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George Ella Lyon, Literary Ambassador

On our first web episode, we talk with Jay McCoy, general manager of Lexington's Morris Book Shop about newly-minted Kentucky poet laureate George Ella Lyon, a novel with a soundtrack, and another title described by one reviewer as "a book that comes at you like doom."

Books Reviewed:

What Forest Knows - George Ella Lyon

Mosquitoland - David Arnold

Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

All books available at Morris Book Shop.

Josh James fell in love with college radio at Western Kentucky University's student station, New Rock 92 (now Revolution 91.7). After working as a DJ and program director, he knew he wanted to come home to Lexington and try his hand in public radio.