The 2018 Hawaii Book & Music Festival Program (Book Worlds)
The Highlights of the Program. In this episode of Book Worlds, Richard Tillotson and Roger Jellinek share highlights from the 2018 Hawaii Book and Music Festival. The host for this episode is Roger Jellinek. The guest for this episode is Richard Tillotson. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm […]
Hawaii Book & Music Festival 2018 Preview (Book Worlds)
Hawai’i’s Favorite Festival. This week on Book Worlds, Jay and Roger share some highlights from the Hawaii Book & Music Festival program. The host for this episode was Roger Jellinek. The guest for this episode was Jay Fidell. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii […]
An Interview with Fred Hemmings (Book Worlds)
“LOCAL BOY: A Memoir of a Man in Hawaii”. Join Fred Hemmings and Roger Jellinek this week on Book Worlds for an insider’s view of the surfing and political cultures of Hawaii from before Statehood. The host for this episode was Roger Jellinek. The guest for this episode was Fred Hemmings. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live […]
Picture Bride, a Novel (Book Worlds)
The Epic Story of the Japanese in Hawaii. Michael Malaghan joins Roger Jellinek on Book Worlds to explore how novelists research and dramatize history? The host for this episode was Roger Jellinek. The guest for this episode was Michael Malaghan. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday […]
Love Games (Book Worlds)
Literary Fiction And Publishing. Lee Siegel studied comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley and fine arts at Columbia University. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford for a dissertation in the field of Sanskrit. He then was hired by the University of Hawaii as Professor of Religious Studies, where he taught […]
Sonia Patel: Two Novels In Young Adult Fiction
Y A author Sonia Patel appears on Book Worlds with Roger Jellinek to discuss her two novels: Rani Patel In Full Effect And Jaya & Rasa—A Love Story. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us […]
Yakudoshi: The Age Of Calamity
Chris McKinney’s seventh novel takes place in Hawaii’s underworld of lounge bars, drugs, gambling and crime. In Japan, people believe that there are years in a person’s life that are bad luck. For men, the worst is 41. It is yakudoshi. It is the age of calamity. Bruce Blanc, fresh off a nine-year prison jolt […]
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