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Join us as Ocean House owner and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce speaks with New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow about his newest book, The Final Score. 
About the Author:
New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow has written twenty-one novels, including The Border, The Force, The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Winter of Frankie Machine and the highly acclaimed epics The Power of the Dog and The Cartel. The son of a sailor and a librarian, Winslow grew up with a love of books and storytelling in a small coastal Rhode Island town. He left at age seventeen to study journalism at the University of Nebraska, where he earned a degree in African Studies. While in college, he traveled to southern Africa, sparking a lifelong involvement with that continent.
Winslow’s travels took him to California, Idaho and Montana before he moved to New York City to become a writer, making his living as a movie theater manager and later a private investigator in Times Square – ‘before Mickey Mouse took it over’. He left to get a master’s degree in Military History and intended to go into the Foreign Service but instead joined a friend’s photographic safari firm in Kenya.  He led trips there as well as hiking expeditions in southwestern China, and later directed Shakespeare productions during summers in Oxford, England.
While bouncing back and forth between Asia, Africa, Europe and America, Winslow wrote his first novel, A Cool Breeze On The Underground, which was nominated for an Edgar Award. With a wife and young son, Winslow went back to investigative work, mostly in California, where he and his family lived in hotels for almost three years as he worked cases and became a trial consultant. A film and publishing deal for his novel The Death and Life of Bobby Z allowed Winslow to be full-time writer and settle in his beloved California, the setting for many of his books. Branching into television and film, Winslow, with his friend Shane Salerno, wrote a television series, UC/Undercover, and the two collaborated on the screenplay of his novel, Savages.
His novels have attracted the attention of filmmakers and actors such as Oliver Stone, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio.  Twentieth Century Fox has optioned his next novel about a NYPD cop as well as The Cartel and The Power of the Dog.  Earlier books Savages and The Death and Life of Bobby Z were made into films, too.
In addition to his novels, Winslow has published numerous short stories in anthologies and magazines such as Esquire, the LA Times Magazine and Playboy. His columns have appeared in the Vanity Fair, Vulture, Huffington Post, CNN Online, and other outlets.
Winslow is the recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award (Italy), the LA Times Book Prize, the Ian Fleming Silver Dagger (UK), The RBA Literary Prize (Spain) and many other prestigious awards.
He lives in California with his wife of thirty-one years.
About the Book:
In six all-new short novels written with the trademark literary style, trenchant wit, and incisive characterization that have made Don Winslow “America’s greatest living crime writer” (Providence Journal), this repeat New York Times bestselling author serves up a collection of tales sure to delight Winslow’s most devoted fans and first-time readers.
The multi-million-dollar casino heist is impossible—it can’t be done.  That’s what makes it irresistible to a legendary robber facing the rest of his life in prison for his “Final Score.” An ambitious, hard-working college-bound teenager has a side job delivering illegal booze to “The Sunday List” until a crooked cop, a seductive customer, and a fake guru threaten to end his dreams. Two wise guys tell each other a “True Story” over breakfast at a diner. It’s all bullshit and laughs until someone else has to pick up the check. An otherwise honest patrolman has to make an excruciating choice between his loyalty to the job and his love for a ne’er-do-well cousin in “The North Wing.” The entitled, substance-addicted movie star that surfer/PI Boone Daniels and his crew are hired to babysit in “The Lunch Break” is a problem. She also has a problem—someone wants her dead. Finally, the one terrible, momentary mistake that a devoted family man makes sends him to prison and on a “Collision” course between the man he wants to be and the killer he’s forced to become to survive.
With a foreword written by award-winning crime author Reed Farrel Coleman, The Final Score is a propulsive, perceptive, and deeply immersive collection of crime writing — the ultimate testament to Don Winslow's prowess as a living legend of the genre.
 
For more information about Don Winslow, visit donwinslow.com. To find out more about Deborah Goodrich Royce and her new release, Best Boy, along with information about the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
 

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Vocalist Cassandra Wilson from her 1993 Blue Note Records recording, titled “Blue Light ’Til Dawn.”

This week's program features Ballet RI and Kathleen Breen Combs, Artistic Executive Director. We discuss their upcoming performances and listen to music from the program, presented October 23rd, 24th & 25th at Moses Brown School and November 6th at The United Theater. For more information, you can go to www.balletri.org

In this week's WCRI Kids Hour, your host Jamie listens to music from Disney's Coco celebrating the Day of the Dead. We will also hear some beautiful classical music from Mexico and music from a 1998 video game with a Day of the Dead theme. We hope you enjoy!

This week's program features Musica Dolce with Paul Rosenbloom, Artistic Director. We discuss their upcoming concerts and listen to music from the program being presented on Sunday, November 1st at 2 PM at the Peace Dale Congregational Church. For more information, you can go to www.musicadolce.org

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Vocalist Cassandra Wilson from her 1988 PolyGram Records recording, titled “Blue Skies.”
 

In this episode of This Old Tree, Doug introduces us to London's Charlton House Mulberry. Did you know the British are mad about mulberries? A 415-year-old black mulberry tree stands at Charlton House & Gardens, the oldest specimen in London and a beloved landmark. Its story involves King James I and a courtier named Sir Adam Newton, the tutor to the King's eldest son, Henry. It also involves a government decree gone awry.

This week, Joe is featuring Trumpet Player Arturo Sandoval from his 1992 GRP Records recording, titled “I Remember Clifford.”

This week's program features the URI Guitar & Mandolin Festival with Adam Levin, Artistic Director. We discuss the concerts to be presented from October 18th to the 25th at several locations. The event will feature over a dozen performers. For more information, you can go to urigmfest.org
 

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Pianist Herbie Hancock from his 1965 Blue Note Records recording, titled “Maiden Voyage.”

This week's program features the CT Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Dr. John Dreslin, Music Director Emeritus. We discuss the upcoming event at Valley Regional High School in Deep River, CT, and listen to music from “Pirates of Penzance,” which will be performed on October 17th and 18th. For more information, you can call 860 554-1256 or go to www.CTGandS.org

Join us as Ocean House owner and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce has a conversation with featured authors Debra Curtis (Laws of Love and Logic) and Shannon Garvey (June Baby), who will be discussing (and signing) their novels. Jenna Bush Hager will be joining Debra and Shannon in conversation with Deborah!
About the Authors:
Debra Curtis is a retired professor of cultural anthropology at Salve Regina University, where she specialized in gender and sexuality. This is her first novel. She is the mother of grown-up twin girls and lives in Rhode Island with her husband. Her featured book is Laws of Love and Logic.
Shannon Garvey received her MFA from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught undergraduate classes. She has published short fiction in The Saturday Evening Post. She grew up in Rhode Island and now lives on the rocky New Hampshire coast. She researched June Baby during many years waiting tables in tourist towns and her time working on Block Island.
Jenna Bush Hager is the co-host of TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle and the founder of the wildly popular Read With Jenna book club. Since launching the club in 2019, she has selected 87 titles—52 of which have become New York Times bestsellers. In 2022, she launched her production company, Thousand Voices, in partnership with NBCUniversal’s Universal Studio Group. This year, she launched Thousand Voices Books, a co-venture with Random House Publishing Group, through which she publishes books across all its imprints. She has written ten books herself and is a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Laws of Love and Logic, by Debra Curtis
A STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL FROM JENNA BUSH HAGER’S NEW VENTURE, THOUSAND VOICES
In the serene town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Lily Webb is deeply in love with a charismatic boy, a college-bound quarterback whose spectacular athletic talents are matched only by his fierce devotion. But their dreams of a life together are cut short when his passionate protectiveness leads to an irrevocable choice—one that tears them apart and leads Lily down a path of heartbreak from which she may never recover.
Lily already knows the sting of loss, beginning with the death of her mother, a tragedy that left deep scars on both her and her gifted younger sister, Jane. Jane seeks escape in the abstract world of mathematics and quantum mechanics—when she can keep the demons that fuel her addictions at bay. As the years pass, Lily buries her twin griefs deep in her heart, finding solace and a new beginning with Marshall Middleton, a renowned ornithologist whose love is as steadfast as the migration patterns he studies. Yet the shadows of her past linger.
When the boy who was once everything to Lily reappears in her life, she struggles with questions around that terrible night in high school. Can she reconcile the wild wonderment of her first love with the comfort and safety of her second? Laws of Love and Logic explores love’s enduring power and the human spirit’s capacity for forgiveness and redemption.
June Baby, by Shannon Garvey
At seventeen, Ruth lost her mother to cancer, and her father, unable to handle his grieving daughter, shipped her off to Block Island with nothing but a name scribbled on the back of a receipt: Diana Beckett. Diana, a renowned photographer, took Ruth in for the summer, and Block Island became Ruth’s refuge, a place of beauty and creativity, a place where she could nurture her dreams of being a writer, a place where she could fall in love for the first time—with Diana’s nephew, Charlie.
Now, at twenty-seven, Ruth has spent the last ten summers living and working among the lucky few who get to vacation in this wealthy beach town, and the rest of the year just scraping by, yearning to return to the place where she feels safe and unburdened. But then Ruth’s world is upended by tragedy again. Desperate for an anchor, she reaches for the person she’s been pining for since she met him—Charlie—who has his own startling revelation to share. And when another surprise comes in the form of a box left to Ruth by Diana, its contents raise questions about just how well she knew the two women who raised her. Torn between what to believe about her past, and what her future might hold, Ruth is faced with another choice: does she dare to rewrite her story entirely?
Both a heartfelt coming-of-age story and a tender exploration of love and grief, set against a backdrop of golden dunes and seaside sunsets, June Baby shows us what it might look like to embrace a life shaped not by loss, but by possibility.
For more information about Debra Curtis (Laws of Love and Logic), visit penguinrandomhouse.com; for more information on Shannon Garvey (June Baby), visit shannongarveyauthor.com; and for more information on Jenna Bush Hager, visit today.com. To find out more about Deborah Goodrich Royce and her new release, Best Boy, along with information about the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com

This week, Joe is featuring Saxophonist Joe Lovano from his 2005 Blue Note Records recording, titled “Joyous Encounter.”

For Love Of A Song, a special concert by Debra Lynn and Bob O’Connell, is the subject of this week's program. We'll talk about the event, taking place Friday night at 7:30 on October 16th at the Music Mansion in Providence, and listen to music they performed and/or wrote. For more information and tickets, you can email debralynnmusic@gmail.com or call 401 408-0184

This week, Joe is featuring Pianist Keith Jarrett from his 2009 ECM Records recording, titled “Yesterdays."

This week, the program features Core Memory Concerts with Craig Maynard, Artistic Director. He'll talk about the upcoming season, which has been called one of the busiest in the area. We'll listen to some selections from the concerts that will be held throughout the fall. For more information, you can go to www.corememorymusic.com

This month, This Old Tree Doug introduces us to the Washington Monument Mulberry. Picture yourself visiting Washington, D.C. and walking the National Mall. Like a magnet, you're drawn to the Washington Monument, and you stroll up the gentle slope to the austere four-sided tower. The landscape is austere too, with no shade or vegetation taller than grass to speak of, except for one… lone…tree. You approach it and find a small tour group fixated on it, led by a man who is asking questions as he guides them around this amazing tree...

This week, Joe is featuring Organist Joey DeFrancesco from his 2002 Concord Records recording titled “Ballads and Blues.”

The Stonington, CT Porch Fest is the subject of this week's program, featuring Dan Brandl, Executive Director of The LaGrua Center, a partner in the event. We talk about the many musical acts involved, as well as the art show happening simultaneously. For more information, you can go to www.lagruacenter.org
 

In this week's Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Organist Jimmy Smith from his 1958 Blue Note Records recording titled “Softly As A Summer Breeze.”