"French Flair" EP #308

“French Flair”  episode #308, broadcasting Oct 28, 2013 at 9:30 pm on NYC Life, channel 25

In this episode, Frank Debonair gets trapped in a nasty French business. He receives a phone call from the French President who laments the fact that he has lost his hat . . .  Frank promises to retrieve it.  Who could have the audacity to commit such a heinous act?  To help him with this task, Frank sends a Private Book Investigator to question the following French related suspects:

The PBI interviews: Antoine Laurain, “The President’s Hat,” a book about the ordeal of the president’s hat; James MacNamus, “Black Venus,” a fictional rendition of the life of Charles Baudelaire’s muse; and Christopher Launois, “L’Americain,” a book about his French-born father, fame post world war II photographer, John Launois.

The Book World segment goes into depth at Mysterious Bookshop, down in Tribeca, and our host talks with Ian Kern too see what he is hiding from the public.

In the Pick of the Week: “Mastering the Art of French Eating,” by Ann Mah, “The Suicide Shop” by Jean Teulé, and “Where Tigers are at Home” by Jean-Marie Blas De Robles take the center stage.

The Book Case Team

"More Thrills Than Frills" EP #307

Episode #307  “More Thrills than Frills”

10-21-13, on NYC LIFE, channel 25, at 9:30 pm.

Dear Audience,

We are back with a new pack of six exciting episodes.  We had to take some time off to work on our new series, the Book Case Literary Salon, which we are currently shooting.

In tonight episode, we give the stage to women crime writers.  Frank Debonair introduce them as the next best things since Agatha Christie.  Recorded at Thriller Fest, 2013, you will meet Gayle Lynds, the co-founder of ITW, Heather Graham, Meg Gardiner, and Laura Caldwell.

For the Pick of the Week, we felt obligated to stay on theme with honoring all these hard at work female authors to promote some of the most intriguing releases this Fall.  These books are “Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, edited by Sarah Weinman”; “Seduction,” by M.J. Rose; “The Husband's Secret,” by Liane Moriarty, and “The Thinking Guide to Real Magic,” by Emily Croy Barker.

The Book Case Team       

First Book Case TV Salon, Oct 1st at the Underground

Dear Book Case TV aficionados,

We are in and rolling with our new season of Book Case TV Salon.

Tuesday October 1^st, 2013. Book Case Literary Salon, The Underground, 955 West End Avenue (corner with West 107^th St). 212-531-4759, www.bookcasetv.com/bookcase-salon/.  Subway: #1 to 103^rd or 110^th St. 7 pm; $20. Book Case TV host, Frederic Colier, takes to the stage to discuss “Swimming in the Fishbowl,” an evening with authors Slash Coleman, Ilana Garon, and Ophira Eisenberg, who will participate in a lively conversation about their newly published memoirs and diaries, and share a thought or two about their unique outlook on life.

Altered Ego Entertainment, the company behind Book Case TV, resumes its Book Case Salon, a literary initiative bringing together the best authors with a live audience.

Book Case Salon is a literary series, started in 2012, for those tired of impersonal entertainment that leaves them bored and empty.  Twice a month, the salon will offer book lovers, the opportunity to mingle with their favorite authors and engage in passionate and intimated dialogues.  The aim of the salon is to create a new but old-fashioned literary experience, writers and readers in conversation in the style of the Round Table at the Algonquin, and to curate important works from a wide range of authors.

Our first guests:  Slash Coleman, “The Bohemian Love Diaries.”  Descended from a posse of off-beat immigrants and raised in the capital of the Confederacy during the ’70 and ‘80s, young Slash sets out to find true love while remaining true to his creative spirit.  Unfortunately, he’s also his own worst enemy . . . Award-winning storyteller Slash Coleman produced and starred in the PBS special "The Neon Man."  He writes a blog for Psychology Today, is a regular contributor to Storytelling magazine and has appeared on NPR series, "How Artists Make Money."

Ilana Garon, “Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?” To understand the plight of our public school, political correctness needs to get taken out with last week’s cafeteria leftovers.  Ilana discards the teacher-hero illusion found in popular culture

Ilana Garon is an English teacher at a public high school in the Bronx.  She also writes about education issues for Dissent Magazine, Huffington Post, and Education Week.

Ophira Eisenberg, “Screw Everyone, Sleeping My Way to Monogamy.” Believing she could outsmart and out-bed them all, Ophira approached dating like a science experiment . . . Ophira will bare it out, saying yes to everyone and everything, hoping to find the “real thing” eventually . . .  A stand-up comedian, writer, and host of NPR's new weekly trivia show, "Ask Me Another," Ophira Eisenberg has appeared on the “Late Late show with Craig Ferguson,” Comedy Central, VH1, E!, and TV Guide Network.

Come and meet these unique authors in person, ask them questions about their creative process, their characters, their explorations of life, unveil their limitations, and go home inspired.

The Book Case TV Salon.  When: Tuesday Oct 1st, from 7 to 9 pm.  Where: at the Underground, 955 West End Avenue (corner with West 107^th Street). 212-531-4759, www.bookcasetv.com/bookcase-salon/ Subway: #1 to 103^rd or 110^th St. Tickets: $20. Must purchase ticket ahead to attend.  More info on www.bookcasetv.com

Book Case TV is a TV program airing on NYC Life, Mondays at 9:30 pm.  The program features authors from all walks of life, fiction and non-fiction, as well as personalities and stories from the publishing industry.

"Second Thrill Around," EP #306, Book Case TV

Dear Book Lovers

You can watch the trailer for the new Book Case TV,  Episode #6 “Second Thrill Around”  tonight on NYC Life 25, broadcasting Aug 19th, 2013, at 9:30 pm, click here below.

Frank Debonair is certain that most people who write and read genre fiction such as crime novels do not know the difference between a mystery and a thriller novel.  Frank hopes to clarify this misunderstanding.

On a visit to the annual Thriller Fest in NY, host Frederic Colier interviews Michael Connelly, whose new novel The Gods of Guilt will be released in the fall. 

He also sits down with Joseph Finder, whose novel Paranoia has hit movie screens nationwide. Michael Palmer, author of Political Suicide, takes the hot seat to talk about antibiotics and their increasing resistance to bacteria.  Finally John Lescroart discusses his novel The Ophelia Cut.

The Pick of the Week include: Sandstorm by Alan L. Lee,  The Silent Wife by  A.S.A Harrison, Seven for a Secret  by Lyndsay Faye, and Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker.

Looking forward

The Book Case Team

"Men on the Wire," EP #305

"Men on the Wire"  episode #305, Broadcast 08-12-13 at 9:30 pm on NYC Life channel 25.

Book private investigator Frank Debonair marvels at stories of courage.  But does he himself have any courage? Does investigating require him to be courageous?  He introduces his two guests who do not lack any of it.

The interview segment includes:  Philippe Petit, and his new book on knots, called “Why Knot?”  The book is replete with biographical anecdotes about all his famous climbs: the Eiffel tower, St John the Divine Cathedral, The World Trade Center.

The second guest is a war correspondent for numerous magazines and a filmmaker:  Sebastian Junger, whose book “War” retraces his year-long rotation with Tim Hetherington in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan.  "Restrepo," the Sundance Award Winner for best documentary was shot during this year-long experience.

Book World: Hutch Morton (Digital Premiere Publishing) discusses the reasons he created a brand new publishing company, just two years ago, especially when most people can self-publish and bypass publishers.

The Pick of the Week includes:  Daniel James Brown, “The Boys in the Boats.” Darryl Cunningham, “How to Fake A Moon Landing.” Jerry DeWitt, “Hope After Faith,” and  Jim Marrs, “Our Occulted History.”

The Book Case Team

"These Foreign Affairs," EP #304

Episode #4                        “These Foreign Affairs”

Broadcast Aug 5, 2013 at 9:30 pm on NYC Life, channel 25.

Book private investigator Frank Debonair reaches out beyond the borders to authors from other countries and books about foreign affairs, and all this without ever leaving New York.

Interviews include Ann Lee, the author of What the U.S. Can Learn From China, and Lori St John, who talks about how the Vatican helped her save a man’s life in Corruption of Innocence.  Nancy Kricorian, who was born in the U.S. and is of Armenian descent, narrates the French-Armenian resistance during WWII in All the Light There Was.

In the Book World segment, Canadian Marc Lefebvre from Kobo discusses the e-reading services company.

The Pick of the Week selections include: The Rent Collector by Camron Wright, We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, and Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller.  Matt Gross's “The Turk Who Loved Apples,” closes the episode.

The Book Case Team