Black Book Talk will not be heard today. Instead we'll hear an interview from the series Bookwaves. The guest is Edwidge Danticat, Haitian born writer, whose memoir "Brother, I'm Dying" was a National Book Award finalist in 2007. and is now out in paperback. She discusses her life and her career with host Richard Wolinsky.

Host Ed Goldberg interviews David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, a meditation on life, living and contemplating death. David Shields is the author of eight books, including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the Governor's Writers Award.

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Code Pink activist Diane Wilson about her memoir Holy Roller: Growing Up In the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out: or How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus. For Diane Wilson, childhood was populated by devils and ghosts, holy and otherwise. Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of the Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus describes Wilson’s Pentecostal upbringing in the tiny fishing town of Seadrift, Texas, where residents were ruled by poverty, labor, elaborate religious mores, and corrupt authorities. Despite that potentially oppressive litany, the book is a delight.

Host Ed Goldberg interviews local author Jill Kelly, whose memoir of alcoholism and recovery is called Sober Truths: the Making of an Honest Woman. Kelly's demons did not go quietly when she put the bottle down. Loneliness, anxiety, distrust of others-they were all still there. This memoir tells how she has learned to be with those demons and not drink, to let go of the jealous dramas of the past and embrace a new life of peace. Along the way, Kelly reinvents herself, becoming a visual artist, starting a successful business, and developing deep friendships and a satisfying spiritual life.

The guest is Patricia Smith Pollard, author of "When Your Church Becomes Your Party."

The witches are in. Melodie and Crystal talk about death and its holiday with special guest Melinda Bernert.

Celeste Carey interviews Enola Aird, founder of the intra-racial healing organization, Community Healing Network. They discuss how Black people throughout the African Diaspora can destroy the poisonous dehumanizing lie of Black inferiority. Enola and other community activists constructed a multifacted approach to reclaim and assert the accomplishments, wisdom and beauty that is the true heritage of people of the African Diaspora.

Learn more at: http://www.communityhealingnet.org/