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Podcast: Author2Author
Episode: Author2Author with John Michael Cummings
Description: Bill welcomes novelist, essayist and short story writer John Michael Cummings to the show. John is the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age novel "The Night I Freed John Brown", winner of The Paterson Prize and recommended by USA TODAY for Black History Month. His 2011 short story collection, "Ugly To Start With", was an IndieFab Award Finalist hailed by The Philadelphia Inquirer for its "sharp observation and surpassing grace." His last novel, Don't Forget Me, Bro was excerpted in The Chicago Tribune. Over the last twenty years, John's short stories and essays have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals...