Brown Bag Book Club

SDPB's Summer Book Series Features Live, In-Studio Interviews with Authors.

SDPB invites the public to join host Lori Walsh for the free, live Brown Bag Book Club, Mondays at noon (11 am MT), during SDPB’s In the Moment. The public is invited to be part of the live audience for the summer book series at SDPB’s Sioux Falls Studios, 601 N. Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, or listen on-air on SDPB Radio, or on-line at SDPB.org/listen. Access all previously recorded programs at SDPB.org/inthemoment.

Norma & Jerry Wilson.

Norma Wilson & Jerry Wilson Monday, July 1

The wife-and-husband writers from Vermillion discuss their latest books, including Norma’s poetry collection Frog Creek Road (Scurfpea, 2019) and Jerry’s novel Eden to Orizaba (Floricanto Press, 2018).

July 8 through July 10, In the Moment’s Brown Bag Book Club moves to Rapid City. The public is invited to be a part of the live, in-studio audience at SDPB’s Black Hills Studio, 415 Main Street, Rapid City.

Kevin Woster.

Sam Hurst.

Sam Hurst & Kevin Woster Monday, July 8

(SDPB Black Hills Studio) Hurst’s new book on living and working the land near 100th Meridian features journalist Kevin Woster.

Linda Hasselstrom.

Rick Kahler.

Linda Hasselstrom & Rick Kahler – Tuesday, July 9 (SDPB Black Hills Studio)

Hasselstrom, who lives on a ranch near Hermosa, SD, discusses writing and her book Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal (High Plains Press, 2017).

Kahler, a Rapid City-based financial planner, authored Wired for Wealth: Change the Money Mindsets That Keep You Trapped and Unleash Your Wealth Potential (Health Communications Inc., 2010).

Rachel Headley & Meg Manke.

Rachel Headley & Meg Manke Wednesday, July 10 (SDPB Black Hills Studio)

The authors of iX Leadership: Create High-Five Cultures and Guide Transformation (Find Your Way Press, 2018), discuss their theory of creating an Internal Experience (iX) to keep the best people, enable true innovation and creativity, and implement change quickly and effectively.

Melissa Johnson.

Melissa Johnson, Monday, July 15

The owner of family-owned, family-run Sioux Falls bakeshop Oh, My Cupcakes discusses her memoir/how-to book Finger in the Frosting: God's Hand on the Creation of My Cupcakes (REBL Publishing, 2015).

Sally Roesch Wagner gives a speech.

Sally Roesch Wagner Monday, July 22

Dr. Roesch Wagner is an author, lecturer and activist who founded the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center for Social Justice Dialogue in Fayetteville, NY. Her most recent book The Women’s Suffrage Movement, (Penguin Classics, 2019), contains a forward by Gloria Steinem. Forbes said, “Editor of this [...] intersectional anthology, Sally Roesch Wagner, highlights some monumental moments and untold stories from history that paved the way for women to hit the polls.”

Ruby Wilson.

Phyllis Cole-Dai.

Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby Wilson Monday, July 29

Cole-Dai wrote Beneath the Same Stars: A Novel of The 1862 U.S.-Dakota War (One Sky Press, 2018) and together with Ruby Wilson edited Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems (Grayson Books, 2017).

Jim Reese.

Jim Reese Monday, August 5

Reese is Associate Professor of English & Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton. He is the author of Really Happy (NYQ Books, 2014) and the forthcoming Bone Chalk (Stephen F. Austin University Press).

Dr. Rick Holm with SDPB's Lori Walsh.

Dr. Rick Holm Monday, August 12

Dr. Rick Holm hosts the TV program On Call with the Prairie Doc. Holm’s most recent book is Life’s Final Season: A Guide for Aging and Dying with Grace, which recounts dealing with his own pancreatic cancer and provides a unique perspective on how to prepare for and face the dying process with grace.