes International Financial Fraud

    FromThe Sound of Books

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    Length:
    5 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 25, 2012
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Writer Shelby Tucker's debut novel Client Service is a satire inspired by a major mutual-fund swindle of the 1960s. It follows three well received non-fiction books by Shelby Tucker based on his treks through Asia and Africa. WWNO's Fred Kasten has more...
    Released:
    Nov 25, 2012
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (20)

    Each Wednesday morning on The Sound of Books award-winning producer and interviewer Fred Kasten talks to the author — or occasionally editor — of a new or recently-published book that Fred judges to be both well written and of likely interest to WWNO listeners. Writers covered on The Sound of Books range from such internationally acclaimed authors as Pulitzer Prize- and MacArthur Grant-winning fiction writer Junot Diaz — and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey — to emerging writers worthy of wider recognition, such as novelists Skip Horack and Amor Towles. The Sound of Books covers work in a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.